Read the passage from “edgar allan poe.” in 1826, poe became a student at the university of virginia. although poe was an excellent student and did extremely well in latin and french, he started gambling and went into debt. poe later said that he began gambling because allan would not give him enough money to pay for his expenses. after allan refused to pay poe’s gambling debts, poe left the university and briefly returned home. in 1827, tired of quarreling with his foster father, poe left virginia for boston, massachusetts. although poe was no longer in school, he continued to write and published his first volume of poetry, tamerlane and other poems, that same year. at eighteen years old, poe was a published author, but he still needed to earn money, so he enlisted in the us army. after serving for two years, poe learned that his foster mother, frances, was ill. he rushed to richmond, virginia, to see her, only to learn that she had died from tuberculosis before he could arrive. what is most likely the intended effect of including the historical details about poe’s struggles? to persuade the reader to feel sorry for poe because of his difficult life to use poe’s own words, thoughts, and feelings to fully characterize him to emphasize the central idea that poe’s difficult life influenced his writing to paint a picture of the setting so that the time period is vivid to the reader