Edgar Allan Poe had a life marked with great sorrows. Having lost his parents to tuberculosis at a very young age, he was separated from his siblings and sent to live with his foster parents, John and Frances Allan. He shared a loving relationship with his foster mother, but not with his foster father. Just as it seemed that his life was improving when he fell in love and got married, his beloved wife Virginia died of tuberculosis. Two years later, Edgar Allan Poe also died in mysterious circumstances. Based on what you know and have learned about Edgar Allan Poe’s life, do you think he relates to his deranged narrators? Why or why not? Which aspects of his life seem similar to Gothic elements and conventions?

Plz im failing ela prompt: in a well-developed paragraph using the r.a.c.e. method, explain the allusion found in the advertisement. be sure to include an explanation of the character and how the allusion is used to sell the product. advertisement: excerpt from the christmas carol: use this information to deepen your understanding of the character. oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. the cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. a frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. he carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at christmas. race: use this organizational method to guide your writing- r – restate the prompt a – answer the prompt/questions c – cite evidence e – explain the evidence write your response here: