Edgar Allan Poe

1) Edgar Allan Poe’s Early Childhood

Poe was left orphan at age 3, his mother died when he was really young, so he went to live with foster parents. They were a well-family John Allan was his foster dad. He felt loved by his foster mother but not by John, he didn’t want him at first but since they were childless they took him. He agreed to pay his school so he was in various schools. After a while his foster dad stopped paying his collage intuition and removed him from his will. 

2) What tragedies marked Poe’s life?

The death of his parents when he was just 3 years old and that he was in love with a girl named Annabelle Lee when he was 14, but he was never able to be with her so he was sad and depressed.

3) Where did he work (what cities)?

Virginia, NYC, Philadelphia,and Richmond.

4) Describe Poe´s literary legacy (whom has he influenced)?

The writings of Edgar Allan Poe have helped fuel the works of such Continental Philosophers and thinkers as Jean Paul Satre, Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and perhaps most notably Jacques Laquan.

The French Symbolists, he was one of the first persons to write detective fiction and horror.

How does my environment influence me?

Everything around us influences us in many ways, we may not realize it does, but it does. Where you live, who you’re with and what you see in your everyday life changes how you act and react to different things. In Guatemala, I think mainly every citizen is afraid when they leave their homes in the morning because they don’t know if they’re going to be back to see their families at night. That is because of all the violence and breaking of the law, that’s how I feel. I’m afraid every morning when I leave home because I don’t know if I’m going to see my parents again. I was raised by my two parents and they taught me how to difference the right and the wrong, that’s why I am who I am today. I hang out with people who I know are going to lead me to positive things and not to make mistakes. I was taught from very little what were the most important valors. That’s why the environment affects people, if they were born in a place where the people around them have no valors and are not responsible, they are going to have those bad people be their models, they’ll follow them and grow up being like them. That is why Guatemala is they way it is, If their parents have not education, their kids are going to be just like them.

 

-Johan

Fuast Legend

The Faust Legend.

Where did this legend originate?

• Staufen, Germany (Southwest Germany)
• 1875-1880

Describe the legend in two sentences.

• Faust was a really succesfull scholar but unsatisfied with his life. Because of that he makes a pact with the devil of exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and pleasure.

Name two well known versions of this legend.

• Goethe’s Faust
• Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus

Have you read or seen a film version of the faust legend?

No, I had never heard of the faust legend before but now that I’ve read about it I’m interested of knowing more about it and watching the film in Miss P’s class.