Rue Morgue Vs The Bone Collector

After reading and watching both the book and the 1932 film ‘Murders in the Rue Morgue.’ It is evident that the film went mostly it’s own way, taking only small bits from Poe’s actual story, discarding many important details.

Edgar Allen Poe, who was a famous American writer, critic, and editor, was known for his countless tales and poems relating to horror and mystery. His diverse imagination captured every single reader’s attention and gave them both a positive and a weary feeling at the end of each of his stories. Edgar Allen Poe is known as the “Father of the Detective Story” among several his other nicknames. The background of Edgar Allen Poe is what the reader needs to be able to understand since that is what ultimately made Edgar Allen Poe who he really is and what gave him that mysterious author reputation. Several of his stories can indicate to many readers an idea of his background and some of the struggles he faced while growing up.

The dark and eerie tone of the murder story and its unusual setting contribute to the story’s theme of defense of one’s honor and avenging wrongdoing. The haughtiness and conceited attitudes of the two men create an extension of this theme in which Poe wants to show how far some men will go when they receive a blow to the ego. The story’s setting in the

The law enforcers are confused because they cannot identify how the criminal escaped. They declare the murders unsolvable; however, C. Auguste Dupin, a man who loves mysteries, steps into the scene to attempt to untangle the puzzle. While he is looking for clues to solve the mystery, the spectators and citizens provide insight into the story as well, setting the context and atmosphere that Poe wishes to narrate the story with. At last, after Dupin find clues that lead to a possible victim, including a fingerprint and a window that could be opened and closed from the outside, he deduces that the murderer was an orangutan. After the orangutan is convicted, the story slows down quickly, leading to the selling of the orangutan by the sailor who owned him and the increasing of the confidence that Dupin has in himself. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” is a strange short story because of its irregularity in characters. Not only does Poe make an orangutan the murderer in the story, he describes the peculiar attributes and characteristics that the policemen and the townspeople possess. Through the peculiar characters that he establishes in the short story, Poe gives an example of the American Dream. Dupin was a man who had fallen into poverty and destitution; however, by taking on the mystery and working diligently to solve a case that had been deemed as unsolvable, Dupin shows that redemption can be achieved through determination and confidence.

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most celebrated literary authors of all time, known for writing very suspenseful, dramatic short stories and a poet; is considered as being a part of the American Romantic Movement, and a lesser known opinion is he is regarded as the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. Most recognized for his mystery and macabre, a journey into the dark, ghastly stories of death, deception and revenge is what makes up his reputation. The short story under analysis is a part of his latter works; “The Cask of Amontillado”, a story of revenge takes readers into the mind of the murderer.

The last characteristic of a high-quality mystery book is that the solution is satisfactory to the reader. In ‘Favorite Father Brown Stories,’ each ending is unique. In the first and the third story, the ending solves the questions in the plot. But in the second story, the ending creates some more questions because there isn’t much of a mystery to resolve. In ‘Morbid Taste for Bones,’ there is a serious plot which is resolved nicely and to the characters satisfaction. Because the ending resolves the plot and doesn’t leave any major questions for the reader, it is

The infamous name of Edgar Allan Poe typically brings the image of murders and mysteries to mind. Edgar Allan Poe was one of the first American authors of the 19th century; he was a poet and writer and is acknowledged as the originator of detective fiction and the science fiction genre, and is considered a part of the American Romantic Movement. Poe’s career was as an American literary critic and theoretician; a fellow critic named James Russell Lowell called him "the most discriminating,

He had so much success in this area that many people see him as the “Father of the Detective Genre.” Poe invented the detective story through tales like Murders in the Rue Morgue, where he combined his expertise of death and investigation. Detective legends like Sherlock Holmes used the characters that Poe pioneered and followed in his footsteps of investigation (Giordano). Another major theme that Poe used was love and romance. He utilized this in ways that made the reader connect to the story more and feel a sense of

Edgar Allan Poe was an early American writer, poet, and critic whose life could be described as chaotic and troubled. Poe’s life was plagued by disappointments and surrounded with death and, by using these experiences in his writings, he captivated audiences. Nicknamed “Father of the Detective Story”, Poe’s writings are eerie yet easy to understand and have remained popular into the 21st century ("Edgar Allan Poe”). While he was considered part of the American Romantic Movement, the writings of Edgar Allan Poe still continue to frighten readers and inspire writers more than 160 years after his death.

Until Poe’s detective stories, there were no conventions of detective fiction. Poe puts in place the rules for writing a modern detective story. Poe captures the mindset of a detective in his Dupin short stories. Edgar Allan Poe uses the hands of an animal, a missing boat and a letter rack to show the value in deductive reasoning by criticizing simplicity in his portrayal of a detective

Edgar Allan Poe is one of those writers who try to horrify us about what is out there, as well as making us conscious of the terror within. He takes the readers to the exterior and gradually moves into the interior, as he talks about not what you are frightened off but the fear itself. These ideas are hindered upon through the short stories ‘The Murder in the Rue Morgue”, “The Man in the crowd” and “The Tell Tale Heart” as these were one of the first detective stories. Through these short stories Poe took the process of using clues to figure out the identity of a criminal and made the protagonist look at all the evidence and reason his way to the answer.

In Poe’s story ‘The Cask of Amontillado,” the subject and story line revolves around a murder. Unlike “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” the main character explains how he committed the murder. Without a detective in the story, the reader is challenged to solve the mystery at hand. Specifically these are called 'extensive mysteries', which are mysteries that “defy reason.” On the other hand,“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” would be classified as an “investigative mystery” which consists of an investigative case in order to discover and eliminate a mystery. Additionally, a story that does not have a clear solution, or reason why a criminal is doing what he or she did, makes a mystery that much more

Edgar Allan Poe, a prominent poet and writer in the 1800s, is known for his unique narration style. Through sentence structure and diction Poe creates a sensory reaction in his readers; for example, in “The Tell-Tale Heart” the readers feel the panic of the narrator as the sentences get shorter and choppier. Poe’s methods of influencing the reader’s emotions are not just limited to these practices. In his stories of mystery and macabre Edgar Allan Poe has developed many unique characters with definitive traits who navigate their way through the author’s intriguing plots and storylines. These writing methods are applied to Edgar Allan Poe’s mystery story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, in which the author establishes the story through a peripheral narrator, maintains the characterization of his protagonist, and utilizes diction unique to each aspect of the story. Poe’s decisions create a mysterious suspense for the reader as the story unfolds.

What makes a short story great? Great characters? A great plot? Whatever it is, it does not have as much time to develop as a novel does. However, in limited space, author Edgar Allan Poe creates a brilliant, suspenseful, and brain wracking story. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" begins by comparing the analytical mind to the game of chess. Eventually, Poe ties in the occurrences of a bizarre incident with a flashback to 18--. Through analyzing the scene and using clues and witnesses' testimonies, a character of great analytical power solves a murder mystery that no one else can even remotely get a grasp on. The story may sound ordinary at first, but upon the completion of the novel, a doubtful reader can change his mind. Edgar Allan Poe's

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the best writers of any generation; he has contributed many devices such as “ratiocination” to the literary world (Corneilus 6). Poe had and used his own writing methods and he had many rules and guidelines to follow when writing a short story or even a detective story. He used the tragic events of his childhood, and used that for “fuel” to create the plot lines in his stories. He used the dark and somber events of his childhood and turned it into literary art to be remembered for many years to come. Instead of Poe taking his dark childhood out on other people, he put it into words, stories with so much effort put into it. Poe wanted people to follow certain guidelines when writing a short story; if you did not follow these guidelines he wouldn’t consider it a book of the short/detective story genre. He has written many well-known books such as “The Raven”, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, and many poems such as “The Pit and the Pendulum”. Poe is also considered the acclaimed father of the short story and also the detective story, with his story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”. Edgar Allen Poe has created what was known then and today as the short/detective story; he had his own methods to creating these stories and shared his ideas with the world.