Poe's Masqued Death

    We all know how awful and terrifying the "red death" was.  It was a time that no one forgot.  It was just as tragic as many wars if you ask me.  Fighting with an awful illness is as bad as anything you would have to go through in the war.  With that, you can understand how truly horrible this plague was.

    Poe has an incredible way of portraying this, how serious the red death was.  He took something incredible terrifying and deranged and made it this work, something incredible and amazing.  In every story, we look for something to pull us in.  Something that will make us WANT to keep reading.  Poe is able to pull that off from the beginning.  Danger and terror as well as trouble and mishap is what reels people in.  When there is so much going on you cant help but wonder what could possibly happen next.

    Poe keeps you wondering and curious.  Youre on the edge of your seat trying to find an answer to everything.  Its a great story.  Any story that can grab you and pull you in and manage to somehow keep you there is absolutely a great story.

    This is the second or third time I have read this, and surprisingly enough, I get caught and pulled in every single time.  It's like I never read it before.  A story that can do that must be good. 

    Although this is a tragic story, behind the tragic and horror there is meaning.  Like any story there is background info that means a lot more to people that were there and experienced it, or people that know people that went through something like this.  It's a great story.  Tragic, but knowledgeable.

http://jerz.setonhill.edu/EL237/2009/10/poe_the_masque_of_the_red_deat/