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When doing research on Edgar Allan Poe, reading on how he grew up and his life, made sense on why most of his stories he has written are dark and twisted stories. Well at least the three short stories we have read in class were dark and twisted. Poe had a few family deaths in his life time of family members he was close with. With death being kind of a big part of his life explains some of the parts and themes of his writings. For example in The Tell-Tale Heart the story was based on the narrator plotting on killing an old man that lived his apartment building. Throughout the story there were a lot of weird and dark things going on and through the narrators head that'll make the reader stop and think who would think of and write a story like this. Also, another example of Poe writing about some type of dark twisted things was in his story The Black Cat. The narrator of this story violently mistreated his pets and even his wife. Eventually the narrator dies which once again goes back to Poe having some type of death one of his stories. I'm not saying that Poe is the only writer who has deaths in his story, there are plenty of writes who do. Poe is just a writer who writes about deaths constantly along with other dark, weird things which leads us to believe he grew up with a dark mind. I also noticed in The Black Cat that the narrator gets married at a young age, which I connected to Poe getting married to his young thirteen year old cousin, in which I learned while doing research on Poe.