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Murders In The Rue Morgue Essay

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Sometimes people in the dark become afraid. Afraid that something is coming and they think that something is wrong. Something is off. That is what horror stories make thier reader feel. Something is not like it should be. Many of Edgar Allen Poe’s stories are horror stories like this. Not all are like this however. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” is one of these one that is not horror. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” is not horror because there is no supernatural events, the reader cares about the characters and the characters know more than the reader. One way “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” does not fit the classification of horror is there is nothing supernatural. Neither Dupin nor the narrator believe in supernatural things. Dupin said “It is not too much to say that neither of us believes in præternatural events” leading the reader to expect that Dupin and the narrator believe there is a way to explain the murder without supernatural events. Therefore the reader does not expect anything supernatural to happen. …show more content…

The reader knows most of the character’s names except for the narrator. The reader also knows Dupin and the narrators history together to some extent. This makes the person reading the book feel like they know the characters and while the reader may not care about the characters, they have the opportunity to care about what happens to the people in the book. In horror the reader does not care because they do not know enough about the characters to care. An example of this is when Dupin says to the narrator “Be ready with your pistols,” the reader wonders what will happen, will there be a gunfight or will someone attack Dupin and the narrator or will something completely different happen. People reading the book do not want them to die because the reader can care about both Dupin and the

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