I know you dont know me but I really need your help....I'm a normal teen that is not really filled with the vocabulary that Allan Poe uses.......for this reason I'm asking you to help me with summaries of THE MAN THAT WAS ALL USED UP, LIGEIA, HOP-FROG, and the MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE.....I really need your help I need this by MARCH 31 2002 these stories are going to be in my final and i really don't want to take the class next year. hopefully you will help me out......... if you are willing to help me out you can send me an email at

silver_knight226@hotmail.com

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2002

Answers

Nineteenth century prose and vocabulary can be trying. Try not to be dismayed by the flowery expansivness and philosohical diversions. Be comforted too that not all Poe's contemporaries understood his references(some of which were made up)and sometimes are merely there for effect. The MOOD Poe creates you can get into, the plot you can keep hold of and it ties together neatly. If you summarized the plot it usually can be done in few short sentences. if you concentrated on the mood and the impression of the story(what Poe is trying to put foremost) you would find you are not such a bad reader. In high school I thought I was getting it- with some difficulty, but no one got me over the intimidation hurdle. Poe was not writing for kids but his audience were magazine readers of all classes. he never dumbed down but increased the literary level of the popular ficition into real works of art. Appreciating the art is another stage in getting at thses stories. "The Man who..." is Poe's typical black humor, his most Twain-like story of comic and grisly exagerration. The veteran is perhaps the model fiction writer, literally using himself up in the process of telling a shocking story of his gradual transformation into a superficial construct of limb replacement. Ligeia is his most artful story of return from the dead, the old life taking the body of the new as the horror struck husband watches in total helplessness. This is Poe's haunting by the dead, memories that render him "mute, motionless, aghast. "Rue Morgue" is the first modern detective story where the French amateur Dupin leads his companion through the mystery of a murder within a locked room using the METHOD of detection and brillian intuition superior to common logic and police methods. But "Hop Frog" the medieval tale of the vengeful dwarf, apparently so short, brutal and easy has the most difficulty for contained within this bitter late tale is a sardonic retrospective of many of Poe's works. If you know any you might see glimpses of them in the story- usually turned on their head(sometimes literally)as Poe allegortically thumbs his nose at his "enemies", the world and the demands upon him to entertain his publishers and audience. His last joke.

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2002

Since I have no life anyways, I'll give you a more detailed summary...

"Hop Frog"- Hop Frog is the name of a dwarf in medievil times - the court jester for a very gratuitous king who prefers satire, humor, and practical jokes, accompanies by seven wise minsters. Now, Hop Frog is the king's favorite jest, because he looks funny (dwarfism, and crippled) and is very valued by the king, because "days are rather long at court than elsewhere", and jesters speed up time somewhat. Hop Frog's legs are severely deformed, but his upper body has tremendous relative strength, and he performed many acts of manual dexterity for the king, where climbing was involved. He, and a girl (named Tripetta) were kidnapped from a faraway land (they are both of the same race), and were brought to the king's court. In those close confines, Hop Frog and Tripetta became sworn friends. Now, the king decided to have a masquerade (costume party) and whenever these things happened Hop Frog and TRipetta were brought in for entertainment. Long story short, Hop Frog tells the king and his ministers about a cultural dance from his times, where the people are chained together, covered in tar, and dance crazily. The king and his ministers take it upon themselves to do this dance, the "eight chained ourang outangs" (hence the alternative name of this story). At the ball, the king and his cronies all dance in, then Hop-Frog gets them under the chandelier, hooks them on, and raises the chandelier, and burns them (remember, they're covered in tar). Then he jumps out a window to meet Tripetta and the two go off.

-- Anonymous, April 24, 2002

Hy. i am not good in english but i have to refere edgar ellen poes's "the murders in the rue m." i read this book but it was really hard to understand. please write me a ditailed summary, in don't know what to do!!!!!! Thanks!

-- Anonymous, October 19, 2002

I am also looking for a summery of murderis in rue morgue. I have read this story and also find it confusing. Please help me find a good summary!!! Thanks

-- Anonymous, March 29, 2003

i think you are all dumb asses cuz foxis's answer got eraced and she had the best one i agree with her you ARE ALL DUMBASSES amd like we are in grade 8 so ya we are smarter than you so fu*k off

-- Anonymous, November 10, 2003

o my gosh! this sux!! i just found out that i cant talk to my boifrend for like 2months cuz he went and got himslef grounded!! Rar! I am so mad right now!! oh! by the way....i need help with a summary on the murders tot he rue morge..or watever its called! I dont wanna read it! Help me out?! e mail me!! my sn is karmakitten28

-- Anonymous, November 15, 2003

HI?

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2003

this is funny , dont we suck?

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2003

Well guys i just finished reading "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." In summary the whole story evolves around a murder that took place in the Rue Morgue. Duplin who is the "detective" sets out to find out who done it? He uses his common sense and "reason" to find out that an orango tan escaped from a sailor and was attracted by the light from this particular house in the Rue Morgue and entered and found to women and slaughtered them. He wedges one in the chimney and the other is spraweld out on the ground. Anywho to make a short story short, Duplin ends up finding the sailor and practically hold him to gun point to tell him what happened and the sailor spills and tells him that the brute escaped and that he followed him to the place where the murder took place and left in fear of what would happen to him. I really hope this helps someone out there!!!

Peace out

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-- Anonymous, December 14, 2003

this is stupid. if you read the top you would see that all of the actual summarys came in after the date who ever needed them. it was a waste of time. any whay the damm story is less that 10 pages on a mini book. What the hell? you couldnt have read for tem minutes and gotten it over with??? You are all stupid!!!!!

-- Anonymous, January 17, 2004

Well the story is a bit odd all that language but its about the death of 2 hoes who keep snoopin around and a guy as well i believe that didn't know for his own good, to stay AWAY. If it was a black person they wouldn't be caught dead there in the first place but some whities had to go and get killed... owell

-- Anonymous, January 30, 2004

yo..i gotta read this shit now..and im in college....somebody got a better explanation...this aint no damn book report

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2004

HOW WAS EDGAR ALLEN POE INSPIRED TO WRITE!!!!

-- Anonymous, September 09, 2004