Writer Response

What kind of intro are you using? Why?

I am using a standard effective intro that restates the prompt and introduces the purpose of the essay. Currently, mine is sort of a work in progress. My brain was a bit burned out, and I’d like to go into more depth about how the narrator affects and is affected by the events in both stories before I move on to describe each specific story.


What do you like best about your paper right now? Why?

I am planning on using a lot of quotes to back my paper up, and like that it will eventually be very specific. Once I got a hold of the concept that the prompt was trying to convey, I found a lot of examples to support it throughout both stories that I am looking at. Poe likes to describe things, and his narrators generally have a very strong voice, so it was easy to find what I was looking for, as well as incorporate them into my paper.


What would you work on if you had more time? Why? Try and be specific and please, no comments about grammar.

I would have liked to go more in depth with the two stories, more specifically the character of both narrators. I find them to be interesting and worth looking at more closely, but for the sake of length, I had to be very picky with what I put into the paper. I am still trying to figure out the ‘why’ part of the prompt, and hope I’ll figure it out by the final draft. The prompt leaves so many things to talk about between these two stories.