Unit Three Dark Romanticism and Realism Lit-Comp 11/ Howard Gartrell

a. They believed that everyone was absolutely pure and that each individual is a part of God.
b. They believed that people's thoughts and intuition were the voice of God.
c. They did not believe in institutions like government because they thought the individual human mind was the strongest power in the universe.

I feel that I'm closer to a Dark Romantics than a Transcendentalists because its true that people can be evil, insane, and impure because GOD doesn't see everybody being perfect.

Basically, I thought that the story was good but it was too long. It would've still been a good story if he would've took out the 8th paragraph and continued in full detail.
One thing that he did in the story that really caught my eye is that, he felt aloft of anger with his first cat and then he more anger when brought the second cat home. Another part in the story that caught my eye is when he came home one night, his cat inflicted a wound on his hand with its claws and teeth. Then, he said that he possessed him. He said that he then grabbed the animal by the throat and cut out its eye with a pen-knife.
I took from my waistcoat-pocket a pen-knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket!

It shows that if the Transcendentalists were in this situation, they would've still believed that GOD would've controlling the man and he would've not committed the crimes that he committed and it would still be true that people can be evil, insane, and impure because no body's perfect.
"The fury of a demon instantly possessed me." This quote shows that demons can possess people and that Poe is arguing on the Dark Romantics side.

The Raven
One midnight while he was nodding and napping, he heard someone tapping at his chamber door. It was a December and ghosts were walking the floor. He heard the curtains making rustling noises and he felt terrors that he never felt before and he felt his heart beating kind of fast. Eventually, his soul grew stronger and then he apologized to the man or woman and explained to them that he was napping. He stood in the darkness wondering, fearing, doubting , and dreaming dreams that he never dreamed before. He turned back to the chamber door and the tapping he heard before grew louder. When he opened his chamber door, a raven flew in and landed above his chamber door. After while he the raven what its name was and the raven responded saying nevermore. Then, he started having thoughts that no living being was yet blessed of seeing a bird or beast above his chamber door with such name as "Nevermore." The raven still sat lonely on the placid burst.

A symbol is something that stands for a much larger idea.
"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!--prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us--by that God we both adore.

Section 2 Realism:
Basically they are lots of parts of realism in this story but the main part is, in the beginning of this story its talks about this girl or woman is crying while in her sister's arms. She sat back with her head thrown back on the cushion of the chair being quite motionless.
She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams.The problem that she wanted to solved is, the realists didn't want people to use their imaginations and picture things that were real.

Frederick Douglass wrote this story to show the things that he went through while he was staying with his master or slave owner. The things that his master did to him, well you can say that he got tired of going those things and he wanted to live a normal life like everybody else.

One example that I can use for realism is the song " Treat Her Like a Lady" by Joe ("Tell me when was the last time, you brought her roses home from work, Now see what's old to you, is just like new to the next man.What you don't do for her, she'll find somebody else who can")because it is basically saying that if you don't treat your woman like she needs to be treated, then somebody else will treat her better than you did or can.

Basically when I was, I got into a lot of trouble. I didn't live like a normal kid was supposed to live because we were going through a lot of problems that involved money. I learned the streets at a young age and yes I was involved in the drug business, so that's how I made my money. In the streets, it was rough and the nights were lonely and cold. Some people thought I was crazy but it didn't care because I was happy that my family was taken care of. A lot of people thought that I was gonna die in the streets but I had been out there to long to stop and let my family keep going through problems.I finally settled down and started living right when I turned 14 and I been living right ever since.

Some people didn't picture to be a bad kid who did things when I was little but they were to go back in time with me then they wouldn't think that I was crazy and they would see the things that I went through to survive and this is why my story is an example of realism.

I show evidence by writing my own short story and I provided information to support my story and it was very fun to complete this assignment.