Masque of the Red Death Paper

Masque of the Red Death

                In the story “Masque of the Red Death”, by Edgar Allan Poe, the color violet has a symbolic meaning beyond the story. The meaning of the color goes beyond the story to explain a stage in a person’s life.  In Poe’s story, there were seven rooms in the hallway. Each room was a different color to symbolize a different stage in a person’s life. The first room was the color blue to symbolize new life. The second room was the color purple to symbolize youth. The third room was green to symbolize being energetic. The fourth room was the color orange to represent the middle of a person’s life. The fifth color was white to represent aging and wisdom. The sixth color was violet to represent pain, royalty, and a start to the end of life. The seventh color was black to represent death and the end of life. Focusing on the color violet, the color means the start to the end of life.  

            The violet room was the second to last room in the castle and was close to the black room. In the last room in the story, the black and red room, there was an ebony clock. The ebony clock rung once every hour.  Every person in the story stopped what they were doing when the clock rang. The reason for this was that every time the clock rang, the clock was symbolizing that there was less and less time for the people to live. The ebony clock basically represents the clock of a person’s life and how much life that a person has left to live. If the clock had colors on the face of the clock the colors would be in order, blue first. Purple would be the second color. Orange would be the forth color. The fifth color would be white. Violet is the sixth color on the ebony clock. Black is the seventh and final color on the ebony clock at the end of the hall in the castle. Violet symbolizes a late time in a person’s life a time from 61 years old to 85 years old. The color violet symbolizes a start of decline in life. The violet room was th second to lat room in the west end of the castle. The color, violet, also symbolizes a fragileness and people who are older get fragile. The color violet is also associated with royalty. People who are from royalty are very much respected. Also older people are respected, so that makes them like royalty.

            This color relates to my life in a few ways. First, the color violet represents older people. It represents a close to the end of life. The color violet is a mix between two colors, purple and red. The color red represents death and the end of life so, when it is mixed with purple, it represents the closeness to the end.  This color relates to my life because I have a lot of people in my family who know a lot because they are close to the end of their lives. They can pass on their knowledge of life to me.  This is how the color violet relates to me.

Book Adevrtisement

"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" is an odd but interesting tile for a book. The book was written by John Boyne. This book is about a young boy, named Bruno, that stumbles upon a fence that separates a Jewish concentration camp from his outside world. Bruno meets a young boy, who lives on the inside of the camp and the boy tells Bruno what it is like in the camp and how bad the concentration camp treats Jewish people. People should read this book because it is very moving and emotional. People want to read this book because it is very accurate about what happened  in the Holocaust and it is a must read for anyone who is interested in history.

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O'Henry Research

O'Henry's real name was William Sydney Porter.
He was born and grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Only attended school untill age 15 and dropped out to work at his uncle's store
 O. Henry was charged with embezzling funds from the First National Bank of Austin in Texas in 1896
While in prison he started to write Short stories.
When he was released from prison, O. Henry moved to New York City in 1901
 He published over 500 short stories
One of O. Henry’s most famous stories was “The Gift of the Magi”`
He was considered one of the best story writers of his time
He died in the year 1910

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Egar Allan Poe questions

1. Edgar Allan poe was born January 9, 1809 in Boston. He died on October 7, 1849.
2. When he was young both of Edgar's parents didn't raise him.
3. Poe called Virginia his hime state.
4. The famous military academy West Point expelled Poe.
5. He married Virginia Clemm who was thirteen.
6. I think he is a little to old to be married to Virginia because she was so young.
7. The Raven was published in January of 1845
8. "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was the first of his detective stories.
9. "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat" were written in late 1843 published in 1845.
10. "The Tell-Tale Heart" was about a man bieng tortured and slowly killed. In "The Black Cat" a man thinks his cat knows about him murdering someone so he tries to kill the cat.
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I haven't read many of Edgar Allan Poe's stories. From what I have read his stories are very creepy and they usually end wih death. He has very strong emotions attached to his stories. I really havenn't had any personal experiences with his stories.