I guess I'll start off this week by saying I LOVE Edgar Allen Poe and have read most of his stuff. I tend to like the darker literature. Since I have already read "The Tell Tale Heart", I decided to focus my post on the other story.
I like cultural stories because it gives a look into another part of the world, even if I can't relate to it. This story also reminded me of last weeks story, where a main character is fantasizing about something throughout the story. This story was slightly universal, in that it's a mom telling her daughter the dangers of getting pregnant, and at the same time culturally specific, saying that if she did get pregnant out of wedlock she would be shamed and exiled and probably commit suicide. The ending was really sad with the ghost wandering around, and I found it interesting that the girl pitied her aunt while the rest of her family pretended she didn't exist. I guess we all sort of have that relative, the black sheep in the family that is ignored. Overall, I thought this was a universal story disguised as a cultural story.
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