I was so pleased when my youngest son, Benjamin, came home from school today, reciting the opening lines to The Raven. I turned and said to him, "Hey, that is The Raven!"
He told me they read two "interesting" (his choice of words) stories in school today by Edgar Allen Poe. I asked what the other one was.
He said he couldn't remember the name of the other story, but "It was really creepy. It had to do with this guy and how he didn't like another guy's eye, so he killed him. But he kept hearing his heart beat even after he killed him and I think he went crazy."
I said, "That story is The Tell-Tale Heart. What did you think?"
He looked at me with those big blue eyes, and said, "It was creepy!"
I think Poe would be please to know, 162 years after his death, a twelve year old boy thinks his stories are creepy. Talk about timeless.
Happy Halloween!
He told me they read two "interesting" (his choice of words) stories in school today by Edgar Allen Poe. I asked what the other one was.
He said he couldn't remember the name of the other story, but "It was really creepy. It had to do with this guy and how he didn't like another guy's eye, so he killed him. But he kept hearing his heart beat even after he killed him and I think he went crazy."
I said, "That story is The Tell-Tale Heart. What did you think?"
He looked at me with those big blue eyes, and said, "It was creepy!"
I think Poe would be please to know, 162 years after his death, a twelve year old boy thinks his stories are creepy. Talk about timeless.
Happy Halloween!
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