Native American Myth Questions:

1.       Are there any supernatural/immortal powers that are evident in the myth?  If so, please describe.

          - Yes there are super natural powers in this story because the Red Indians believed that spirits were involved with everything about life including animals, weather, people, crops, ect. 

2.       What tribe is this myth from?  What region of the country is this tribe located?

          - The Red Indians of North America, Canada, and the Arctic bits. 

3.       Summarize the myth.

         - This native american myth is based upon the belief that living close to nature and close to spirits is the best thing that you can do. The Red Indians often believed that they had unlimited spiritual world and that they should use it the best way possible. Super natural spirits in this myth are described as being everywhere. They believed that spirits were involved in all aspects of  life including nature, animals, and people. 

4.       Describe the situation in which this myth was shared.  Describe what you see when you see this myth?

       - I believe this myth was passed down through the Red Indian tribe to describe how they stayed close to nature and spirits even when there were "white men" pushing them to become like them. 

Edgar Allan Poe

5 Personal Life:
- His father left the family early in Edgar's life.
- His mother passed away when he was only three. 
- Edgar Allan Poe turned to gambling to make money to cover his living expenses but ended up in debt.
- Edgar was adopted by John Allan (and his wife who couldn't have children), a tobacco merchant of Scottish extraction. 
- Both of Edgar's biological parents were very successful actors of their time. 
5 Professional Life
- Edgar Allan Poe was a short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor.
- Edgar Allan Poe went to the University of Virginia in 1826
- He joined the army under a false identity in 1827-1829 to avoid debt collectors. 
- In 1833 Poe got a job at the Southern Literary Messenger.
- In 1845 His poem "The Raven" appeared in the New York Evening Mirror in January, and was an instant success with both readers and critics.
- 5 Romanticism 
- In May of 1836 he secretly married his first cousin Virginia Clemm.
- On January 30, 1847 his wife Virginia died from long term tuberculosis.
- After Virginia's death Poe's life-long struggle with depression and alcoholism worsened
- Edgar wrote several romantic 'love' poems that seemed to be based upon the life and death of his wife Virginia. 
- Virginia expressed her devotion to her husband in a Valentine poem now in the collection of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, and Poe celebrated the joys of married life in his poem “Eulalie.”



Edgar Allan Poe. Image from: http://welcometobaltimorehon.com/images/poe1.jpg
Sources
- http://www.biography.com/people/edgar-allan-poe-9443160
- http://wps.ablongman.com/long_kennedy_lfpd_9/22/5820/1489992.cw/index.html
- http://www.poemuseum.org/life.php