The Ernest Chronicler

If you are familiar with Edgar A. Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, then you might find this funny.  I thought it was hilarious.

For my tenth grade American Literature course, we have to read certain writer's works.  Right now we are just about wrapping up our unit on Poe.  We started out with The Raven, then The Cask of Amontillado, The Masque of the Red Death, then finally The Fall of the House of Usher.  I really like Poe, I'm not sure why because I don't really like the other romantic work we've read.  Maybe its dark romanticism I like... Anyway, we had to do group PowerPoint presentations on various literary concepts like alliteration, metaphors, and foreshadowing in Red Death, and House of Usher.

If you aren't familiar with The Fall of the House of Usher, its about the two surviving members of the inbreeding Usher family.  Roderick Usher is one of the two.  He has gone mad as he watches his sister Madeline's life slowly fade away.  He has become pale and wide-eyed and generally sick.

One of the groups in its presentation described him like this:
Usher is sick and impaled.

I don't know about you, but I think thats hilarious.