The Premature Burial By Edgar Allan Poe

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Part A-
In the story The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe. The main theme is that you can face and overcome your fears if you don't let your fears control you. During the whole story the narrator was transfixed on his fears all the time. The narrator was afarid that people would think that he was dead when he really was alive and bury him alive. At the end of his story he loses his fears by just sleeping. Some speficic elements to develop the theme is fast paced writing, lots of puntations, and short sentences to get the wow factor in a fear themed story.

Part B-
In the Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe, the main theme throughout the story is that you can face and overcome your fears if you don't let fear control you. I think to get

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