Poe has never really hooked me into his writing, and
I went into reading The Unparalleled
Adventure of One Hans Phall not having high hopes in regards to me liking
the story. After I finished reading the story I ended up liking the plot more
than I thought I would, which was nice. I might be a late blooming Poe fan.
I
really think this would be a good story to teach plot with, but because the
story is pretty long and a little bit wordy, the upper high school grades could
use this story to deepen their knowledge of plot. By deepening their knowledge
of plot they will have a better knowledge of how to find the plot line.
A comparison that could
be made between is between “The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Phall” and “From the Earth to the Moon,” by
Jules Vernes. The students could read pieces that are selected by the teacher,
so there are some good opportunities to compare and contrast certain aspects of
both stories. The students could read through both pieces of the selected text
and find characteristics that both stories have, no matter is they compare or
contrast the two stories. Then the students could compare and contrast the
characteristics they found in each story.
This is a good piece of
text to read to really get a grasp on what science fiction writing is like.
Edgar Allen Poe does a nice job of using this genre to write a story that grabs
the reader attention. The students could analyze what pieces of this story in
general are science fiction and what makes this story specifically a science
fiction story. This would be a good chance for the students to explore a genre
that they don’t usually get read, it’s usually the science book, or the history
book, or the math book, switching to this genre might engage the students,
because it isn’t the retelling of a historical event, it’s a made up story that
is obviously not a narrative of someone’s real life event.
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