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MS. Found in a Bottle Study Guide

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by Edgar Allan Poe
About 9 pages (2,732 words)
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This is another first-person narrative. He starts off by writing that: "I have often been reproached with the aridity of my genius; a deficiency of imagination has been imputed to me as a crime." (pg. 78) He goes to great lengths to describe the realistic nature of his character as a way of gaining credibility for his unbelievable tale. Poe's narrator looks deeper into his own self throughout the narrative and grows ashamed of his former self: "When I look around me I feel ashamed of my former apprehensions." (pg, 92)

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This story takes place on two different ships; the first is a ship on its.....

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