Has Anyone Read The Man Who Was Poe?

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I Need A 3/4-page summary on The Man Who Was Poe and I havent read it yet. Can someone please help me? It would be appreciated.:smack:

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It can be a page or a little over

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hee hee hee.

We’re not the “free homework help” board, kid.

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If you really must cheat, it’s probably a better idea to just use Google than subject yourself to mockery here. The answers you get will probably be just as good, and at least you’ll get answers.

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The butler did it.

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No, no, it was the window washer. Haven’t you even read the Mad Magazine parody?

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Don’t forget to mention the symbolism of the cornfields…that’s kind of important.

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You’re all being jerks.

I’m disgustipated and ashamed of ewe all.
Let’s try to help th’ kid, shall we?

The Man Who Was Poe By Avi

It’s a semi-autobiographical tale of Edgar Allen Poe, and his detective adventures. When Poe was young, he founded Scottland Yard, but now, as the book opens, Poe is alone and forgotten, slowly dying.

But on his sickbed, Poe is astonished as a young boy enters his sick room:

"Please, Mr Poe! You must help me! Mah girl Becky has been kidnapped! Huck is trying to save her, but he can’t by himself. The Artful Dodger is just too smart. Only you have the tremendous brains to save him. "

Poe, roused by this heartfelt plea, got out of his bed to help Tom rescue Becky (who turns out to be The Artful Dodger’s illegitimate daughter that he had with Thuvia, Maid of Mars) and thus begins a glorious chase, from Doyle’s The Lost World, to Baum’s Oz Cameron’s Mushroom Planet to it’s tremendous, earth-shattering conclusion inside Wonka’s chocolate factory *forty years before the Oompa-Loompas would join in.

I’m not sure about the inclusion of Little Eva from Uncle Tom’s Cabin as Nigger Jim’s cousin, though. I liked her ninja-esque skills, but at the same time, I thought she distracted from the main thrust of the plot.

The best part was Dodger’s horrific fate at the hands of one of Wonka’s pet Vermicious Knid: a knock-your-socks-off ending!

Truly a book for the ages.

Fenris

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This book is by Avi? (BTW, who agrees that a mere print celebrity shouldn’t be tring to pull-off the one name gig?)

You’ll get extra credit for referencing Avi’s other books–teachers love to see that they’ve excited you enough to go to the library to read everything you can find by the author. I think you could do a real sweet compare and contrast between Poe and Mr. Ocax.