The raven citizenship and commitment

This essay is meant to discuss the story written by author Edgar Allan Poe, called “The Raven”. and compare my analysis to two values, which are citizenship and commitment. This narrative follows the mind of who we presume must be a man, in the process of grieving for his lost one, a woman who’s name is Lenore, who encounters an ominous situation in which a bird, most specifically a Raven, comes into his study, and the main character, weirded out by the situation follows to ask the bird his name, but this one only responds to his questions with the words “nevermore” this being said several times by the mysterious and dark animal tends and ends up driving our main character to an obsessive state of rage and confusion. This story surrounds the state of grief, where we can not accept the person that we loved so much is gone forever, and this tends to create a grief and guilt that in this case, can not escape the narrators mind, and who is constantly haunted by the memory of the one he lost and loved so much. In several occasions, we can assume that the raven is a physical representation of this feelings, Edgar Allan Poe solidified this confusing mental state into an animal, and with this explains the pain of grief. In my opinion, the two values don't really represent anything in the story. Their meanings are very unlike what the theme of the story is about, they don't seem to be mentioned once in the story, and Edgar Allan Poe was a terror writer, not someone who would use this values in a story often, or highlight them in such a way. The excerpt is way too small to say that the story does not include or allude to this values, but the piece we are going to study has no obvious mention of them. First i will be giving examples of correct use of this values in a narrative, then, i will give reasons on my this story was not meant to include them, and then i will present my conclusion on the subjects. With the value of citizenship, I can say this one is the furthest away from the story as possible. A correct use of this value in the story would be if the main character would have mentioned the country he is from, and would have very visible representation of that country’s culture, tradition and mannerism. Citizenship is the value of acknowledging one's identity from the place they were born, but this has little to no relationship with the story. The next value, commitment, would be used correctly in a story if the main character would have shown a relationship with someone, or talked to someone in the story, but we can observe that his state of grief has consumed him so much that he gets startled when he hears a sound coming from his entrance, suspecting someone had come to visit him, this implies he doesn't get visited by people very often, and one can not be committed if one does not have relationships with others. This type of story is meant to make you reflect on an internalized emotion, something that is hard to explain, and can be understood through metaphors like the Raven, also make you feel the characters emotions even if they are as scary as the ones in the story, not teach you values regarding caring for others, it takes a more personal point of view.  In conclusion, these values are not present in the story at all, and can’t be learned from it.