Demons- Poe Prediction Piece.

In the first six paragraphs of Poe's Silence- A Fable,  The main character is visited by a demon.  This demon talks about a place worse than any human has ever visited.  He also states that the only way a human might have visited this place is in a dream. This leads me to believe that the main character is dreaming.  Since Poe is the father of horror stories, I do not believe that he will use the cop-out ending of the narrator waking up.  I predict that this story will be an irony.  So far, a demon has visited the main character, which is not possible in a world that is not dystopian.  The main character is not in control as the demon is obviously overpowering him with fear, especially when the main character is suddenly in the horrible place.  He is no longer in control when he is involuntarily transported to evil places.  I do not predict that this story will turn out well when a demon is in control and the setting is the evilest place on earth. 

There are also lots of clues in the symbolism of the story.  If I am correct in my theory of the narrator being asleep, this story probably takes place at night.  Since this is Poe, I am guessing about midnight.  In some of his other stories he uses midnight as a symbol.  In The Masque of the Red Death, the red death strikes at midnight.  In The Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator enters the old man's room at midnight.  In my opinion, midnight shows the point of no return and that all decisions made by this point are final and irreversible.  This story also shows symbolism in the colors. Red is mentioned as the color of the sun and the rain that "falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood."  The color red is also showed in The Masque of the Red Death as the color of the windows to the black room.  Red seems to symbolize blood and evil presence.  Neither of which are good signs for the future of our main character. 

This particular story reminds me a lot of The Raven.  There is a narrator that seems nice at first.  Then you realize that he/she may have done something wrong to deserve punishment.  Next, you notice the evil figures; the raven and the demon.  There is also color symbolism in both stories.  in The Raven there is the symbol of mystery in the purple velvet curtains.  In Silence- A Fable there is the color symbolism of the saffron yellow river and the red rain and sun.  Since The Raven ended with the narrator losing hope along with his sanity, I expect something similar to happen in the end of Silence- A Fable. 

This is my ending to the story. 

I studied his face; I watched and waited.  I watched and waited for him to answer my plea.  I cried out "Monster- master of evil; take me from this wretched place.  This horrible place that is sick; sick with fear and pain and death."  Despite my desperate cries, he just stood there and watched.  He watched as the red blood pooling at me feet rose higher and higher until the crimson liquid stained my neck.  I begged him to save me; to end my misery.  The misery that bound me to Earth.  No mater what I said; no matter how much of my blood mixed with that of my enemy, he stood in silence to watch me drown.  The blood surged up past my gaping mouth and covered my nose.  I tried to cough, but there was no air left in my collapsing lungs.  Crumbling with horror and guilt, I drifted in and out of consciousness.  In and out of sanity.  The blood entered my eyes and my vision was shaded with red.  Oddly, my ears were unaffected.  i could still hear the horrible screams from the convulsing river.  I had no air, or sight, or smell, but  was still living.  I saw his plan now.  I was to sit here; choking, dying, for all eternity.