This story was unlike anything I've ever read from Poe before. I would not have been able to guess the story was by him if his name was not on it. Usually, his stories are written with an eerie, mysterious tone. This story was written in a lighthearted and even humorous tone. The way the people of the town acted seemed like it was designed to cause people to smile or laugh. The man from the moon had more of a funny appearance than a scary one. My previous awareness of Poe was that he wrote horror stories, but this story did not have that kind of feeling at all. As it says in the title, it was an adventure story, so it contained mystery, but not of the terrifying kind in his usual stories. This story seemed to rather be a kind of humorous science-fiction story. I do not know if that kind of story existed before this one, but it seems to me like it would have been one of the first of its kind.
It was not the easiest story to read. The sentences were very long and wordy. Sometimes it seemed the story went into more detail than necessary. I think Poe improved as a writer in his later works, since from what I looked up about his story, it was written when he was young and before he became popular. There was a part of the story that was humorous for me that Poe probably did not intend to be funny, which is his description of the science and technology involved in reaching the moon in a balloon, and what space and the moon would look like. I do not know how much of this was intended to be seen as clearly fiction, and how much would have been considered plausible at the time the story was published.
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