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Compare And Contrast Rose Red And Hill House

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Rose Red vs. Hill House

The story “The Haunting of Hill House” written by Shirley Jackson and “Rose Red” by Steaven King have many similar things that happen. In both the movie and book it talks about a group of people that are psychic that visit a haunted house that has had so many things happen inside. They believe the house is alive and they go inside to see it for themselves. Both houses had a family Crains and the Rimbauers that have died in the house or on the way to the house.

In Hill House it mentions that rocks fell on Eleanor's house for 3 days straight and it was only happening to her house. This is the reason Eleanor wants to leave and get away so she goes to Hill House. While she stayed in the house, the house tries to …show more content…

Luke is the next to be the owner of Hill House because he is Mrs Anderson's nephew. Steaven is currently the owner of Rose Red. These two are very similar because they are around the same age. Luke from Hill House is a really nice guy and he was always nice to Eleanor when everyone else was rude and talked bad about her. In Rose Red Steaven is very nice to Annie and they ended up becoming so close at the end because he would always protect her when everyone wanted to hurt her or said things to her that she didn't like.

In Hill House we have a character named Doctor Montague this character is the one that got everything started. He wanted to bring people in this haunted house to prove the existence of the paranormal. Than we have Joyce who brought a group of people to prove the same thing about Rose Red. These two characters lead the group of people around the house and told them about the history of both houses.

In the movie Rose Red we had lots more deaths than we had in Hill House. While the group stayed in Rose Red they died because the ghosts that were in the house made them think they were seeing things that they wanted to see but really nothing was there, the ghost also disguised as one of the people in the house so their friends would follow them thinking

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