Comparing Neil Gaiman And The Wolves In The Walls

The power of the story has been very much a part of the lives of humans throughout time. The story is able to bring the past to the present and the dead to the living. The story can make the blind see. The story is able to make others feel for events in time that they have never experienced. The story has a profound effect on both the teller and the audience. As the audience is thought to be the beneficiary or the storytelling process, the teller is able to relive the times of old, or even teach a valuable lesson to his or her audience. Thus, allowing both parties to gain something intangible throughout this process. In “The Lives of the Dead,” O’Brien conveys the importance of storytelling and imagination by suggesting that the dead can be brought back to life in the minds of the people who hear it.

In Stephen King’s “The Man in The Black Suit”, a variety of themes are introduced to the reader, the most prominent of these being suspense. Throughout the short story, King does an excellent job of using elements of setting and character to create suspense and uneasiness. Just a few of the elements used to accomplish this include the hyperbolic depiction of the devil, foreshadowing of the main character, Gary, and his misadventure, and references to his brother’s death and his possible allergy inherited from his mother.

The horror genre has been captivating and enthralling the masses for centuries, but more recently in the twentieth century these morbid tales have moved from the old media of oral stories and literature to the new medium of horror pictures. Horror pictures still are not the end of the evolution of the horror genre, as this medium itself has experienced evolutions to satisfy an increasingly desensitized audience. To exemplify this evolution of horror pictures we will be taking a look at an occult classic from 1968 Night of the living dead and a new thriller The Walking Dead. Both horror pictures portray a zombie apocalypse and there are similarities and differences in the main characters, the zombies, and the worlds of the two pictures.

Gaiman words were comforting to read as his style seemed uncommonly laid back and easily sincere. He turns the most average moment into such an intriguing one, without overselling or making the sentences sound too poetic. Therefore the simplicity of his dynamic words changed the story into a capturing tale. However, the supernatural theme of the book was perplexing in the beginning,

The image may become deeply ingrained in one’s brain and create an everlasting cycle of what-ifs. This is evident through Tim O’Brien’s depiction within the section “The Man I Killed.” The imagery of the dead man makes the audience almost feel like they know him, despite the author never knowing him.

In David Sedaris’ short story, Nuit of the Living Dead, a satirical story develops through using a unique setting that interacts by allowing the main character to develop and express multiple stories. The multiple stories interact smoothly among each other due to two things. First, the diversity of the setting creates the opportunity to transition to new topics. Secondly, each story is connected due to the stories’ roots: common fears.

Authors use a number of different tones, settings, themes, characterizations, and points of view in order to create a fictional world inside the readers head. We see these tools used in contrasting ways in “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. The distinctive techniques used in these short stories leave you feeling uneasy once you finish them. Using different methods, both authors create a story of horror for their readers.

Washington Irving’s classic retelling of the original Faust Legend “The Devil and Tom Walker” tells the satirical yet enticing story of a miserly fellow who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for wealth. The story unfurls near Boston, Massachusetts, a town cloaked in mystery and story-telling. Legend has it that underneath a large tree in the gloomy swamps, the devil sits to guard Kidd the Pirate’s immense treasure. Kidd was a barbaric pirate who was ultimately hanged in Boston for his wicked raids, his riches to remain a secret forever. Many years later in the same town, a parsimonious bloke comes across the man guarding Kidd’s bounty, the devil himself. Tom Walker and his wife are an extremely penurious couple, arguing all the time about

W.H. Auden once said, “Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings.” When comparing “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe and “Eating Poetry” by Mark Strand their works incorporate horrid elements within their works, which creates apprehension in the reader. The writing styles of these authors provoke this apprehension. The similar characteristics of “The Cask of Amontillado” and “Eating Poetry”, including captivating introductions that present an eerie setting, use of theatrical imagery, and descriptive enticing language, are crucial components to developing one’s mood while reading.

Charles Burns’ Black Hole is a disturbing graphic novel written and drawn in black and white. Burns uses the black and white drawings to portray a sense of mystery in the story and also to show the nocturnal aspect of the book. Also, the few scenes during the day in the story give it a bright and loving aspect. Overall, the black and white scenes give the reader a feeling of depression and anxiety, whereas the daytime scenes are a break in the horrifying and give a sense of love. One of the first observations made when reading Black Hole is that the story is written in black and white.

Names, games as Goodman’s faith falling and failing him. Goodman Brown no longer can trust his faith, and consequently he feels like all of the good on the Earth is gone. The symbol of the ribbons falling show how he held both his wife Faith and his faith in God at a high level, and now that they have both fallen to the ground level, Goodman Brown can see what they really are: his wife is a sinner and his faith is a lie. This symbol enhances the story because it allows the reader to make the connection between the play on words of Faith and the ribbons. Like “Young Goodman Brown”, “The Purloined Letter” also has a symbol central to the understanding of the message.

The main analysis this essay with cover is comparing how the three stories discuss and express class and heritage, as well as how death can cause people to not only think things in a different way but also how death can open your eyes to something you never would have seen otherwise. Another thing that is potentially easily missed is how each of the individuals writing styles and backgrounds affect the ground work of the stories and how they progress.

For a first novel, the prose was lovely, and the mystery and alienation came through in the story that always danced over and across a line of fantasy, leaving multiple avenues to interpret parts of the story. It was intangible as ice or snow in the sun, melting and reforming.

When a writer masterfully orchestrates their piece of literature to capture and intrigue an audience, the author utilizes a certain depth in the piece, where their vernacular elicits emotions. The short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe and Shirley Jackson, “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Summer People”, produce an unexpected ending. The key to creating feelings of tension and suspense lies within their command of literary elements. Each of these aspects contribute toward the bigger picture – engaging the reader, through emotions, into the short story. Although the use of these elements vary in each short story, each component is essential toward the development of the overlying focus within both tales to find the unexpected. In the employment of such literary elements like mood, imagery, and foreshadowing each writer weaves a web of emotions that drive toward the unexpected.

Edgar Allan Poe was a fictional writer that astonished readers with his many mysterious poems and his tales of horror such as “The Raven”, “Annabelle Lee”, and “The Fall of the house of Usher”.