Short Essay On The Hallower's House

With our imagination we can have many thoughts in our mind, we can think of how we want to be in the future. Everybody in this world has their own way of thinking. “In the Gothic stories, “The Fall of The House of Usher written by Edgar Allan Poe and “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortazar the authors write about how both stories have some type of interest that makes the reader want to be very eager about the story. The imagination can overcome reason through issues such as: fear, paranoid, delusion, etc. The House of The Fall of Usher talks about how Mr. Usher is trying to get over his “dead” sister and the narrator is trying to help him. They begin to hear things inside the house, and realize that the sister was alive at the end. House Taken Over about a bother and sister that share a house that’s been passed over from previous family members and normally they have a typical daily routine but at night they come across “spooky” occasions.

Both Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” and Julio Cortazar’s “House Taken Over” have similar settings because both take place in a spooky large houses. However, in Poe’s story, “The Fall of the House of Usher,”the setting is different because it was dark,gloomy and old house in the middle of nowhere. By contrast, Cortazar’s “House Taken Over,”the house is a little more modern and bright, well taken care of and the environment is greener.Gothic Literature is literature that has bleak or remote setting, a gloomy or melancholy mood. Also, characters or sometime tormented in a physical or psychological way. Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the house of Usher” is a good example of gothic literature because the setting of the story is very bleak and dark,and the characters in them are tormented physically and psychologically . for example, in the story, it states ,”With the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit (13).” This sentence proves my claim because the quote is saying that the character’s spirit feels tormented when he starts to walk into the house. Therefore, “The Fall of the house of Usher” is gothic literature because it shows it shows characters in the story being tormented.

While most of the primary characters in the American Gothic cannon are members of the aristocracy, their societally dominant position does not guarantee them satisfying lives. The focus of this analysis will be the portrayal of the individual as it relates to his or her economic status: does having wealth mean that upper class characters are more likely to lead fulfilling lives than middle/lower class characters? Through a close reading of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables, Kate Chopin’s “Désirée’s Baby,” and Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, readers can clearly see a pattern of social commentary in which the members of the aristocracy are—in general—the most restricted,

The human imagination is a powerful tool that sometimes is very hard to control, if it can be controlled at all. In The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe uses imagination as a key tool to make the story come to life.

In the story, “The Fall of The House of Usher”, there are many mysterious happenings that go on throughout the story between the characters Roderick Usher and the narrator. Throughout the story, Edgar Allan Poe uses themes such as madness and insanity to connect the house back to Roderick Usher. In the “Fall of The House of Usher”, the narrator goes through many different experiences when arriving to the house. The narrator’s experiences start out as almost unnoticeable in the beginning, turn into bigger ones right before his eyes, and end up becoming problems that cause deterioration of the mind and the house before the narrator even decides to do anything helpful for Roderick and his mental illness. In “The Fall of The

Edgar Allan Poe was a unique man that most people could not understand. Many recognize that he is a talented writer with a very strange and dark style. One of his most well known short stories is “The Fall Of The House Of Usher.” Many argue the different meanings of this story and how it is symbolic to his life. Poe was a very confused individual who needed to express himself, he accomplished this through the short story of “The Fall Of The House Of Usher.” Through this story, Edgar was trying to show the fear he had for him self, he did not understand him self so therefore Poe ran from his own personality and mind. This story enables the reader to take a look at Poe’s mind and

Edgar Allan Poe wrote, "The Fall of the House of Usher", using characterization, and imagery to depict fear, terror, and darkness on the human mind. Roderick and his twin sister, Madeline, are the last of the all time-honored House of Usher (Jacobs and Roberts, pg. 462). They are both suffering from rather strange illnesses, which may be attributed to the intermarriage of the family. Roderick suffers from "a morbid acuteness of the senses"(464), while Madeline's illness is characterized by " a settled apathy, a gradual wasting away of the person, and frequent all though transient affections of a partly cataleptical character"(465) which caused her to lose consciousness and feeling. The

“Oh, there you are” her mother would reply Jordan would giggle, then run back out the back door with no shoes on. For a few days Jordan came inside the house limping on one foot, crying to her mother, “Mommy, I got cactus stuck in my foot” her mother would sit there with tweezers, pulling out each spine from the heel of her foot Jordan flinching each time she yanked one out. As soon as her mother was done, she'd look at her mother thankful she could help her, but still a tear still rolled down her face onto the floor from the surging pain now in her foot. Her mother would look at her in the eyes and repeat “You better learn how to wear your shoes” Jordan would nod, then limp off to her room to take a nap. One day, Jordan opened her eyes, she looked out the door and found her mother to be in the yard digging up cactus in the yard. Jordan made sure to put on some shoes and ran outside hiding around the corner of the house. Her mother saw her peeking around the corner of her house and said “Jordan, do you want to come help me?” Jordan smiled disappearing back around the house. She ran around the other side of the house trying to make her mother to jump. Kristina would giggle and say “Get over here you little turd” Jordan would run up to her mother, hug her, then look up at her saying “I love you mom” as her mother looked down

Toni started to question why they were heading towards Las Vegas. She turned to her aunt and asked why they were heading towards Las Vegas and her aunt replied” We’re not going to yosemite today.” Toni said, “why not tia?” “We’re going to take the long way and go to St. George for a couple of days.” Toni replied “Oh.” Vero said “We’re going to go visit your tio’s aunt and uncle.” “Oh cool and they live in St. George?” “yes.” she replied. They went along their way their first a stop in Las Vegas. They stopped at “best buffet” in all of Las Vegas. In Toni’s opinion that was not the best buffet. She has had way better. All the different aroma of sushi and fish made Toni want to gag. At the buffet they had exatic foods from all over the world but they also had the basics such as mac n cheese, mini sliders, and pizza. Then they left and they were on their way to St. george. About 4 hours later they finally got to Chris’ aunt and uncle's’ house. Toni politely went up to them and greeted them and said “Hello my name is Toni and im Chris’ niece and i will be staying with you the next couple of days.” They

"Now your going crazy!" he says to her. "Quit laughing at me or I'll make you go crazy" while pulling on his ear tightly. "Ow Ow.... sorry I wont do it agian. "Oh, yeah I forgot I bought some ornamets to decorate the cave". "Wow that great but, when did you get into decorating things? she asked. "Well, I acturally got it for you, but I thought you might use it to decorate the cave". "Oh well thanks, but I think the cave beautifull as it is. "Yeah, your right", he replied. Time passed quikly and it was almost sunset so they decided to go back home for dinner. "Your comeing to my house to eat dinner right?" "Actrually I'm planning on heading back to my house". The packed there things and headed back home on a trail they mayed but Sarah felt like there was someone watching beacuse of all the noise there was comeing from the bushes. "Hey, Grey I think theres someone following us" Sarah says. "No its just windy". "Well, it became windy all of a sudden and kinda dark." "Umm...yeah your right." Suddenly the wind blew harder, and a small rock flew and hit Sarah in the back. As Sarah turned there the ghost was standing behind the tree. Sarah was fritend "G...GR...GREY WHATS THAT!" "Whats what, I dont see anything."replying to Sarah in a confused

One evening Reba was talking to Sugar about how her job interview went earlier in the day. Reba was going through a lot of pressure, since she has to find a job and earn money. That night while Reba and Sugar were in the lodge of the foster care, and the counselor at the foster care started asking Reba what was wrong and why she was so down. Sugar had noticed that Reba had been acting very unusual lately, but didn’t exactly know what was going on, Sugar thought maybe it was because of the stress Reba had been under to find a job. The counselor was very concerned about Reba, because Reba was usually always happy, so she started watching her throughout the week. The counselor was so concerned about Reba, so she sent Reba to a hospital near the foster care. When they got there Sugar was very nervous because Reba had to stay in the hospital for week and Sugar couldn’t go she her. Sugar was on walk with Shush when she saw a girl planting flowers in front of the hospital. Sugar started talking to the girl who looked a little older than Sugar. Sugar and the girl Lexie started talking for a while. Sugar told the girl that her mom was in the hospital and how they won’t let her see her mom. Lexie invited Sugar over to her house and they started hanging out often. Once Sugar and Lexie got really close Sugar would go over to her house more often and she would let Sugar stay in the extra room, while Reba was in the

When Kristina and Brandon got married they decided to open a CrossFit Prevail Gym in McHenry Illinois. Brandon dressed and went downstairs to eat breakfast then headed out the door to get to the gym to coach the 5am WOD class at the gym then head to his job afterward. When Brandon left it was 4:45am Kristina lied back down and fell back to sleep. When the second alarm went off at 6:45am Kristina found a little munchkin in bed with her it was Chase. He had snuck into her room to give her morning cuddles. After morning snuggles both Kristina and Chase got up and went to wake the girls for school. Running in and jumping on his sisters Chase finally awoke them and they all headed down stairs for breakfast. While all three children ate their cereal and watch cartoons. Kristina went up to take a quick shower and dress herself to take the kiddos to school. After finishing their cereal, the three children all went upstairs to get dressed. Madison the oldest dressed herself, made herself a lunch and packed her bag for school. As Madison was finishing packing her bag Makenna came down the stairs to pack her bag. After dressing Chase Kristina came down stairs to help her children. Kristina made Makenna a lunch and packed Chase a snack for preschool. “Get your shoes on” Kristina yelled as she turned off the lights and television. By the time that everyone got out of the house and into the car

Edgar Allan Poe is known for his poetry and short stories especially his tales of mystery and morbidity he was one of the countries first practitioners of short stories such as the Fall in the House of Usher many of his poems and short stories is said to have been inspired by Poe’s real and tumultuous life, in “The Fall of the House of Usher” Edgar Allan Poe uses sound, feeling and sight imagery to create and explore an atmosphere of horror and to convey to the reader the idea that fear coalesced by isolation and enclosure can lead to insanity.

“The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe is described as a gothic tale. A gothic tale or gothic novel is “a genre of fiction characterized by mystery and supernatural horror, often set in a dark castle or other medieval setting”¹. Like many of Poe’s short stories, “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a dark tale filled with madness, isolation, fear, and supernatural horrors.

One lady told the story about the angel of death and how about two weeks ago, she attended the funeral of an acquaintance of her husbands. She had brought her kids (ages 5 and 7) with her to the graveside service.. Apparently, while during the ceremony at the Cold Springs grave-site while people took turns praising the dead Taxi driver. Suddenly, the 5-year-old started walking off as if towards the grave. Everyone was shocked and a bit weirded out. They couldn't pull the boy from that. the mom asked her son 'who are you talking to, sweetie?' His reply frightened everyone, 'I'm talking to the man in the long black coat.' But there was no one there. After the service, she asked her son what he remembered. His reply was, 'He didn't remember.' But, that he 'talked without moving his lips.'.. That is how Dan Shepard come to realize not everything was as it seemed.