The Horrific Chasm Story

Many times, titles provide more information that the reader originally anticipates. Titles are specifically chosen by each author, whether to summarize the main idea of present an idea in itself. Often times, titles can provide further into the insight of the author, and the specific purpose behind what they have created. A particular example of this is the story entitled The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Flannery O’Connor. This story is about a meeting between an armless man, an old woman with no teeth, and a beautiful deaf girl. In the end, the man marries the girl but abandons her while making off with the family’s automobile. This plot line doesn’t particularly fit the title when initially analyzed. However, after careful critical analysis, it can be determined that the title represents the overall theme of this story.

There are three principal sources of interest in narratives: suspense, mystery, and irony. In the narratives “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Ronald Dahl, irony is a primary source of interest. Irony is defined as a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result. In both of these cases, the use of irony by the authors greatens the impact the pieces have on their audience. In both “A Rose for Emily” and “Lamb to the Slaughter”, the authors have numerous pieces of irony throughout their respective stories; this use of irony creates a better reading experience for the reader.

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Death is the undeniable force that compels people into extreme situations. The Demon in the Freezer, by Richard Preston, is a dystopian novel that focuses on smallpox and the eradication of the horrific disease. On the other hand, Lost Horizon, by James Hilton, is a utopian novel set on a surreal island where a perfect society is idealized. These two novels present a central theme about human nature; however, it is displayed in different ways as shown through the contrasting genres of books. The novels' use of conflict, as well as diction, tone, and mood; along with motifs, present the theme that the fear of death pushes people to extreme behaviors.

As the philospoher Seneca once said, “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.” Raymond Carver’s Cathedral is a story about a man who started out as a closed-minded man but, throughout the story his character changes as he begins to bond with his wife’s friend, Robert, a man who is blind. Plato’s Allegory of the cave is a story about a prisoner who is freed from being locked in chains living all of his life underground and finding out a different perspective about a lie he’s been living his whole life, being told as a conversation between Socrates and Glaucon. In the stories, “ Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, and “ Allegory of the Cave” by

Some reasons an emergency fund is important is are in the event of unexpected events. One can still be covered from finical ruin until they can obtain more funds for financial security. Sudden unemployment, illness, household, and natural disasters can have long lasting financial implications in the wrong predicament. For the finical situation I am in any one of these events would leave me homeless in less than a month.

The very title of this mock- epic gives the audience a clue, the word "rape" and all its implications bring to mind a heinous crime of violation.

The intriguing stories emphases the relationship of how madness can consume someone’s life without them understanding the consequences. Creation and revenge act as important aspects throughout the stories driving the main characters to unforeseen and unimaginable means. This leads to the destructive power of revenge which drives individuals to make very rash decisions that end up ultimately leaving them with a guilty conscience or the inability to find true happiness, which we see in the case of the monster and Montresor.

Shakespeare once said, “If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.” In the 1850 novel, The Scarlet Letter, a young woman named Hester Prynne was just that. Nathaniel Hawthorne tells a story of a young woman named Hester, who commits adultery, and how she struggles to raise a daughter, and keep her lover from judgement. In the Puritan society, honorable sin was not a possibility. Throughout the book, characters deal with consequences for their actions that change their views on how they should deal with problems. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingsworth, the main characters, all have consequences for their sins. In the book sin changes the characters’ personalities, choices, and actions.

In Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart," the author combines vivid symbolism with subtle irony. Although the story runs only four pages, within those few pages many examples of symbolism and irony abound. In short, the symbolism and irony lead to an enormously improved story as compared to a story with the same plot but with these two elements missing.

Taking into account the previous descriptions and the definitions of horror and terror we will try to identify which of these stories presents horror and which one may be said to go deeper by portraying terror. The Pit and the pendulum is characterized by having a narrator who seems in absolute use of his mental faculties. As it is mentioned above, this character is aware of what is happening around him and by having a peak of his logical thoughts and feelings the reader experiences the struggle of the narrator to stay alive in a much more personal way. The fact that this character is sane, integrated and coherent in his thinking is one of the reasons why the reader may sense the terror of the story on a whole other level.

brilliantly brings out this theme through the use of setting and atmosphere, the title of the story and its

Stephen King once said, “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.” Bram Stroker, H.P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, and Edgar Allan Poe may have been a few of the greatest authors of horror to ever live. Out of all of these authors, Poe may have written the most freighting tales. All of his stories are considered horror, but some of them have more horrific qualities than others. “The Pit And The Pendulum” is one of Poe’s most famous works. “The Pit And The Pendulum” by Edgar Allen Poe meets three qualifications of a true horror story.

In the short story "Traplines" the writer, Eden Robinson, shows the internal conflict the main character, Will, has trouble in finding his true identity by showing his relationships with the Smythe 's, his family, and his friends.

This would be a good opportunity for me to learn about the different fields I can specialize in to consider which path to follow. Humanity vs. Perfection: A Study of Two Sonnets “Loving someone with your heart and loving someone with your mind are two very different kinds of love.” -bgt correlates to how the speakers of Sonnet 18 and 130 describe their mistresses (the one they love or at least hold in high regard). Sonnet 18 uses the sonnet to describe his mistress’s beauty on a superficial level and to at the end of the sonnet, reassure himself and others that his sonnet will be preserved throughout time without being forgotten nor destroyed. He immortalizes both his sonnet and the mistress’s beauty he speaks of.