Transformation Of The Novel ' The Ghost ' By Teal Swan

Out of many things that can scare us, the transformation of a person or environment can truly terrify us. Transformation can be erratic and random, so one cannot expect what would happen next and does not allow us to gain control over it. This truly frightens us. As a little girl watching Ratatouille, I was very scared. Before, I thought that it was the rat that scared me, but I now realize that the abrupt changes in the setting was what actually scared me. For example Remy, the main character, starts off on a roof top, then inside a house, then down a sewage “river” in the first few minutes of the movie. To add on, the scenes changed very quickly not giving me a chance to get used to the environment. It unnerved me that I could not expect what would happen next. Transformation in character and setting can instigate fear in with their erratic nature and can develop an uncertainty of what will happen next. There are many examples in literature where a character or setting goes through a transformation that establishes a sense of fear in the audience. Some examples of transformation creating fear can be seen in “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “Where is Here?” with changes in the characters and abnormal changes of the houses. “The Feather Pillow” also features how transformation can induce fear when Alicia’s health worsens as the monster inside her pillow grows.

A transformation is a thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance. This can relate to the mind or the actual physical appearance of something. Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. These two words can be closely related when it comes to being scared. In "Fall of the House of Usher," by Edgar Allen Poe, a reader becomes scared because the mind is transformed. In "House Taken Over," by Julio Cortázar, a simple house transforms into something mysterious. In "Where is Here?" by Joyce Carol Oates, the minds of family members transform and create a sense of terror. Transformation plays a role in stories meant to scare us by changing something in the story to create a suspenseful or mysterious outcome.

Have you ever read a story that has a significant change in the plot suddenly? A lot of thrillers/horror stories, will use the method of transformation to create fear. Transformation plays a huge role in stories meant to scare us. It causes sudden change of mood or how you feel about a certain character quickly which can create a fearful aspect in the story. Examples of writers that use this method include; Ishmeal Reed and Edgar Allen Poe.

“Limits, like fear, is often an illusion”(Michael Jordan). As explained in this quote, your imagination is really what drives you to fear. Based on the texts, “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe and “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortázar, fear is a key concept that often gets mixed with your imagination and replaces reality. Through these stories, your mind is shown to control many things you do or possibly see which forces yourself to feel like you’re out of reality.

Transformation plays a role in stories meant to scare us by playing with our imagination safety and mood of a story. Imagination appears in both Edgar Allan Poe’s, gothic fiction story “The Fall of the House of Usher,” by Usher’s isolated environment and in Joyce Carol Oates gothic literature story “Where is Here?,” by foreseeing who people are. Transformation also plays a role by it assists knowing our own selves are safe in a scary situation. This is shown in, “ Why do Some Brains Enjoy Fear?,” by Allegra Ringo and in “ House Taken Over,” by Julio Cortazar. Transformation plays with our imagination and our safety it also plays a role in the mood and setting. This appears in , “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and “The Dream Collector,”

Julio Cortazar’s “House Taken Over” transformation creates fear because a peaceful day of Irene and the brother cleaning their house goes from being peaceful to a demon taking over sides of their house. This is effective, because a perfect day went from being horrifying very few days later. One example is “It was pleasant to take lunch and commune with the great hollow, silent house, and it was enough for us just to keep it clean”

One way authors plant fear in your brain is by transforming something we already know and love into something frightening. One example of this is in the short story “Windigo” by Louise Erdrich. Over the course of the story, the windigo takes an innocent little kid and turns them into a monster. The author introduces an inculpable child, even calling them “little one”. She then takes the kid and transforms them into a monster, a windigo. Following that, she even goes so far as to bring the child home. Home. As a monster. To haunt her own village. It says, “...I carried you home,” and that is when the fear she planted at the beginning really starts to take root. This transformation is a great illustration of an author transforming something you know and love, in

During the Communist regime in the former Soviet Union, life was very difficult. The people who lived within the countries controlled by the Soviet government experienced levels of oppression akin to slavery. They could not express themselves through any means and had to conform both body and soul to the views of the Communist Party. People could be arrested, imprisoned, shipped off to exile or executed often without trial. Some twenty million people died while Joseph Stalin led the USSR and for many years after his death it was still dangerous to dare criticize his regime, although some scholars put that number closer to forty million people who died. Now that the Soviet Union has broken up and Russia is its own country there is more freedom, but the people still live under the yoke of an oppressive leader who does not tolerate political or social challenges. The people do nothing to stand up to this government because they have all been scarred by the decades they lived under Stalin.

The author of Bless Me, Ultima also uses this element using the Trementina sisters. In chapter 10 as ultima begins to heal lucas, the trementina sisters who have now morphed into coyotes begin to “howl” in pain because of ultimas curse. Ultima says, “oh those Trementina sisters are going to have cuts and bruises tomorrow”(95). It is known by the townspeople that witches have the ability to turn into coyotes which is why it is accepted and ordinary. Another example of a metamorphosis is in Big Fish when mr.calloway transforms into a werewolf. In the movie Edward bloom was going to see Mr.Calloway at his trailer in the carnival but when he arrives he notices the trailer shaking and trembling. When he opens the door expecting Mr.Calloway a werewolf jumps out at him. We know the werewolf is Mr.Calloway because he is a harsh and unwilling man which showed through the werewolfs actions.But after the wolf calms down Edward actually beings to play fetch with him which shows that he did not see this as an odd thing. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a magical realism author, also uses this element in his story “A Very Old Man With Wings” when carnival comes to town and the townspeople say she had been changed into a spider for disobeying her parents. “She was a frightful tarantula the size of a ram and with the head of a sad maiden”(10). Marquez uses imagery and other literary devices to show how unrealistic the

In a country that is the melting pot for many cultures, it is hard to interact with all of them. Tony Hillerman educates readers about one culture, the Navajos, through his novel, The Ghostway. After a shooting occurs in the quiet Indian reservation, a Navajo police Jim Chee, officer overcomes many obstacles physically, mentally, and spiritually to sort the case out and protect a young girl. He is constantly struggling with his identity, whether or not he should continue living his life as a Navajo or cross over to mainstream “white” life. Although the book’s main plot is about a murder and police investigations, a theme that the book is always making references about is cultural differences and how these

Transformation in stories is meant to scare the person reading it. Transformation uses what we as humans don’t quite understand, against us. It uses death, supernatural elements, and the unknown, all things we don’t understand, to scare us. “But i do believe in the paranormal, that there are things our brains just can’t understand.” This quote by Art Bell explains just how little we know.

Poe is renowned for his stories of death and dying. Usher, like Uncas, is about to become the last of his line. The narrator of the story claims that Usher’s sickness “could be traced to […] the severe and long-continued illness […] the evidently approaching dissolution- of a tenderly beloved sister” (Poe 1557). Usher is consumed with the thought of death. He seems unable to move past his fear like the heroes in Cooper’s tales, despite his best attempts. Like Hawk-eye and Chingachgook, the narrator and Usher attempt to move past the specter of death and enjoy life by performing assorted tasks with which they have experience, though not everyone is successful in their endeavors.

Human transformation is one of the most powerful styles used to create a terrifying experience for the reader. The transformation of a character is very effective because of the active role they often play in the story. One example of this is “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe. The narrator of the story appears in awe of a raven who flew into his house, but as the poem progresses he begins to form anger and resentment towards the bird as it repeats the word “Nevermore”. This in itself forms a fearful response the strong emotion poured forth by the narrator.

In the short story Ghosts written by Edwidge Danticat a young man named Pascal and his family (mother, father, and a brother once a police officer, immigrated to Canada) live in an underprivileged area of Haiti called Bel Air. His parents once pigeon breeders, now own a restaurant in the neighborhood. The eatery caters to the working-class citizens as well as the local gang members. When Pascal is not working at the restaurant he is either attending computer programming school or working at the local radio station as a news writer. Pascal has the desire to have a program on the radio station, that he will use as a platform to discuss and alleviate the numerous issues within his community with guest such as; gang members, community leaders,

There 's that look people get told they have, where they look like they 've seen a ghost. I want to know what it means to have that feeling but knowing you 're the ghost. It had been too long since I stepped foot anywhere near these parts of the city. After I turned and changed into who I am now, I never wanted to risk getting seen by any members of the family that runs this part. That is actually a good reason they have never been able to extend their territory any further. It 's kind of easy to hear when a gang war is about to break out for someone to gain new ground. And for me, it 's all too easy to join the defending family and help kill men you were once friends with to make sure you had the room to run fucking wild. I 'm made a few good friends, nah I made a few bad acquaintances by doing that. The men that run other parts of this city know me by who I am now, only one knows me by who I was. Maybe it 's for the best he knows Big Mac is against him, less likely that it 's me behind the mask then. God, in those days, before I grew up and found out doing everything I was getting told to do, without being told to do them was so much better, Claire not counting, she just above another voice in my head. But the freedom I have, may not seem like a good thing for the city and its people, but I love being me and only this me.