Transformations In The Invisible Man And Where Is Here

As bizarre as it might seem, the element of transformation is truly a great benefaction when it comes to making a horror story. Change plays an essential role in gothic literature because it takes something that is familiar and safe to the reader and turns it into something new and uncomfortable. There are quite a few examples of this in literature, and other storytelling forms. For example, “The Fall of The House of Usher,” by Edgar Allan Poe, “Where Is Here,” by Joyce Carol Oates, and “House Taken Over,” by Julio Cortazar, which are all literary pieces that deal with the phobia of transformation. In addition to these Doki Doki Literature Club, also uses the metamorphosis to change from calm to physcotic to both excite and frighten players.

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.

Although it’s quite obvious that both The Awakening and The Metamorphosis are of different genres and have a distinctive target audience, both have insightful transformations—both physical and mental—that occur through the protagonists of the stories. However, the degree of the conversions only serves to show the importance of each; while both transformations served to enlighten the reader with perceptively tumultuous emotions, both came at high costs to the characters affected. The most similar theme both books share is within the emotional and visceral limits that each character faces in their pursuit of freedom among all the tribulations and impediments in their way.

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.

Where is Here? was written by Joyce Carol Oates. Joyce wrote novels and stories concerning individuals whose ordinary lives are suddenly upset by mysterious forces beyond their control. The mysterious force in this story is the stranger. The family is interrupted in the preparation of supper by the stranger who wants to look around his childhood home. The mysterious force of the stranger brings into question whether or not he is a ghost or time traveler, and what has happened to the sister.

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,”

Today I will be analysis the fiction story of Where is Here? By: Joyce Carlo Oates. The theme of the story is about visiting a once childhood home. The book gives off varieties of emotions with the four characters that were written in this story. The mother, the father, the son, and the stranger. In this paper, I will be going over the story Where is Here. Carefully rereading more into the settings, characters, and meaning of the story of the stranger, one of Joyce Carlo Oates characters. Here is my analysis of a childhood home forever loved.

The Invisible Man, by H.G. Wells, is composed of many small themes that combined to form two major themes in the novel. Some of the minor themes are acting before thinking and denial of unexplainable events. It is based on the two major themes of science experiments gone wrong and the ignorance of society.

Right from the commencement of the Invisible Man it’s as if all the odds in the world are constantly being thrown at the story's unnamed narrator. The main obstacle being the narrator’s skin color- as he is a black man in racist, 1930’s era America. It is this “obstacle” that has caused the narrator to be swallowed up in this feeling of banishment and sense of exile- fueled by racial tensions-which in turn becomes a eminent theme of the story’s plot and the narrator’s own life. As the narrator believes that society doesn’t recognize the black people of America (sense of exile), and demonstrates this with a prelude history lesson on the past his own grandparents endured as former slaves and how they now live as supposedly “free people.” These flashbacks reinstate the hatred and feeling the narrator feels as a member of an excommunicated minority group, yet at the same time counteracts the elated emotions the narrator is also trying to use as a facade to fool and win himself over in proving that he isn’t really as invisible as he feels in the world.

In Joyce Carol Oats’ “Where is Here?”, a strange visitor comes to a family’s home to look through and reminisce about his childhood. Throughout the story, the stranger moves from place to place about the house, stopping and telling little details from his childhood concerning some of the rooms. Oats’ chooses to have the stranger move about the house in a certain order, as to have the desired effect on readers.Throughout the events of “Where is Here?”, this effect is achieved. The stranger first starts his tour in the garage. However, the reader does not get any details about why the stranger might be interested in the garage. He then moves to the backyard, going down to an old swing set. The reader learns that these swings were more than likely there when the stranger was a child because of the posts being rotted. Without giving the readers almost any detail about the outside of the house, the story moves on to the stranger being invited inside. Once inside the house, the stranger goes into the kitchen. He notices some things have changed since he lived in the house, but some have stayed the same. He also makes a remark about a door, asking if it leads to the basement. However the couple ignores this question and moves on. The stranger then notices some flowers on a windowsill and says his mother used to have flowers there too, although they never bloomed. He then moves to the dining room, telling about who sat where at the table. Also, the reader discovers that the couple’s children are the same age as the stranger and his sister were when they lived in this house. Next came the living room, in which the stranger pointed out that there used to be a water stain on the fireplace mantel, but the couple hadn’t seen it before. He also tells about the window seat, and how it was one of his happy places in the house whenever his father wasn’t home. He says that his mother would sit there with him as they plotted together. She would also read him stories and riddles that he could never answer. When the mother asks the stranger if his mother is still alive, he answers no and says,”We’ve all been dead—they’ve all been dead—a long time.” The story then states that the stranger seemed to limp his way up the stairs,

The statue in place at Tuskegee was created by sculptor Charles Keck. This statue was dedicated to Booker T Washington as he was committed to bringing people a better life through education. Charles Keck called his sculpture “Lifting the Veil of Ignorance” in light of Washington’s motives for education. However in the story “Invisible Man,” Invisible Man (I.M.) questions this statue as he wonders “whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more firmly in place.” (Ellison 36) While both the founder and Bledsoe attempt to take control of their lives and gain power, the founder lifts the veil of ignorance while while Dr. Bledsoe buries it firmly in place. The founder (assuming it is Booker T Washington) of the university came from a troubling background as he “came upon his initial learning through shrewd questioning of his little masters (...) and how he escaped and

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.

In chapter sixteen of The Invisible Man, the narrator is brought to a boxing ring where he is expected to go into the ring and give his first speech to the Brothers. In chapter sixteen, the book demonstrates a good comparisons between the setting of the boxing ring and the theme of the chapter. The theme of chapter sixteen is vision and how we see ourselves in the world. In this chapter the narrator is put up on a stage in front of the brothers and a bunch of white men who do not appreciate him.

Where the Wild Things Are, is a classic picture book written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, won the Caldecott Medal as the most distinguished American picture book in 1964. The book for children 5-9 years old. The plot of the book is based on the fantasy and real consequences of a little boy's mischief. After more than 50 years Where the Wild Things Are is a well-known, well-loved children’s book. “Children can connect to the book on a personal level – they have all “made mischief”, been punished for it, and experienced the same emotions as Max when they didn’t get the desired reaction.

Transformations in literature are where something or someone transforms into something different. With the help of transformations a story can add an element that can scare the reader, by a sudden or drawn out change. Transformations in “The Raven,” Where is Here,” and “Beware” causes the reader to feel the wanted spookiness, that happens through the transformations. “Where is Here” by Joyce Oates uses transformations in many small and subtle ways. When the story starts a stranger knocks on the front door of a families house and asks if he can look at his old childhood house, the father is fine with him looking around the outside, but as time goes on the parents decide to let the stranger into the house to look around; as this happens the