What Is The Theme Of Down A Dark Hall

This is because there were many things I thought were exceptional. However, like any book, some elements of this book could have been better. A factor of this book that did well was characterizing Duff the way he is. For example the author tells us “It sounds like a bunch of machines screaming at each other... ‘I thought you said this was music’. ‘It is to me’” (DuPrau 77). Here we get a great sense that Duff loves computers because of this detail that shows that Duff likes listening to computers for music. Another great component of this book is that the author did a great job of describing in detail the setting in this book. For example on page 119 Duff is eating lunch at an outdoor restaurant. The author describes in much detail as she uses words like “pinkish yellow haze” and “tingly smell”. Because of this, the readers are vividly able to imagine the setting with ease. On the other hand, there were also some factors that were not as satisfying. One example of this is the fact that there is almost no action in this book. Most of this book is just Duff driving around describing what he sees. The only action is when the people are chasing his car. Another negative side of this book is that the rising action was dragged on for too long. This caused the reader to get a little bit bored. Also, as a result the falling action and resolution were not developed enough. This imbalance is plot structure is a big reason why

She finds out that the man presumed to have been burned alive was a black man, and he ended up getting out. No one that Macey asks remembers anything about the fire, so they say. They want to keep it secret because he was black and the fire was like arson. After digging into it more Macey is turned to believe that the person who started the fire lived on Shell Road. The only problem with this was that Macey’s grandparents and Austin’s grandparents are the only ones who live here. Now Macey is more determined to find out what happened. Everyone tries to get her to research something different for her history project but, because of the fire that burned her hair, she is stuck on it. Venita, who is also black, is shot during a gang fight. All this proves to Macey that no matter how hard her town tries to hide it they are very prejudice. Her family won’t let her go the funeral. Which upsets her greatly. Finally Macey gets Austin to help her find out how the fire started and who was all responsible. These two end up falling for eachother but don’t want to admit it.

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.

The book begins by revealing the narrator, an aged Gene, visiting the Devon school, setting the location and general mood of the story. As Gene returns back to the grounds of Devon school, he notices that almost nothing had changed:

Poe’s ‘The Fall of The House of Usher’ express gothic completely immersed in madness and darkness while ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ limits the decent madness of woman but shows the depression and gloominess of the character.

There is a lot of content that I strongly dislike, for example, on the very first page of the book, it goes into detail about one of the characters (named Celie) being touched by her own father, who is flesh and blood. “He [Pa] never had a kine word to say to me. Just say You gonna do what your mammy wouldn’t. First he put his thing up gainst my hip and sort of wiggle it around. Then he grab hold my titties….(Walker).” There is also a lot of disrespect towards women, when Celie gave birth to a child her own father took her baby and sold it for money. She didn’t get to hold her or say goodbye at all. I understand that this actually happened, and still

With that in mind no matter how I look at it I wish the book would have started in a more interesting manner. It was very hard to start the book simply because it sounded like a regular high school life. Maybe that makes it a more interesting read to put in the realism, and yes I do understand that the book needs to start somewhere; to me it was just a bad start and could have been executed better. Now some people will probably say that it was a better start then how some books start and I definitely agree on that. To me I just wish that the book would have distinguished itself a bit

One of the hardest things for a director to do is to turn a book into a movie. There is a fine line between keeping the movie just like the book, and by barely crossing that line you can end up making a completely different vision than the book has set out for you. There are also many viewers out there that will completely hate the movie if it is nothing like the book that they read originally. The director has to realize that although there are many different types of audiences to please, that it still has to be a great movie that people cannot stop talking about.

Roderick Usher sends his childhood friend a letter, crying for company and good memories. As his friend passes the dark tarn and nears the House of Usher, all that is seen is a land of the dark and decaying. The Usher family within “The Fall of the House of Usher,” have lived in the house for generations, a house at one time filled “by good angels, (Being a) radiant palace-reared its head.”

The “Fall of The House of The Usher” is a novel that gives the thrill of a family who has a troubled lifestyle. The story is told completely through one character, the narrator. The narrator is not given a name or any background information. The narrator is merely a door that opens to the reader to see the story clearly through his eyes. Throughout the story, the narrator slowly becomes a character of his own and he gets his own personality and thoughts. Him becoming his own character in the story shows his good reliability as a narrator. He starts to develop a horrific thoughts through the story and later as he leaves the house he is a changed person.

Lyn Di Iorio and Laura Restrepo in their respective novels have managed to provide an overview that how supernatural and mystical powers and entities can change the life and perspective of individuals. Both of the novels entitled as Outside the Bones and Delirium are having a similar theme of conventionality and ghostliness.

With many scenes taken away because some characters are never mentioned took away a lot of the overall meaning of the story. I didn’t feel to relate to the movie as much as I did with the novel. Leaving an apt amount of scenes out, took away some of the anticipation I was building up to. Which made me a bit disappointed.

Exposition-Kit Gordy, a teenaged girl, is accepted into Blackwood boarding school for girls. The school is miles away from the closest town and is located in a village called Blackwood. When she sees the restored ancient building, Kit senses something evil about the old mansion. In the following days, three other students arrive; Lynda Hannah, her best friend Ruth, and Sandy.

In both, Nathanial Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” and Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” the protagonists, Young Goodman Brown and the narrator experience a journey into the subconscious. Both stories have an overlap that blurs the boundaries of reality and fantasy. It is truly the supernatural aspects of these two stories that force the protagonists and the reader to delve into the realm of the subconscious and to scrutinize good versus evil and real versus imaginary.

A comparison of the ways that the dead affect the living in the novels Beloved by Toni Morrison and The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.