the old house essay

There is an old brown house across the street from mines it is brown, rickety, dilapidated that will fall to pieces with a simple touch of the pinky. Cow webs decorate the house and the windows have been shattered. Some people would say witches, old people, and even fallen celebrities live in that run down house. But no one suspects Old Ranger Joe. Old Ranger Joe a mysterious, quiet man in his mid 50’s. He has blue eyes fill with rage and envy; his hard hardy hands could crush a bone with one simple

to a house which was in the middle of the forest. When they opened the house, the house was full of dust and spider webs. They started cleaning the house. Emily and his brother navin started roaming in the forest. Suddenly, Emily heard a sound ‘boom’. Then she went to the spot from where the sound came. There she found something hanging on shrub and shinning. She slowly walked towards that shining thing. That was an amulet. She Wore the amulet and went to her home and cleaned all the house. It was

In the story, “ The Right Kind of House” suspense is created through the setting, characters, insanity, obsession, and the theme revenge. To begin with, the suspense is one of the main characteristics of the horror genre, and “The Right Kind Of House” has lots of intense suspense. One example of suspense is as a result of the old house, “It’s a really old house” Slezar (56). This suggests they use an old house to add suspense because old houses are dark and scary. Furthermore, the suspense is created

The lime that is sprinkled around Miss Emily’s house is another symbol in the story. Lime is a white powder that is used to cover the smell of decomposing bodies. The townspeople go to Miss Emily’s house to sprinkle lime in her yard when there is complaint about the awful smell emanating from her house. The smell of Homer’s rotting corpse eventually stops permeating into the streets, but it is thought that the smell may have

identify symbols, it provides an understanding and a deeper look into what the author is trying to explain to the audience. A good example of symbolism in the short story, “The Destructors” is Mr. Thomas’s house. The house symbolises failure and defeat in London after the WWII bombings. The Old Blitz time period was from September 1940

Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher. In The Fall of the House of Usher and The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allen Poe uses character and style to show and explain the theme of guilt and evil. The Characters in The Tell-Tale Heart are the old man and the narrator, whose name isn’t given. Throughout the story the narrator is considered insane because he says the only reason he wants to kill the old man is because of his eye. [John Chua states that the narrator claims the old man has never wronged him

the descriptions about T’s character are given indirectly and are implied. It’s implied that T’s background is that of a wealthy young boy whose family lost all of their finances due to the war, which is what his motivations are for destroying Old Misery’s house, and his developing leadership skills. T starts off being the newest member of the Wormsley Common Gang and the others describe him as being silent, with an intimidating glare, “...his brooding silence that all recognized,”(Greene 1), “...meeting

Earth, the House of Hwang & water are simple symbols with a deeper meaning. A simple symbol with a deeper meaning is the House of Hwang & it represents the power of addiction. When Wang Lung introduces us to the House of Hwang, he mentions that the house is ruled by “an old mistress who had an opium pipe.”(Chap.1) & “an old master who had concubines”(Chap.1). Opium is a very expensive, addictive drug & concubines are women who are not married to a man but serve his sexual desires. The old mistress

The house in “A Rose for Emily” is an important contextual symbol because it supports the Southern Gothic theme of classical grandeur covered in rot and decay. The house symbolizes traditions of the antebellum South. The house resembles the architecture used in the old South with “white, decorated cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies” (Faulkner 91). This description of the house is contrasted with its surroundings. The house is surrounded by cotton gins and garages that disrupt the aesthetic

when the old South reined true, while everyone else is moving on to accept the change and welcome the new South of modernization. The people in the city gossip and pity Miss Emily her unwillingness to move on. Miss Emily’s character is developed from her not wanting to let go of the old South in which she had been around her entire life, and when her father dies, it appears that the old South dies with him, she cannot accept both