Fear of the unknown is a very powerful emotion that clouds peoples mind and imagination with irrational thinking. The narrator in “The Fall of the House of Usher” is overcome by fear from hearing sounds that are like what he is reading out loud to Mr. Usher. The brother of Irene jumping to the conclusion that the house is taken over by hearing sounds in “House Taken Over”. Both stories are a good representation of imagination taking over reason, and how fear of the unknown clouds these character’s minds.
In “The fall of the house of Usher”, the narrator of the story attempts to calm his friend Rodrick Usher by reading a book to him. The house becomes weird as it reacts to the story being read to Mr. Usher. Whenever the narrator reads parts of the book describing sounds, he hears ominous sounds that were strangely similar-to the descriptions in the …show more content…
The brother hears strange sounds coming from the kitchen, he rushes to close the backdoor and tells his sister Irene that “they’ve taken over the back part of the house (Cortazar, 8).” The brother’s imagination fuels his fear that someone has taken over a section of his house, because of the noise he had heard. What the brother heard could have been anything. However, the brother’s only thought was that someone had taken over the back part of the house. “They’ve taken over our section,” Irene says (Cortazar 41). When Irene also hears sounds she confirms the brother worst fear and they both agree that someone has taken the back portion of the house. The reaction of Irene doesn’t help the situation, but further fuels the fear of the brother. They both contemplate their loses of personal belongings. However, neither of them choose to even check to see if someone had taken over the house. They both accept it as it is solely based on sounds and their
In “The fall of the house of Usher”, the narrator of the story attempts to calm his friend Rodrick Usher by reading a book to him. The house becomes weird as it reacts to the story being read to Mr. Usher. Whenever the narrator reads parts of the book describing sounds, he hears ominous sounds that were strangely similar-to the descriptions in the …show more content…
The brother hears strange sounds coming from the kitchen, he rushes to close the backdoor and tells his sister Irene that “they’ve taken over the back part of the house (Cortazar, 8).” The brother’s imagination fuels his fear that someone has taken over a section of his house, because of the noise he had heard. What the brother heard could have been anything. However, the brother’s only thought was that someone had taken over the back part of the house. “They’ve taken over our section,” Irene says (Cortazar 41). When Irene also hears sounds she confirms the brother worst fear and they both agree that someone has taken the back portion of the house. The reaction of Irene doesn’t help the situation, but further fuels the fear of the brother. They both contemplate their loses of personal belongings. However, neither of them choose to even check to see if someone had taken over the house. They both accept it as it is solely based on sounds and their