Explanatory Essay In scary stories authors use things that could scare us like someone dying, a ghost,an abnormal figure, or even death. In addition , “House Taken Over” and “ The Fall of the House of Usher” the authors used transformation within the characters to scare us as well as the aid of the other scary elements I just stated. How exactly, well the transformation in both stories is used show how characters go from being fearful to accepting the irregularity of their abnormal fate. And their fate is not anything weird it is something bad like the cost of your life or losing your home.The transformations of the characters is rolled out through the entire story, by this I mean they have different mindsets when it first comes to their problem and then a different mindset toward the end of the story. Both stories are great examples of how this works.
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In The Fall of the House of Usher Roderick was afraid of almost everything and everything in his household, a noise a little movement anything scared him.Although he was scared of the thought of him dying, he knew he was going to die “ I shall perish” he also says “ I must perish in the deplorable folly” (Poe 18). He tried to avoid death by fearing everything, instead it made him worse he started to go crazy as the story progresses. He reaches the point where he knew death was near and he wanted to die, even the narrator knew it “ he sprang up furiously on his feet , and shrieked out his syllables, as if in the effort he were giving up his soul” (Poe 30). At this point he knew he was dying and wanted to he still feared it but there was nothing he could possibly do, he accepted the fate of his and his family just like in “House taken Over”. Rodrick did end up dying, in that it clearly shows the acceptance of his strange death; this is what made the story
The bizarre and scary are used in “House Taken Over” by …show more content…
In The Fall of the House of Usher Roderick was afraid of almost everything and everything in his household, a noise a little movement anything scared him.Although he was scared of the thought of him dying, he knew he was going to die “ I shall perish” he also says “ I must perish in the deplorable folly” (Poe 18). He tried to avoid death by fearing everything, instead it made him worse he started to go crazy as the story progresses. He reaches the point where he knew death was near and he wanted to die, even the narrator knew it “ he sprang up furiously on his feet , and shrieked out his syllables, as if in the effort he were giving up his soul” (Poe 30). At this point he knew he was dying and wanted to he still feared it but there was nothing he could possibly do, he accepted the fate of his and his family just like in “House taken Over”. Rodrick did end up dying, in that it clearly shows the acceptance of his strange death; this is what made the story