Explanatory Essay On The Raven

Explanatory Essay As a kid, I always loved Halloween, but never liked to watch scary movies. It might not make sense to most people, including my older sister. My older sister loves me and all, but she also loves to terrorize me, mostly like all older siblings. I was about 12 years old and it was Halloween night. It was late, after me and my friends were done trick or treating. I’d had a great night until I got home. My sister begged me to watch a scary movie with her. It was Halloween so I decided to watch it because why not. I asked her what movie we were going to watch, she said The Conjuring. Even though I was scared, I had decided to watch it. After the movie was over I was walking up stairs to go to bed. Almost to my room, my sister popped out of nowhere and scared me. I screamed and cried and couldn’t sleep that night. This was supposed to be a great day, but it quickly transformed into a terrifying night which I could not handle. Transformation obviously creates fear. This can be seen in the following three stories as well. Oat’’s “Where …show more content…
This is effective because it causes readers to change the way they think about the story. One example is “And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain, Thrilled me-filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before, so that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating”(104) This is an example of transform because of how interesting and uncertain this story is. Another example is “Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, soon again, I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.”(105) This has transformed in it also because of how this quote can be both interesting and uncertain. Therefore, transformation is effective because of how the story can be both interesting and uncertain at the same time, and other times it can be either