When I was around nine or ten years old , it was the day of Halloween. I was with my cousins doing our Halloween rounds , that we do every Halloween. My cousins that it would be nice to go to their neighbors’ haunted house and I was super scared to go inside. So I told my cousins that I don’t want to go inside and so what they did was. They dragged me inside and I wasn’t even in the house , I was already scared so I ran from the house and I ran all the way back to my cousin’s house. That Halloween had quickly transformed from a night of candy to a night of fear. Oate’s “Where is Here”, Arthur Tress’ “Dream Collector” and Julio Cortazar’s “House Taken Over”uses transformation of an ordinary person and an ordinary setting to show us how easily
