House Taken Over Essay

Imagination overcomes reason when you are not sure what is that you are thinking of, so you imagine something that could be it, even though you're not sure. In the story, “House Taken Over”, there is a brother and a sister living in an old house they own. During this story, the brother describes their everyday life; his sister knitting and him reading books, but all of a sudden, in paragraph 6, “I went down then corridor as far as the oak door, which was ajar, then turned into the hall toward the kitchen, when I heard something in the library or the dining room. The sound came through mutes and indistinct, a chair being knocked over onto the carpet or the muffled buzzing of a converstion.” The brother in the story never said what was the sound …show more content…
More into the story, they only stayed on the side that wasn’t taken over and prefered to live like that. In this story, the brother never truly found out or knows what is on the side that was taken over. His imagination was so powerful that he could be able to think of many ideas of what it could be, instead the two just left the house locked up to keep the invader inside. This is one reason why imagination overcomes reason. In the story “The Fall of the House of Usher”, it mentions in the beging that Usher was a dark and depressed. During the story, he has his friend, the narrator, come to his place just for a visit, but the reason he came is because Usher sent him a letter. In paragraph 30, the narrator describes how he feels when he is in Usher’s house; “It was no wonder that his condition terrified--that it infected me. I felt creeping upon me, by slow yet cetrain degrees, the wild influences of his own fantastic yet impressive superstitions.” Close to the end, his mind took over him and Usher’s sister is sick, so his mind made him think his sister is dead. “We have put her living in the tomb!” Said