House Taken Over, Where Is Here, And Sleep Paralysis

Why do people feel horror when experiencing sudden change in a story? Transformation can be witnessed in the three stories, House Taken Over, Where Is Here, and Sleep Paralysis. In these stories transformation makes the readers feel fear, alarm, and panic. In the story, House Taken Over, there was sudden change in the middle of the story, because of an anonymous intruder. “Irene and I got used to staying in the house by ourselves…” (pg.38, narrator) The narrator and his sister stayed home, during the majority of their time. The narrator quoted, “In the kitchen or the bath, which adjoined the part that was taken over, we managed to talk loudly, or Irene sang lullabies.” (pg.41, narrator) He explains that after the frightening event where …show more content…
This makes the readers alarmed with the characters in the story because there was a sudden change in a peaceful story making the readers anxious about the same situation repeating once more. “I locked the front door up tight and tossed the key down the sewer.” (pg.42, narrator) There was a second time of the unknown invader taking over the other part of the house, and this time, the readers may have predicted what might happen even before the situation took place. In conclusion, change which makes the main characters aware of a scary situation will make the readers feel the same way too. In another short story, Where Is Here, there are lots of …show more content…
Lori Ball went through feelings of “panic, entrapment, and desperation so horrifying...” (paragraph 3, Lori Ball) Lori Ball, the person who has experienced sleep paralysis for a long time, had such terrifying feelings. Lori Ball quoted this statement after the author described in depth what a sleep paralysis is. That would have given the readers a terrifying view about sleep paralysis. Lori Ball explained her feelings to the readers with so much detail, which made the readers feel very alarmed and terrified because the awful feelings were due to sleep paralysis. It is a situation the readers would not want to go through. The author states that “Because sleep paralysis affects about 5 percent of the population, it could happen to you someday. If it does, it may be scary while it happens, but know that it’s not particularly uncommon- and the good news is, most people who suffer one episode of sleep paralysis do not have a chronic condition like Lori Ball.” (Paragraph 6, Lexi Tucker) The author reveals the truth that people who had only gone through sleep paralysis once, has a high chance to not have severe symptoms like Lori Ball. In addition, the author states this quote at the end of the story, in the last sentence which makes would have made the readers finally feel relaxed. Lexi Tucker, the author, has been