Julio Cortazar's House Taken Over

Have you ever thought your yourself, is my house part of me? Or do you hear loud noises banging in your house? In the story House Taken Over by Julio Cortazar was a story about two siblings that live in a big wealthy house. Throughout the story the narrator talks a lot about fantasy in the house. Going into the story the first, the narrator talks about marrying his sister to keep the house in their family. Another thing the narrator talked about was the noises coming out of there house.
“... simple marriage of sister and brother was the indispensable end to a line established in this house by our grandparents”(Catrázar 38).The narrator goes on to talk about how marrying his sister so that the house would still be part of their family one of them and not some other person who would destroy it or even sell the house. “...and distant cousins would in inherit the the place, have it torn down, sell the bricks and get rich on the building plot; or more justly and better yet, we would topple it ourselves before it was too late”(Cartázar 38). Whatever …show more content…
Towards the middle of the story all of a sudden the narrator talks about strange noises coming from one side of the house; he refers to them as “they.” The narrator and his sister had to abandon one side of their house because of the “they.” “In that case...we’ll have to live on this side”(Cortázar 40). The noises start to come back the narrator and his sister start to hear it again. Did the narrator and his sister stop to think that are the noises coming out of this house part of it? “We stood listening to the noises, growing more and more sure that they were on our side of the oak door, if not the kitchen then the bath, or in the hall itself at the turn, almost next to us”(Cortázar