Essay on Mystery

The Winchester Mystery House is one of California's most interesting attractions. Rumors say the owner built the house to confuse evil spirits and appease pleasant spirits. During the 1900's it was estimated to cost five million dollars to construct but no one knows the true value of the house today. You can now tour the house and decide for yourself if the house is truly haunted. Sarah Winchester was married to William Winchester; son of the inventor of the repeating rifle. The couple lost their infant daughter to a protein deficiency disease. Fifteen years later, Sarah lost her husband to tuberculosis and fell into a deeper depression. She inherited her husband's money and stocks in the Winchester Company. After speaking to a psychic medium, Sarah believed that she had to move…

Dead Until Dark Today I will be doing my book chat on Dead Until Dark authored by Charlaine Harris. Dead Until Dark is the first book to The Southern Vampire Mysteries series. As the rest of the series, this book is narrated by Sookie Stackhouse, a fictional character living in a fictional life. Sookie is a 25 year old waitress at Merlotte’s Bar, living with her grandmother Adele and her older brother Jason in a small fictional town in Louisiana, Bon Temps. In this imaginary world, vampires and…

One Corpse Too Many is a mystery book by Ellis Peters and is the second book in the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael. The book is a murder mystery centered around an extra dead body amongst other dead bodies about to be buried. As there is no specific moral or theme highlighted in the book, I would say it’s not a great book for teaching a lesson. However, with the great characterization and way of immersing the reader into the setting, it is definitely a great book to read just for the sake of…

Beliefs and views greatly affect an individual’s identity. In “The Mystery of Mysteries”, written by Robert Fulghum, the students are being taught about how their brains are very interesting and how they are a mystery. This science lesson will most likely affect the students and their views on themselves, their brains, and many other things, including their career choices and how much they like science class. Lessons that students learn in class and outside of class help form their opinions on…

look interesting to me. It was living rocks that can move, grow, and reproduce, so I drew again. I drew the Anjikuni Lake in Canada. I looked through a couple of sites and decided that I would keep it because it looked interesting to me. I looked at more sites and each site helped me understand the disappearance of the people more and more. It is an unsolved mystery of the disappearing people of Anjikuni village. Joe Labelle, the person who discovered this mystery, had a few guesses, but his…

In the 1949 film The Third Man, protagonist Holly Martins arrives in Vienna to work for his friend Harry Lime only to discover Lime died right before Martins landed in Austria. Without giving too much away, Martins ends up uncovering the circumstances surrounding his childhood chum’s death may be more complex than what’s visible on the surface. The mystery genre -- for both literature and film -- often plays on the idea that the evidence available may not always have the meaning it appears to…

The story “The Dying Detective”by Author Conant Doyle and “ Invitation to a Murder” by Josh Patcher, each story is unique and different. Although the stories are different they both share several similarities. For example, Each story contains situational irony. In the story “The dying Detective” Sherlock was mindful that he was faking his illness. Sherlock faking his illness is situational irony since his sickness was extremely practical, which caused the readers to conclude that he was…

both the story “A Mystery Of Heroism” and the poem “War is kind”. He presents this using intimate imagery, as if he has been in/through a war himself. He mostly uses lyrical expressions in his story “A mystery of heroism”; whereas he is very sardonic in his poem “War is kind”. Either way his tone in both his works is very gloomy through the vivid imagery he uses. In his story “ A Mystery Of Heroism” Crane portrayed Fred Collins being a hero, however he also emphasizes on how Collins is being…

In the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Haddon introduces Christopher Boone. A 15 year old boy who discovers his neighbors, Mrs. Shear’s dead dog in his backyard. In this paper I will explore the reasons why this is actually a murder-mystery novel, why Christopher would be considered autistic, analyze some of the major characters in the novel and how they relate to the themes of the novel, and explain my take of the ending. Christopher at the start of the novel…

Throughout the entire book Walt was a very compassionate man. Walt showed so much compassion for his job, he even sacrificed time with his family and friends so he could do work. Once he got word that there had been a murder in his town, he set his whole heart on trying to solve the mystery. Which, in the end all of his hard work payed off. After spending countless hours at work, missing out on seeing his friends, and even being late to events, he was finally able to solve the murder. However,…