Horror short stories

BOOK REVIEW J.ASWIN KUMAR E.no:U101113FBT003 Whitney, My love Judith McNaught WHITNEY, MY LOVE is a romance of misdirection that will leave any reader breathless until the final pages. The first successful novel by the Author Judith M’Naught in 1985.Being unaware of the rules that most of the romance books followed she had her unique way of introducing the…

three subcategories of Naturalism, realism, psychological reactions of characters, and Charles Darwin’s “Survival of the Fittest” theory, throughout “The Open Boat.” At many points throughout the story, the men on the ship struggle to control and combat the forces of nature. At the beginning of the story, the waves are “barbarously...tall,” which creates a “problem” for the crew in navigating the “small boat” (728). The huge waves cause riding in the boat to be similar to riding “a bucking…

Drunk As A Skunk Crazy Man I. II. Poe writes the entire short story “The Black Cat” from the narrator’s point of view while he is trying to convince people that he is not a madman for what he has done. He starts the short story off by writing about how he does not expect for people to believe what they are reading. The narrator goes on to write about how he is not mad when he writes, “Yet, mad am I not-and very surely do I not dream”. He then goes on to talk about how he will not live tomorrow…

Chapter one Anita Desai as a novelist Anita Desai is one of the most powerful and distinguished Indian English novelists. She has an extraordinary sharpness and penetration of vision. Her writings have drawn world-wide critical attention. Anita Desai has added a new dimension to the Indian English fiction: the exploration of human psyche. She is endowed with searching psychological insight and often peeps into the inner recesses of the psyche, rather than merely presenting the outer spectacle…

truth about the grandmother is that she is not good, nor a lady, and it’s evident throughout the story. While The Misfit is an evil, un-sympathetic serial killer, readers can agree, while he is not good, he certainly has a lot he can teach the grandmother. In O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, O’Connor conveys that goodness resides in actions, not appearances. In spite of all the horrors and malice The Misfit inflicts, he holds strong convictions, he is consistent in his values, is…

The editing choices in Wes Anderson's “The Royal Tenenbaums” serves to introduce and create an understanding of the various main character personalities, focusing specifically on Margot and Richie Tenenbaum. In the clip of “The Royal Tenenbaums”, the editing consists of a series of pans and tilts, long takes, lens zooms, dolly movement, cutaway shots, cross-cuts, and jump cuts to explain the history of Margot Tenenbaum's life, creating a sense of curiosity and understanding for the audience as…

Bill: You can’t be a freak if it is not your nature: Iscariot tried- and he finished by choke, But Herod could be such without a failure- He’s king of the Jews, and, moreover, of mocks. Mirror (makes a gesture «jokes aside, stop it»- his further story should sounds depressive and depressing. Mirror sings in such manner, as if the talks about the things, which he’s remembering): When I keep my silence, He smiles at me: I see all the violence That someone can see- In…

tied down to a track meet their fate from an oncoming trolley train, or redirect the train to a single man who is also strapped down onto the track by pulling the lever?” Edmonds refers this questions as the “Spur” throughout the rest of the book, short for “Spur of the Moment.”A majority of people agree that they would rather kill the one man in order to save the lives of five because they believe in utilitarianism, which is the idea that the greatest good will come from benefitting the…

etc., such as Christopher Columbus’s letters about his voyage to the “New world”. - Anglo (New England) settlers’ books, sermons, journals, narratives, and poetry Native American / American Indian oral literature / oral tradition creation stories（起源神话） trickster tales（恶作剧者传奇） rituals / ceremonies（典仪） songs / chants（曲词） Anglo Settlers’ Writings Highly religious and pragmatic - John Smith, founder of Jamestown, Virginia; Pocahontas - John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian…

Song of Solomon is based on a story that Morrison heard from her maternal grandparents and it is imbued with folk myths and legends from the African Diaspora. The author draws on Afro-American legends about Africans who could fly and who used this marvellous and magical ability to escape from slavery in America. Stories about Africans who either flew or jumped off slave ships as well as those who saw the horrors of slavery when they landed in America and in their anguish…