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    act of insane bravado, he raps so heavily upon the bricks that entomb his wife, that to his abject terror, a voice from within the tomb answered. At first, it was a muffled and broken cry, but then it swelled into an "utterly anomalous and inhuman howl a wailing shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, such as might have arisen only out of hell” (Poe 5). Upon tearing down the wall on which the narrator has rapped, the police discover the decayed remains of the woman and the black cat whom the…

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    Gothic Stereotypes

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    Open on an average fall day late evening with the last light of the day quickly fading away. There’s a granite mausoleum lined with roman columns containing a myriad of gothic gargoyles. It stands underneath the nearby tree with the first wave of colored leaves starting to gather around its base and surrounding area. Behind the mausoleum is a hill containing rows of tombstones that rises out of frame. One of the doors to the mausoleum is ajar revealing the warm light of fire inside and the…

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    and graphite grey. Dull boring colours, there were no bright colours to be seen. It felt like someone was watching me; the floor boards around me were creaking! I could hear colossal echoing footsteps neighbouring me everywhere I went. I heard the howl of an…

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    earth and not in hell, “that you was suffered to awake again in this world, after you closed your eyes to sleep. Lastly he uses imagery to explain how people are suffering without having God, “while you have cause to mourn for sorrow of heart, and howl for vexation of spirit.” He also uses not so good ethos to explain how how the people are acting towards God, and how God feels about it, the sermon states, “God has so many different unsearchable ways of taking wicked men out of the world and…

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    On the inside of the bed, next to the wall, he could feel with his hands, the comfortable piece of lead pipe. Outside the world was still except for the weeds that swayed with the frosty breeze and the occasional howl of victory from a wolf who got his prey. In the stillness of the frigid night, behind twisted, pale trees, a dark silhouette emerged from the shadows. He passed under jagged crystals while his breaths, for a moment, hung suspended in front of him before they disappeared. The snow…

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    very proud of how Ricco was handling himself. She liked the fact that he was not afraid of anything and wished that his friends could be more of a man like him. “I don’t know why I let you talk me into this Ricco,” argues Eric when a very faint howl is heard throughout the deserted street. Each of them had all been told at one time or another never to travel far from the village. They knew the severe consciences of such actions, but now all they thought about was getting out alive.…

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    A group of girls are caught conjuring potions and reciting spells in the woods by the town minister, Reverend Parris. Scared of the consequences, the girls lie and say they were controlled by the Devil himself. Along with the Devil, the girls say names of people in the town, accusing them of witchcraft. If the people deny performing witchcraft, they are hanged. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Abigail Williams and Mary Warren will go to extreme lengths to gain power, including lying and…

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    Hows did Matt survive the hardships that he’d faced? A suspenseful novel written by Nancy Farmer named The House of the scorpion. The world that Matt lives in is the unthinkable in most eyes but is a reality to Matt. Celia, Maria, Tam Lin and El Patron all affected Matt throughout the book and made him who he is now. Matt is treated less than everyone. A drug lord that loves himself and who rules everything and everyone that passes him by, who only moves in ways that benefits him. El Patron the…

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    particular example of the mixture of hard rock and folk blues that defines the album is on the song “Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You”. The style of each musician is very loud and powerful. Robert Plant has a very high pitched wail for a man and uses it as an epic howl on their songs. His screaming is legendary in rock music. Jimmy Page was an extremely talented blues guitarists who had a talent for making up catchy riffs and playing fast solos. John Bonham was famous for his loud drumming that often…

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    His howl strikes me like a clap of thunder, reverberating from my ears down to the bottom of my stomach and prompting glances from all corners of the Cardiac Care Unit. His face is worn—a map of wrinkles carved deep into his skin—and he is dying. I dash behind the head nurse, keeping pace as we rush to his aid. “He really needs someone to talk to,” she reveals, as we enter the patient’s room. The face before me is petrified. As I pull up a chair, his hands shoot up, his eyes fill with fear, and…

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