Mansion

are no choices? In a futuristic world, people are forced to live in a mansion and treated as slaves. In Wither, by Lauren Destefano, a virus is spreading to young men who are turning 25 and women who are turning 20. Rhine is a teenage girl who is kidnapped by a scientist named Vaughn, and she’s given to his son as a wife. His son, Linden, has three wives already. Rhine is forced to marry Linden and is trapped within Vaughn’s mansion. Although she is treated to beautiful clothing and delicious…

suffers from a mental state that separates him from sanity, and Lady Madeline, is thought to be dead, or buried alive. The main theme of this story is dark and dying. It focuses on the relationship between the twins, Roderick and Madeline, and the mansion in which they live. This story is told in first person narrative by a nameless boyhood friend of Roderick’s, whom the readers know nothing about. This allows the readers to inject themselves into the story to follow it as if they are the…

Luther Heggs is a typesetter at the Courier Express the local paper in Kansas, but he wants to be a reporter. One night, observing what he believes to be a killing outside of an old, haunted house known as the Simmons Mansion, Heggs books it to the police station with his newly found info. Sadly, as he explains the details of his story to the Chief of Police, the murder victim walks into the room, a local drunk who had merely been knocked unconscious by his wife, who had brought him in to be…

in her less drunken moods, she would sit me down and tell me all about her time in New York. I was only 5 years old when her and my father lived in the most beautiful mansion twenty miles away from the big city. She told me stories of a man named Gatsby. He would throw the best parties in New York. We live in Virginia now. The mansion…

the House of Usher, an extremely eerie, menacing mansion owned by his boyhood friend, Rodrick Usher. He reunites with his old companion, who is suffering from an unbearable disease of the mind. Rodrick wrote to his friend, asking for help. The narrator learns that Roderick and his sister Madeline are the last of the Usher bloodline. A family well- known for their passions and dedication to the arts. The narrator admires the frightening mansion of Usher before heading in. Roderick…

In the novel, The House of the Seven Gables, Phoebe Pyncheon, the main character, visits her cousin, Hepzibah, at the seven gabled mansion. Her visit to the gloomy mansion is one where she makes living almost bearable to an ordinary person by drastically lightning up the atmosphere of the mansion. She certainly does her very best to make Hepzibah and Clifford comfortable and more human. Throughout the novel, Phoebe exhibits the character traits of being cheerful, helpful, and selfless. Phoebe…

between two huge mansions, the homes of these characters very closely rebound what kind of individual they really are. Gatsby’s residence really brings out that he is quite the garish man, his house being very showy in style. The house that Nick currently owns displays that he is there for a specific purpose, being from a well-to-do family that owns a hardware wholesale business , he definitely could have went and bought a much nicer place. The Buchanans ginormous georgian colonial mansion that…

Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe were both writers who embodied the writing style of the Romantic era. In comparison, each of the writing styles of Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe are very similar, in regard to their extensive use of descriptive passages. But they are vastly different due to the settings they use to develop their stories. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, written by Washington Irving and “The Fall of the House of Usher”, written by Edgar Allan Poe, are both tales in…

Mitch Clark Mrs. Spampinato English III-6th period 4 December 2014 The End of a Noble Family A man is riding his horse to find a mansion that an old friend of his lives in. When the man gets to the mansion he notices how old and how rundown it looks, he also finds his friend very ill inside. While in the house the man sees his friend’s sister reminding him of many years ago. Roderick the man’s friend reminded him of his sister and he explains how none of the doctors can figure out what is wrong…

in very big and opulent mansions, while Nick lives in a tiny shack. All of them are very content with where they live, and that shows what kind of people they are. They all differ in what pleases them and what they think they need in a home. Jay Gatsby, the Buchanans, and Nick are three different people in personality, social position, and lifestyle, and those differences…