Masters of Horror

We all know it, the feeling that you get when you are immersed in an eerie short story or poem. In some cases, one can even lose track of time when a creepy, dark tale captivates all of their attention. Speaking of dark and creepy tales, Edgar Allen Poe and Joseph Sheridan LeFanu could be considered masters of horror. “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “Masque of the Red Death,” “The Raven,” and “The Black Cat” are all well known works written by Poe. These all have the traditional horror story elements, much like “Schaulken the Painter,” “Carmilla,” and “Green Tea,” which are works written by LeFanu. While both authors excel in horror, there are components to notice when studying their works. Poe and LeFanu both show an interest in the supernatural…

Imagine you had a sister that you wanted to protect desperately. Because she had no one else, it was just you and her. That's what Katniss wanted to do in Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games. Since Katniss wanted to protect her sister primrose from the hunger games because their mother had completely abandoned them when their father died, and she breaks the rules of the district. Katniss wanted to protect her sister prim from the hunger games because their mother had completely abandoned them when…

“You must be willing to sacrifice your whole life to survive.” (Kenneth Waters Jr.) Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games (2008) follows the story of an unselfish girl, Katniss, as she struggles to survive in District 12 coupled with all the advantages that go with it. Throughout the novel Katniss must sacrifice to keep herself and the ones she loves alive. As Waters stated, the sacrifice of your whole life to survive is essential. Sacrifice that leads to survival above all else is the notion…

My first theme is, It won't hurt you to help someone, even if it is a one-time small act of kindness. I chose this theme because Katniss’s mother, Mrs.Everdeen, and Katniss’s little sister were at home, starving to death, waiting on Katniss to come home with something to eat, something to keep them alive. But Katniss had nothing, she had nothing to trade and no money to buy, and even the trash cans were empty giving her nothing. She was so poor she wasn’t even able to walk into the bakery for a…

Katniss Everdeen’s Hunting skills vs Hunger Games Opponents Katniss Everdeen who lives in a dystopia volunteers to enter a game of death for her younger sister and prepares herself for what to expect, however not everything can be prepared for. Katniss used her hunting skills to kill enemies, find food but still wasn't prepared to kill humans that had not affected her before. Secondly, Katniss was in the Hunger Games arena for along time and she needs food to survive so she used…

The Time I Got Stitches The worst thing that’s happened to me in my life was the time I had to get stitches. It was the summer of 2012. The weather was warm, but the wind was blazing. My cousin and I, who happened to live next door to each other in our old apartments were playing volleyball in the middle of the street, while our family were in the house hanging out. The ball we used was not hard so it could move with the wind. There were another set of apartments which everyone called the…

Even though the master tried to denied that it was their child you can tell by their skin tone. In Sira’s case which she is the mother of Siga, due to the fact that Dousika got horny when he’d seen her. As stated in the story “Siga’s mother was only a captive whom Dousika must have lain with one day, aroused by the tightness of her skirt over her buttock” (p. 30). Which indicates that a slave women was obligated to give up the rights to their bodies, and couldn’t refuse intercourse on an account…

Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss M.D. is a persuasive documentation of reincarnation, the past-life, and the afterlife. This book recounts the true story of the author, Brian Weiss, and his experience with reincarnation. He is a prominent American psychiatrist who is married and has two children. He heals his young patient, Catherine, with past-life therapy. In 1966, Brian Weiss graduated Columbia University with a Phi Beta Kappa (Honors), magna cum laude (means "with great praise"). In…

African chattel slavery was deemed extremely dehumanizing to a point where African slaves could not find their own will to resist. Scholars coined the word agency to discuss Blacks not having the mental capacity to make decisions for themselves due to slavery. It is clear how that conclusion of Slavery stripping away agency can be reached; However, Slaves have always demonstrated their opposition and adversity. Those slaves that jumped into the ocean to escape bondage made decisions for…

The Lord and the Slave According to Georg Friedrich Hegel in his Lordship and Bondage, all conscious being fall into a “new relationship” of “the Lord” and “the Slave.” (Hegel, 32) Proving that this relationship is still being seen we use it to analyze the relationships between men and women in Glaspell’s Trifles. Throughout the story, the theme of master and slave are presented through clues that are shown through the relationships between men and women in the story. The first clear clue…