Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

things but through works of art and literature, we can see why, providing us with understanding of what can and cannot be understood. The story of Little Red Riding Hood goes beyond its infamous moral to always listen to your parents and not talk to strangers. Through it’s different versions, Riding Hood is a parallel to real life situations…

like nothing, but a childish fairy tale, but has undertones of mature themes. This story utilizes fictional themes, but still capture the morale of how difficult growing up can be. Alice is an ordinary girl who falls down the “rabbit hole” into a psychotic world of madness and impossible situations. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a remarkably creative tale that uses its fictional situations to reflect the dark trial of adulthood and discovering identity. Before revealing the themes of…

Terry Ives is Mama. I talked to her. Mama can’t talk but I could tell what she wanted me to do. She wanted me to talk to my lab sister, Kali. I just know. I don’t know why though. I remember Kali from the rainbow room at the lab when we were young. I went to see her. I got to a building where there were other people…

loved and he dies from an overdose. The tears rolled down my cheeks uncontrollably, and everything went blurry. The hospital lights were so bright that they made my eyes burn. I just broke down and cried. This happened six years ago and there’s the story. One day we had decided that we should rob a bank. I know, I’m already rich but I needed the excitement in my life and I wanted to do it with him. It was my idea anyways. My name is Laurel Lancaster,…

and China. They did not think the afterlife was a good place to be or that their former kings lived well in peace. The Epic of Gilgamesh shows their understanding of the underworld. In this story Enkidu, a man made by the gods, sleeps in sickness and dreams about going to the underworld. When he wakes up he tells Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, about the darkness and the horrible conditions in which former kings were in. Enkidu relates the underworld as a place full of darkness where people ate their…

A literature usually tells an extraordinary story, no matter through a book or a movie. It is not only a storyteller, but also “ideas about life” (Griffith, 2010), defined as “theme” in literary advice. Theme is one of the spirit of the literature, delivering writer’s message about life lesson to learn. In Abrahamson’s Room, the movie overthrows the stereotypes of people about “kidnapping” movie, focusing on how the characters fall victim to it and how brilliant is the police to tackle with the…

The difference being that you experience a whole different set of emotions. When I go to a hospital to see someone, I get a warning from my brain that tells me I shouldn’t be here and that I should leave before something bad happens. I am not quite sure where and why I get that feeling, but it happens every time I a single foot in a hospital. This is the type of feeling that I usually get when I entered…

Philosopher Stone. Harry and his friends try to figure out what Snape is been trying to do but can 't think of a plan in action. Hermione, Harry, and Neville are told to go to the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid for their detention because of the dragon story caused them trouble. Hagrid then points out traces of unicorn blood. After researching and discovering in the forest about the unicorn blood, Harry finds out that Voldemort was drinking the unicorn blood and he could obtain the Philosopher…

self-pride was now entirely restored… and since nothing could now be discovered he did not shrink from an encounter with the eyes of judges, and allowed no thoughts of his own to keep him from an attitude of manfulness. He had performed his mistakes in the dark, so he was still a man.” He feels that if no one knows about his cowardly action, then it is like it never happened at all. Throughout The Red Badge of Courage the idea of heroism is questioned. All Henry wants is glory and the title of…

struggles, rediscover themselves, and learn about love. As the narrative unfolds, the sounds and lighting styles add richness to the text, which affects the audience’s interaction with the text. The dialogue in the film is a literal sound that tells the story (Silverblatt et al., 2009). The characters in the text have varying speech patterns based on their personalities and role in the film. The women speak softly with a medium or high pitch voice, while the men’s voices are loud with a low…