Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

breaks as I feel a light tap on my back, startled I whip my head over my shoulder. “Honey, you’re going second. Right after Marissa”, a woman with a red pixie cut tells me. She’s older with gold rimmed glasses and a crisp white button-up blouse. Oh goodness… I’m getting baptized…

that explores the fascination of creating human life from nothing. Since this book was published in 1818, there have been many different recreations of the story throughout these past centuries. The movie Victor Frankenstein directed by Paul McGuigan is one recreation made in 2015 that has an interesting take on the characters in Shelley’s story. Although the film and novel share the same general plot, the movie loosely follows the novel's characters, creating many similarities and differences…

1. Rose As we all know, roses stand for love. But in A Rose for Emily by offering a rose for Emily, the author is paying his sympathy and respects to Emily. As William Faulkner put it, Emily is an unfortunate woman. When she was young and beautiful, she lived in a tower built by her dominating, stubborn father. It wasted her most beautiful age as a woman. After her father’s death, with the collapse of the powerful tower, Emily did not know what to do and how to live on, so she refused to admit…

they think the author is probably wrapping it up. However, surprisingly the show continued focusing on another issue; Dr. Arizona and Dr. Callie Torres marriage and the widow Dr. Grey’s loneliness. As can be seen, Shonda Rhymes doesn’t tell only the love fairy tells and the hospital environment, she also touches the women’s struggles in a real world; the loneliness, the rejections, and the same-sex marriages’ battle to get acceptance and stick to one another like Arizona and Callie. Dr. Arizona…

they do when we are not around to see. They have the ability to go anywhere and do anything since they have no responsibilities. The one thing no one has ever realized is that they seem homeless but they are keeping up this show to hide their deep and dark secrets they all have hidden from the world. They were all over! The car was leaking gas everywhere! They were coming straight for us. I can't get unbuckled! Why is this not working? Is everyone dead? “Hello! Someone help please!?” Not a…

cannot be refuted. In these mountains many stories and superstitions grow. These stories are passed down and recorded. What remains a mystery is whether these stories are rooted in fact or fiction. Ghost stories range in topic from people, places, houses, and more and the superstitions include ghosts and how people live their lives and beyond. Humans as a group are always intrigued by that which they cannot explain with the roots of folklore and ghost stories going farther back than can be…

Then, I came up with some ideas by comparing both stories in order to achieve a true reality. First is to escape from our own view of reality. Secondly, we must accept the truth of a reality and face the reality wisely. At last, we have to be open for new changes and learn from everything that comes across in our lives. In the end all of these stories brings into the question of the world we know. Do we really know the world we live in or is it a false…

This story is a perfect example of why his stories are sexist, arrogant, and poor versions of what the tale could be. Perrault’s version of the BRB tales starts by talking about Bluebeard and his unfortunate looks, unlike the other tales that start with woman. After asking his…

However, this is not fear of the dark itself but of what might be lurking in it. Humans are afraid of going too far into space, too deep in the ocean, illnesses that doctors do not understand, and simply trying something new. These all can be attributed to a fear of the unknown. This very…

as well? In the song “Dog Days are Over” by Florence and the Machine, the artists use a creative mix of the rhetorical devices ethos, logos, and pathos to convey a message to the audience that they shouldn’t run from true happiness, no matter how scary it seems, and that it can only be attained by letting go of all one’s fears and inhibitions. This piece is directed towards an audience comprised of those who have hard lives. The song itself takes a very upbeat tone…