Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

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    believe that this is nothing more than a scary story to tell around Halloween time. At a second glance, it is revealed that “The Raven” is strung together by many life events, symbolisms, and emotions that are haunting in their own beautiful way. Upon looking at the rhetorical situation of it, the reader can get a better understanding of the poem’s true purpose. The setting, characters, and descriptive words Poe applied throughout his works are what give them a dark, mysterious tone. He…

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    Scary American Environment

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    Without it, and to be frankly honest, the movie would feel like shit. This two are prime examples of a scary environment. They are both dark and even though there is a bit of light you still feel like there’s none at all. That’s because you feel so small with the little fire as everything around you is pitch black. But in horror movies there would not even be a single light…

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    In the Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a group of boys are stranded on an island after a plane crash and must survive the islands, and as the story progresses, each other. There are many motifs and symbols throughout the book, but one of the most important ones is the beast. The beast came in many forms over the course of the novel. It started off as a monster in the sea, then on the land and in the air and eventually as the head of a sow. The beast represents inner human evil because at…

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    When one thinks of the word scary or suspenseful, they probably think of sitting up in their seats during a scary movie. Maybe one would think of their worst nightmare. By reading this paper one will discover that Edgar Allen Poe, author of The Tell Tale Heart thinks of something stranger and much darker when thinking of something scary or suspenseful. Edgar Allen Poe did not have an easy life. He lived a life of let down and doubt; having both his parents die when he was young. When…

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    The Significance of the Title Have you ever thought that a story might be really spooky based on the title, but you find out that it actually is not. Sometimes the title is not a misnomer when it does this, but it is the reader that misinterprets it. In Ambrose Bierce’s, “An Occurrence on Owl Creek Bridge,” the title leads the reader to believe that it is about a bridge with a haunting story to tell. What is so special about the title that it leads one to believe that; what was the “occurrence…

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    Tim Burton Essay

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    about Tim Burton’s writing style; Tim Burton was influenced by the works of Dr. Seuss, Edgar Allen Poe, and Vincent pride. He worked Poe’s dark nature and ambience into his stories. In many of the things he directed he implanted the rhyming and simplicity of Dr. Seuss's stories. And he looked up to Vincent price for his style. Overall Mr. Burton's work is eerie, dark, and quite haunting for the reader. However he has a faint childlike theme in his works, Such as the work of Disney, Even though…

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    Edgar Allen Poe’s writing is influenced by his life which brings about the terrifying topics in his pieces of work. As the video states “…tales of terror were born out of a life filled with tragedy.” Tragedy had occurred so many times in Poe’s life. Every woman he loved died of tuberculosis and his family was poor. The beginning of his life was miserable which changed his whole outlook on life. He could never get his catastrophes out of his mind. Another segment of the video states “…in Poe’s…

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    they encounter alien androids, which begin to hunt them down. They are chased through all the pubs, encountering even more androids along the way. When they reach the final pub, they trigger an explosion that sends the world back to the Dark Ages. Can you tell how…

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    as we all are in reality. But since polarization dominates the child's mind, it also dominates fairy tales" (Bettelheim 9). The purpose of a fairytale is to teach morals in a memorable way. One way to ensure that it is memorable is to include dark, scary characters. The appearance of the characters is essential. Beauty is an important characteristic in fairytales and the bad characters are indicated by being ugly or different. This helps distinguish the good and bad characters from each other…

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    What is the plot of this story? Use your own words to summarize the plot in one thorough paragraph: The plot of the story is about a prince named Prince Prospero. Prince Prospero was a very rich man. There was a illness spreading rapidly throughout their town killing everyone. The illness was called the red death and was described as fatal and hideous. The Prince thought the only escape from the red death was to lock himself away in his castle with many of his friends. To pass time they drank…

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