Stephen Krashen

Rod Serling’s message to the readers of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” is to not accuse people without careful consideration. In the story a “meteor” flew above maple street. Everyone's power went dead, even the portable radios went dead. Then a little boy, Tommy started talking about aliens so everyone started accusing random people of being aliens. In the story les was the first to be accused when his car started automatically, but no one else’s car would start. I know this because In…

Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage Biographical Summary From 1871 until the end of the nineteenth century, Stephen Crane graced the world with his literary presence. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, as the son of a presiding elder of the Methodist Conference. Crane was the youngest in a family of fourteen children; his sister Agnes was often his sole caretaker. Throughout his boyhood, he traveled from city to city, under the heavy influence of the Methodist religion; he…

The experience of reading Crane’s The Open Boat, isn’t distinctly adrenaline pumping nor is it overwhelmingly emotional. The reader, as well as the men in the boat, do end in a starkly different scenario than when they began their journey, but the movement is often hard to pin point. In fact, the narrative is contrasted so that there are gaps, physical and literary as well as tonally. Shawn Michelle Smith investigates a similar scenario in her analysis of Muybridge’s photo framing. In a series…

Mouth grasped open, trepidation creeps in, eyes bugged huge, and a feeling of increasing dread is what is felt as you read along. These are all the appeals that captivate the reader into the world of gothic novels. We hate just to love these elements although they are what makes the reader so enticed we want more. The gothic literature presented in Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier allows the reader to feel a sense of terror and fear because of the clever usage of imageries of the natural world,…

Stephen Hawking once said, “My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.” Stephen Hawking is one of the smartest humans in the world and also has ALS. ALS is a debilitating disease that has no known cure, but Hawking doesn’t let that stop him. Christopher in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime also has somewhat of a…

Gothic literature has an incredibly vast and important history. It is based off of gothic architecture and became a genre in literature in the late 1700s. This genre was created by the rejection of predictability and this sent writers to the “murky past”, The Middle Ages, to write about (Snodgrass). The time period was such a great inspiration for gothic literature since it was very contrasting with great improvements and horrible crimes. Later in the 18th century gothic literature switched from…

I was at the doctor's office with my mom today, and naturally, I reached for one of the dozens of magazines to occupy me. When I flipped it open, there was a description of a Netflix horror show, Dark, that read, “Like a sausage casing that doesn’t care one bit if it will burst from overstuffing, this German import has elements of Stranger Things… Set in a dank little town… it involves missing children [and] a cave that occasionally belches a terrifying roar…” First of all, I am not convinced…

Michael Myers is A Monster to The American Society As you grow older your views on what you fear change. As a child, I developed a fear of little things such as ghost, the dark, etc. Once I grow into an adults I developed a of things observed on a daily. Americans between the age group of children and adolescents introduce themselves to bigger fears by watching movies that replay on the already experienced fears. For example: Freddy Krueger, Jason, Vampires, Werewolves, etc. The movies being…

Horror is a genre that seizes a reader and plunges them into a fictional world created by the author’s grotesque, dark imagination. The author forms this gripping world through layers of theme, literary structure, and other captivating elements and symbols. In We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, the author uses these elements in a profound and sophisticated manner, leaving the reader chilled to the bone without quite grasping how or why. Jackson creates an unsettling work of…

In the horror novel Dracula, Bram Stoker utilizes the symbolic elements in the story to create the theme that any good can defeat any evil(or the mystery solving process). Specifically, the symbolic elements help establish the integrity and beliefs of the main characters. The allusions to christianity and garlic help characterize Dracula as the blood-sucking demon he is. The novel begins with Jonathan staying in a town near Castle Dracula. The night before he travels, the innkeeper “tak[es] a…