The Fall of the House of Usher

The animation video gave the best representation of the story " The Tell Tale Heart " . One of the things that they did that was alike the story is that they use the same beginning introduction dialog . Also , he used the mattress to kill the old man . Another thing he did the same was that he welcomed the officers in , and he acted calmly around them . They also had limited light sources , and . So they used lamps , and candles instead of electricity . The narrator also heard heartbeats , which…

Comparing “The Last Rung on the Ladder” to “You Found Me” At the beginning of the story “The Last Rung on the Ladder” by Stephen King, the narrator exposes the reader to background information. The story mainly focuses on “the barn accident”. At the time, Katrina, also know as Kitty by close friends and family, was eight years old and her older brother, Larry, also the narrator was ten. When their parents would leave, they would go out into the barn and climb to the third story of the hay loft.…

"Tell-Tale Heart Literary Analysis" In the “Tell-Tale Heart” Edgar Allan Poe tells a story about an insane man that kills a man for having a “vulture eye”. The main character hides his crime from the police and starts conversing with them.Then he starts to hear a heartbeat. It grows louder and louder until it drives him to confessing. Poe uses dramatic syntax, a sinister setting, and vivid imagery to create a mood of suspense in his story. The author utilizes dramatic syntax in his story. There…

Edgar Allan Poe, a dark and mysterious writer, a poet, a “subsequent” author. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Poe was left alone at a young age, with the disappearance of his father, and death of his mother early in life. Already we see Poe has been through a seemingly dark life. He published his first book at eighteen and made not a dollar. Went in the military and was dismissed after skipping classes. His life lives on with his writing, not life from the grave.…

neon bulbs. Or partied with friends until our bodies could take no more. Back then I had friends, family, and an inviolable, snug house. The best thing of…

The concept of triumph and tragedy are present in many works of literature such as, Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, and “The Stolen Party”, by Liliana Heker. These novels and this short story present a focus of being triumphant at times and getting stuck in a tragedy. You cannot know what it means to have a triumph if you have never known a tragedy. Rudolfo Anaya’s classic novel Bless Me, Ultima, demonstrates a young boy whose life has been nothing but…

Hello Mr. Peters, After reading the “Note On The Play” as well as “Equus” itself, I believe that Equus is effective in creating a fictional world in which the crime could be portrayed in a way that the audience could both understand and strive to analyze. By itself, the news of a highly disturbed man blinding six horses is straightforward and dark. Individuals who hear about this crime wonder what motivated the criminal, but they usually attribute the act to the criminal’s mental state and…

We Die at Dawn: Interior Droning Writing for Interiors Journal on the subject of interior design in Expressionist film, Architectural Designer, Mehruss Jon Ahi states, “These films focus on a reality that has been invaded and plagued by the irrational and cynical thoughts of its characters, and consequently, the sets in these films resemble their distress.” (Ahi, IntJournal.com) No other Expressionist film represents this stated distress better than Robert Weine’s 1920 classic, The Cabinet of…

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse and The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan are both great sources of information about the Dust Bowl during the ”Dirty Thirties. ”̣ However, they are very different in style. Out of the Dust is a fictional story written in a poem format and uses extensive figurative language. While The Worst Hard Time is more of a textbook format book that gives more in depth detail, background detail of the Dust Bowl, and uses eyewitness accounts to describe the horrors of the…

Recently in class, we have been reading short stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. There are many allusions, allegories, and symbols in his work, so we have been focusing on finding those. Two repeating leitmotifs in his work are the devil and evil. These reoccur in many of his pieces, including Minister’s Black Veil, Scarlet Letter, and Young Goodman Brown. After reading both Minister’s Black Veil and Young Goodman Brown, we can see that the devil is a very important reference that is found…