The Haunted

ingeniously in its tone and imagery. Although the ad does strongly use this fallacy and an underlined emotion of fear to persuade its audience, the result is enormously effective. First, the ad starts with lightning flashing as fog sifts through a haunted themed mansion. A poorly lit man emerges from the gloom with a flaming candle in one hand. An organ plays on its own, the man asks, "Do you know me?" (American Express). A scurrying hunchback passes behind him as he continues, "It's…

The Gathering Curiosity, it is seen in everyone, it is part of the human brain. The thing about a story that is full of curiosity is that it is hard to get bored and easy to get lost. Maya is a 17-year-old girl who lives in a small town, Salmon Creek. Salmon Creek is a medical research town as well as very small containing approximately only 200 people, which always makes new people interesting to the town. We see Maya and Daniel who is her best friend thinking a lot about the mysterious death…

when Tom and Huck went to look for buried treasure. They looked under multiple trees but couldn't find anything. They then decided to look in the haunted house. But Huck then remembered it was a Friday “an unlucky day”, so they decided to go back the next day. They met at the same place at the same time. After they had a brief smoke, they went to the haunted house. They first examined the first floor and then went up to the second. Just as they were about to go back down, Injun Joe and another…

Arthur Dimmesdale: The Sinful Pastor Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter features a plethora of diverse characters. Each character presents his or her own set of attributes, such as values, motivations and characteristics. In addition, very few of those characters contribute to the main theme of the entire story, but what they do, say and value depicts the central idea of the story to some degree.Arthur Dimmesdale, a major character within Hawthorne’s novel, clearly portrays this…

Huntington Castle. The castle has interiors that are dark, and the corridors are scary. They are full of suits of armor, stuffed animals, tapestries, and portraits of the family. When you visit Huntington castle, there will be no doubt the castle is haunted. The Durdin-Robertson family has lived in Huntington castle for the last 200 years. The castle is bordered by the Derry and Slaney rivers. The Huntington castle has a dungeon which is not unusual for a medieval castle. The unusual…

narrators somewhat reserved mental state does contribute to this place seeming to have a gloomy sad feeling behind it. The author first sees the outside of the house and already has a pessimistic opinion on it, describing the house as being similar to a haunted mansion. She also reveals that “[The house] is quite alone standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village. It makes me think of English places that you read about, for there are hedges and walls and gates that lock,…

of a rising sun, your eyebrows may join in stupefaction. One by one, each character springs from behind a hill to surprise you with open arms and chillingly cold faces. Their faces are the most terrifying characteristic of them all. They are like haunted porcelain doll or a ghostly painting whose eyes follow you across the room. Horns spring from their heads as primary shapes, their limbs stubby and short, while their plump bodies move groove to the music. The Telettubby is not a graceful…

For example, stories that start off in haunted mansions or in the basement at a morgue. You automatically know that it’s apart of gothicism because it has hit the jackpot on the dingy appearance. Also, the characters in the stories also wear clothing that is black and have a eerie depiction. Writings…

During the time before the murder, he claimed that once conceived, the man’s pale blue, vulture-like eye haunted him day and night. This shows that my client was not in control of his emotions while he considered killing the man. In fact, while killing the man, he acted very sporadically, or without thought, when attacking the man. After he heard the old man…

family, it is just impossible! Right? Wrong. I never thought a cancer diagnosis would be one to affect my life, much less in a positive way. On Friday, October 31, 2014, I had left class to go speak to my National Honor Society sponsor about our Haunted House that was scheduled for that night. It was then that I realized I had missed a call from my dad. I called him back as soon as I could, only to hear that my mom had fallen and broken her femur. My mom had been having some back pains and it…