The Haunted

Evil is a present theme in each of these gothic style stories. They all clearly portray the sinful nature of mankind and the wicked each person has within them. The “Fall of the House of Usher” is unique in a way because of the haunted house feeling Poe gives. Though it deals with fear and spiritual entities, the lay out Poe describes so vividly separates this horror story from the rest. “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Minister’s Black Veil” are the most similar due to the corresponding theme of…

Trauma victims are bound to relive and revisit traumatic events uncontrollably due to the belatedness and latency of trauma, that what is known as “repetition compulsion” serves to be “a compulsive mode of mimesis paradoxically and impossibly seeks to convene and fix once and for all images of the past” (Klein 141). Trauma survivors are incapable to lead a normal life after having gone through their traumatic past, and they could only revisit their trauma to try to overcome it. There are…

There is no question in my mind whether nurture plays a huge role in someone’s development; it played a huge role in mine. While I don’t let my past define me, it changed the way I view the world. My childhood was once a happy one, but not a lot of happy things last in my lifetime; that I figured out all on my own. On the other hand, nature explains why I act the way I do. I’ve been in denial for a while now that I inherited genes from my parents because I don’t want to be anything like them.…

"Peeled" is a young adult novel by Joan Bauer which focuses on the adventures of aspiring journalist Hildy Biddle. Residing in upstate New York's town of Banesville, sixteen year-old Hildy is the best writer for her school's paper, The Core. The daughter of deceased reporter Mitch Biddle, Hildy aspires to be a journalist. She is a student at Banesville High, and is well aware of the ghost stories that are circulating around the old Ludlow House. Banesville is a community known for its farming,…

In the novel The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien, the author, is sending the reader a message of the power of war. O’Brien is saying that the war leaves a bigger burden than the heavy objects the soldiers had to “hump” during the war. In “Notes,” he shares with the reader the past of one of Tim’s friends from the war, and how his life was disjointed from it. In the chapter, Norman Bowker says in a letter that Tim should write about “a guy who feels like he got zapped over in that shit hole,”…

The Indian civilization that once lived at the Cahokia Mound historical Site is believed to have reached a population of over 22,000 people. Archeologist and scientist have speculated on the purpose of each mound located on the site. Some are thought to have been used to build residences upon. The taller the mound the greater your status was in the society. Others are thought to have been used to mark changes in the seasons and important occurrences though out the year. The once…

“We survive here in dependence on others” a quote said by Dalai Lama XIV, reflects the behaviour of human society. On that account, since the beginning of time, humans have been conditioned to continually trust and form bonds with one another. To show the consequences of this nature, Kate Chopin, William Hunt, and Margaret Atwood use several different literary devices such as contrasting imagery, symbolism, and a pessimistic mood in order to convey the theme: the devotion an individual might…

The Blinding American Dream James Truslow Adams, the author of The American Dream, explains that "The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller... with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement” (Adams). F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays this dream and ideology throughout his novel, The Great Gatsby. The frequent usage of eyes in Fitzgerald’s writing parallels Nick Carraway's stages of seeing the American Dream, moving from blindness…

Like Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher”, the house in Cortázar’s short story “House Taken Over” is a family house. “We liked the house, because, apart from it being old and spacious (in a day when old houses go down for a profitable auction off their construction materials), it kept the memories of great-grandparents, our paternal grandfather, our parents and the whole childhood”(128). The formation of the main characters, siblings like in Poe’s story, and their connection to the…

Expressing emotions through art is often what we think of when it comes to creating a painting. For Farber and Dumontier, instead of working alone, they collaborated with each other to create little panels that includes their social views that reflects the society. Farber and Dumontier had their little Wednesday tradition of meeting up every Wednesday if possible, and have fun. Basically they put on music, have a couple of beers and just paint. Farber and Dumontier’s work has caught my attention…