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How Does The Sixth Sense Change Throughout The Story
How does the way things change in a story scare us? Things changing in a story make us unaware of what will happen in the story. By having things change in the story you create a feel of uncertainty and it causes the reader to almost be lied too. For example if i say the car is red and it's really blue are you gonna trust the rest of the story. Are you going to feel safe or are you going to be unaware of the rest of the story or movie. Changes can happen so fast you may not even realize it or see or understand them. Changes can happen to the characters, environment or really anything in the story. There are a lot of changes in the house of usher, from the time he was riding his horse to the house or from the time the house crumbled. The narrator mentions how they were friends in their childhood and how they were always so happy. Usher had changed, “He had a mental disorder which had oppressed him” (Poe 3). So what the narrator remembered from her childhood had changed. The narrator shows up fairly happy to see his old friends but in the story it states that “I started to feel a gloom over my spirit” (Poe 5). The …show more content…
The movie starts out sweet and nice but then it changes to the doctor being shot and he dies. Cole on the other hand knows the doctor is dead and cole knows because he can see the dead. Cole sees the doctor but know one else can see the doctor because he is a ghost he is dead. Transformation is happening because the doctor is slowly realizing he is dead and Cole tells the doctor that the ded only want to see the good thing never the bad. Well towards the end of the movie the doctor finds out that he died because Cole mentions the easiest way to talk to his wife is while shes sleeping. The doctor then realizes he is dead because of the gunshot in the beginning of the movie he hen tries to talk to his wife and realizes it's all gone his life was

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