Imagination In The Fall Of The House Of Usher

Imagination is a bizarre thing. It helps us when we are bored, it helps us come up with new ideas, and for some kids it gives them a friend. But when there are times we are scared and afraid, imagination can take its toll on people. It can lead people into thinking that something is out to get them, or Pennywise the dancing clown is hiding under their bed’s getting ready to chop off an arm. Adding on, imagination can also distract people from what they are doing and what they want to do when they either are scared or afraid. An imagination can be good for people because whenever we are bored or tired, it will help. And as for children, it either helps them come up with some sort of game, or it gives them an imaginary friend to talk to.Everyone
A example of bad imagination would be if someone is easily paranoid, and any little thing they hear scares them. A quote from Edgar Allan Poe’s “ The Fall of the House of Usher states,” No sooner had these syllables passed my lips, than-as if a shield of brass had indeed, at the moment, fallen heavily upon a floor of silver(...) Completely unnerved, I leaped to my feet(...) (Poe,29). This quote states how the narrator get scared at the sound of what sounds like a loud banging noise. This is because he read the same exact thing of the loud noise in the book he is reading. This also triggered his imagination the think something is in the house, because he had previous where he heard other noises in the Usher’s house from what he read in the story he is reading. Another example would be if someone is home alone and it is night out. And then all of a sudden, that person hears something tap on the window and they think that someone is out to get them. Most ideas from having a bad imagination also starts from what we do in our everyday
For example, if a person plays the ouija board all the time and they keep getting messages saying they they are being haunted, they would get paranoid. And then when they hear something fall when they are home, they will expect it to be the “spirit” that is haunting them. Another example would be scary pop out videos on YouTube. It is funny how it starts off because it is like the video is going to be just a normal video of something, and then there it is! The pop out is either the girl from the Exorcist or some other scary face, and when it comes screaming at the screen, you throw your phone or punch your computer and then for some reason start laughing. At least that is what i did when my dad showed me one of those videos. And following that, people get paranoid and scared at night after they watch a scary pop out video or movie thinking that the little girl from the Exorcist is going to be under their bed and drag them off the