The Red Room, By H. G. Wells

In the story “The Red Room” written by H.G. Wells, the theme is fear, human fear, the people are scared because they are thinking they are scared by the “ghost” that is haunting them in that room. The three main areas where H.G. Wells shows there is a ghost haunting everybody is in the exposition, the climax, and the resolution. First, in the exposition it portrays a boy who thinks he is fearless. He is strong believer that ghosts do not exist and how he can spend a night in the Red Room. The Red Room was a place where people say there are ghosts and other tales, it is located in a old castle. The exposition is telling the reader these details to make a spooky image and give the reader some information on the story. In “The Red Room” the theme is fear as told before the haunted Red Room in which the boy thinks he can spend a night without being afraid.
After a while when it becomes night fall and the candles are lit, a fire is keeping him nice and warm. The candles go out, the only light from the castle is from the small fire that was keeping him warm, but that fire was doing more than keeping him warm, it was giving him hope that there was still nothing to worry about, that he is fearless. Until, that small fire went out, that is when he realized he had to do something, he was afraid, he was fearing that there was a ghost or something that was going to get him. Now, the boy’s main task was to get out of that castle while he still