fashion." What in the text indicates the writer is male or female? "I penetrated to the place and ventured near enough to the ruined cabin to throw a stone against it‚ and ran away to avoid the ghost which every well-informed boy thereabout knew haunted the spot." What in the text indicates assumptions about women and female roles in society? "In that eastern country whence he came he had married‚ as was the fashion‚ a young woman in all ways worthy of his honest devotion‚ who shared the dangers
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I”ve never seen a ghost. but like they say‚ there is a first for everything. So many myths told‚ yet no proof of it being real. The story goes‚ There is a well-known abandoned house in Texas believed to be haunted. No one has actually been inside the house. They say that there is a mother in a black gown longing‚ crying for her children whom she drowned in her bathtub then hung herself afterwards. Why? No one knows. One day I decided to gather a group of four friends and ask who would like to come
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both plays‚ concepts of sanity and otherworldly figures come into play. Hamlet is literally haunted by the ghost of his father‚ and fluctuates between lucidity and passionate fervor. At certain points in the play‚ Hamlet’s sanity is questioned by many. At the same time‚ Willy from Death of a Salesman creates memories and seems unable to accurately perceive the world around him. Willy and Biff are also haunted by memories of the past (mainly revolving around Willy’s marital disloyalty) though these
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needed someone to blame for the unfortunate event‚ but Lois struggles to let go of her friend. She is also haunted by the wilderness. The protagonist cannot believe that Lucy has died‚ and for this reason she has been living two lives. At the end of the story‚ Lois can finally accept the wilderness as part of herself. Death by Landscape” features a widowed mother‚ Lois‚ who is haunted by the wilderness and the disappearance of her friend‚ Lucy‚ years earlier. At the beginning of the story‚ Lois
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Stephen King and Algernon Blackwood both implement the use of ghosts in their horror stories to terrify their audience. Horror stories have several different themes and sub-genres‚ one of which is the sub-genre of ghost stories. Blackwood is one author who used ghosts in his writings quite often‚ and Stephen King‚ maybe the most well-known writer of horror stories‚ also uses ghosts and spirits in his books. With both these authors being horror story writers‚ there are some aspects which are comparable
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The Characteristics of a Armature Detective Why are we so fascinated with detective fiction? Is it because we are simply interested in the crimes themselves? Or is it because we are drawn to the characters within the stories that have characteristics that we desperately wish we could portray ourselves. The armature detective is one that we follow more often and have characteristics that pull us in more. As said in The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction “they may be armatures‚ but
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throughout the works of Edgar Allan Poe include the pervasive theme of death and decay‚ which is almost always a staple in Gothic fiction‚ the theme or presence of madness‚ insanity or other internal chaos‚ the supernatural in all of its forms‚ and haunted or creepy locations. Most stories by Edgar Allan Poe possess most if not all of these gothic qualities. One of the most prominent themes that haunts the Gothic fiction of Edgar Allan Poe is death and the associated process of decay and this is one
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The Woman in Black is a gothic novel written by Susan Hill. The characters in the novel mature and grow throughout the story mentally and emotionally. Reading about the characters the audience becomes aware of the text’s issues. The issues in the text are supported by the protagonist Arthur Kipps growth and the antagonist Jennet Humfyre. Two issues in the text include: The fight against good and evil and Revenge. Arthur Kipps is the main character. He goes through the most changes emotionally
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their parents or guardians they have lived with in the past have either been wicked or crazy! Hansel and Gretel discover a spooky and haunted forest where they decide to live. Unfortunately‚ Hansel makes A LOT of mistakes throughout the story‚ and Gretel forgives him along their horrific and bloody journey. After all of the bad and abusive parents they had‚ witches‚ haunted forest‚ dragons‚ magic‚ and terror‚ they have encountered they are clever enough to create their own “Happily Ever After”. Reflection:
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“The lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “first they came” by Martin Neimoller are both great story’s where the theme is standing up for what is right isn’t always the easiest path. In the lottery Mrs. Hutchinson wins and because she followed the crowd and played the game. And that doesn’t work out to well‚ and when the speaker in first they came does what everyone else does he is nearly executed. When the Hutchinson family wins the lottery Tessie Hutchinson is not very happy‚ in paragraph 45 and 46
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