Comparing The Tomb And The Orphanage

The Tomb written by Guy de Maupassant is a novel that explains the love a young man known as Courbataille has for his mistress and how he’s in sudden distress after she passes away from pneumonia. Courbataille confesses to the judge in a court room the love he has for his late mistress and how he cannot fathom the thought of not being able to see her ever again. The tomb can be comparable to the horror movie The Orphanage. In the horror film the Orphanage a family lives in an old orphanage home that the mother used to live in. Laura grew up in an orphanage where she later on wanted to raise her adopted Simón who is ill and goes missing for a couple months and is later on found dead. Laura could not accept the fact that her son was dead so she spends her time searching for her son. Both the novel The Tomb and the movie The Orphanage can be

The Tomb is thought of as horror story because the actions Courbataille made and the statements he presented to the judge in the courtroom, like saying “It also seemed to me that I had known her for a long time, that I had seen her before, She seemed to have some of my spirits in her” (Maupassant 114). In the film the Orphanage Laura would hear spirits in her head that were believed to be Simón’s imaginary friends. I would consider the spirits as the ghost in the film because Laura communicated with them to know information about her son, like rearranging the orphan home to the way it originally looked. During the movie the spirits, that were Simón’s imaginary friends, were utilized as a means of communication. When, Laura passed away she discovered the imaginary friends were children that used to live in the orphanage before they were killed. Personally I thought the ghost were good ghost because they did communicate with Laura and that’s how she identified that Simón was