It was a cold stormy night and I had just arrived home from work. The house was still. I was relaxing in my recliner when I heard a series of knocks at the door. As I came out of the living room the knocks were getting louder and louder. I thought to myself, "Who could be at the door this late at night?" When I opened the door there was a tall man dressed all in black. He smelled of rotten eggs and looked like he just crawled out of a mud pit. His car was having trouble and he needed to use the phone. I invited him in and told him that the phone was down the hall in the kitchen. Instead of calling the tow truck he called his friend, James, to come pick him up. I invited him to have a cup of coffee and some donuts while he waited for his friend to pick him up. We talked for about an hour when there was another knock at the door.
The police were outside and were here looking for a murderer named Brian. Brian had just escaped from jail and stolen a guard's car. They said that the guard’s car was located right outside of my house. We went into the kitchen to find that the man with car troubles was missing. The police jolted outside to try to catch him. They couldn't find him, but then proceeded to question me about him for what seemed like hours. When they finally left, I went upstairs to go to sleep.
I heard a noise and when I woke up Brian was sitting in my bedroom, watching me. I tried to grab my cell phone but Brian slammed my arm against the dresser. Brian said that he wanted my car and my money immediately. I refused until he pointed a gun at me so I gave him all of the money in my wallet, which only came out to be $200.00. Brian wasn't satisfied of course, he wanted more. He put his gun up against my head and said, "Go to the b...
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... my back. The ground suddenly stopped moving and I hit my head. I heard two doors slam and two men started talking. They opened the trunk and dragged me out. We were at a dark warehouse. I begged them to let me go, but of course they refused. The warehouse was full of huge boxes. Foolishly, I asked what was in all the boxes. Brian opened one of the boxes up to show me its contents. All the boxes were filled with guns of all sizes. The instant he showed me the guns, Brian pulled out his own gun. I begged him for my life, but it was too late I already knew too much. He shot me right in my chest.
A couple days later the police found my body floating down a river. James and Brian were never found. They had escaped to the Bahamas with over $100,000 worth of weapons and cash. They spent the rest of their lives fleeing from country to country trying to avoid their charges.
What do you think of when you hear the words American Gothic? If you thought of death, heartbreak, loneliness, then you are correct. The writing period of American Gothic was one that people decided to write about the other side of the happy endings. the heart breaks and the funerals and the thought of being lonely forever. They tell you about the reality of things and what the truth is, how things really happened and it doesn’t sugar coat anything. In “A Rose for Emily” Emily becomes a sad and depressed person who will do something completely unexpected. In “The Lottery” the townspeople have a twisted tradition that takes place once a year. These two stories have a lot of comparison and contrast dealing with theme, foreshadowing and imagery.
In today’s literature there are many types of genres that people find fascinating, all the way from fantasy to non-fiction. A very interesting genre is Gothic Fiction, where many elements are used to such as violence, ghosts, monsters and many other dark and mystical elements that make up Gothic Fiction. There are many great authors who are well known for their dark gothic style such as Edgar Poe, who has written the short story “Fall of the House of Usher” and the “Black Cat,” or Horacio Quiroga who has written “Feather Pillow” and a more recent author, Ransom Riggs who has written Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children. These three author’s stories all have gothic elements, such as psychological issues, death and fear that parallel one other which shows a common trend between gothic literatures.
Gothic literature was developed during the eighteenth and nineteenth century of the Gothic era when war and controversy was too common. It received its name after the Gothic architecture that was becoming a popular trend in the construction of buildings. As the buildings of daunting castles and labyrinths began, so did the beginning foundation of Gothic literature. The construction of these buildings will later become an obsession with Gothic authors. For about 300 years before the Renaissance period, the construction of these castles and labyrinths continued, not only in England, but also in Gothic stories (Landau 2014). Many wars and controversies, such as the Industrial Revolution and Revolutionary War, were happening at this time, causing the Gothic literature to thrive (“Gothic Literature” 2011). People were looking for an escape from the real world and the thrill that Gothic literature offered was exactly what they needed. Gothic literature focuses on the horrors and the dark sides to the human brain, such as in Mary Shelley’s book Frankenstein. Gothic literature today, as well as in the past, has been able to separate itself apart from other types of literature with its unique literary devices used to create fear and terror within the reader.
Southern Gothic Literature is a subgenre of Gothic fiction writing, which takes place in the American South. The Southern Gothic style is one of that employs the topics such as death, bizarre, violent, madness, and supernatural. These tools are used “to explore social issues and reveal the cultural character of the American South (Wikipedia).” The view of the South which is self-identified as the “national” or “American” view is basically a colonial Romance, with the rest of the nation identified with the forces of the light and the South with the forces of the darkness (Wacker 107).The authors of Southern Gothic typically use damaged characters to make their stories better, and to show deeper meanings of unpleasant Southern characteristics. These characters are diverse from society due to social, physical or mental disabilities. However, not all characteristics of the characters are bad; it is that a mixture of good and bad is found in most of the characters. Two authors who express the Southern Gothic writing style are William Faulkner, who wrote “A Rose for Emily,” and Flanner O Conner, the author of “Good Country People” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find.”
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Gothic encompasses many genres of expression. Gothic artists speak out through the forms of literature, architecture, film, sculptures, paintings, and music. Many times, one genre of Gothic inspires another, creating fusing parallels between the two. In this way, each genre of Gothic rises to a more universal level, coalescing into the much broader understanding of Gothic. Gothic writers, such as Mary Shelley, influence Gothic music, as one sees in stylistic devices including diction, setting, and tone.
Gothic storytelling is a form of writing that usually includes horror, death, and romance. People write gothic style for the thrill of having a little bit of scariness in their story. Gothic style can be shown through the imagery and themes. The Fall of the House of Usher and Crimson Peak are two stories that show gothic writing though the imagery of the houses and supernatural.
My friend’s mom worked for the sheriffs department, so she called and I filed a report. Guess what they made me go back home. Yes, they sent me back home, because I was consider a run away. Therefore, for a week I was brutally beat for telling the secret of our family. That week was the week I wish I was dead. I prayed every night for God to take me away. I was grab by my neck and slammed up against the wall and released as I slid down the wall. A nail caught my back and ripped my skin ...
What is America Gothic? The American Gothic movement started around the same time as the transcendentalist movement. Gothic writers unlike transcendentalist writers believed that life wasn 't all rainbows and butterflies. They saw it as a cruel and sometimes menacing place. During this time Gothic writers wrote about the true evils and that even the nicest person could have some of the worse demons.
A painting known as American Gothic was painted in 1930 by Grant Wood. It portrays a farmer with pitchfork (Grant’s dentist) and a woman (Grant’s sister) in front of a house. After Grant Wood won his competition with the painting, it became extremely well known and was often borrowed for cartoons, commercials and novels. Novels such as Gothic literature, even though Gothic literature was “invented” about two hundred years before the painting, people still somehow connected the two. Whenever people read Gothic literatures they would visualize the painting or vice versa. “Gothic literature is part of fiction that became popular during the late 1700s in Europe.”(Brooklyn.cuny.edu) Many of the stories generally have combinations of horror, mystery and romantic with a particular focus of settings. Settings such as inside a castle are used often in the earlier Gothic literature along with the supernatural elements.
There is one known very influential writing style called Gothic Literature. It is not only considered to involve the horror or gothic element but is combined with romance, superstition, women in distress, omens, portents, vision and supernatural events to name a few (Beesly). The history and beginning of this era is not well known. From a few writers came this writing style that has impacted the world. A famous artists known for this type of writing is a man named Edgar Allan Poe. He wrote many short stories and poems that include horror, gothic, and romance just mentioned.
A great number of tales take up the description that Baker posits for the sublime, and the narrative usually includes something reminiscent of Baker’s description. The setting will often include or harken back to something that is undeniably engulfing in scope, or which at least produces a feeling of such when reading the text. Usually this will relate in some way to a place or object which has stood for aeons, at least in perception; alternatively it could also relate to something simply fantastically grotesque in size and scope, although often this will link back to the unfathomable age formerly mentioned. These concepts then create feelings in those encountering them of existential dread and horror. Vijay Mishra explores this very concept
From the later eighteenth century all the way to present day, the gothic genre has appeared sporadically in many poems, short stories, and films. Contradictory to the Age of Enlightenment, an era believed to have valued reason above all others, gothic fiction explored more of the darker aspects of human nature. The concept of a supernatural literary genre was first analyzed by English writers, such as Walpole and Radcliffe, during the transition between the eighteenth and nineteenth century (1750-1800). Although, the first known accounts of gothic literature by American writers wasn’t until the early 1800s with works like Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” in 1839. Since
My story started about a week ago. I was heading to bed early, because I was tired from a long day with plans to wake up a few hours before class to review for a test. As I closed my books for the evening and headed to bed around midnight, little did I know something was going on outside.
They had caught everyone! Apparently that this house was from the late 1800's and was said to have precious gems somewhere in the house and those men where trying to steal them! The police thanked me for telling them. After a LONG LONG horse ride i was finally home and i was so happy after being away for one month i was finally home and safe.