What if I were to tell you that “The Fall Of The House Of Usher” & “House Taken Over” are more similar then you think? Both stories involve 2 siblings and an odd, mysterious, house. Both authors used detail in the stories to develop the settings and characters to develop themes. Yet they are still both so different,for example “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortázar is Magical Realism. While “The Fall Of The House Of Usher”, by Edger Allen Poe is a Gothic Story. Julio Cortázar used the setting very well in his short story “House Taken Over”. Throughout the whole story I got a very detailed insight about their house and living style. Edger Allen Poe’s story on the other hand was another level, “The Fall Of The House Of Usher”, when compared to “House Taken Over”, was extremely descriptive.An example of this is “The room in which I found myself was very large …show more content…
This description is very insightful to the description of the house. Julio Cortázar also did a great job, as said before, describing the home in the story. “it kept the memories of great-grandparents, our paternal grandfather, our parents and the whole of childhood.eight people could have lived in that place and not have gotten in each other’s way.”- paragraphs 1 & 2. I believe that both authors did a phenomenal job, but Poe’s description ( not just in that sentence, but in the whole story) was spectacular.I believe that he did an excellent job with the setting of the story. Character description also plays a role in the atmosphere of the story. Cortázar had beautiful descriptions of both characters and past. “Irene never bothered anyone.she spent the rest of the day on the sofa in her bedroom, knitting.she always knitted necessities.”- paragraph 3. This tells us how the sister Irene enjoys knitting very much, it is also talked about more as the story
Can we always control what we say or how we act? This can be asked by the when reading either “The Fall of the House of Usher” or “Young Goodman Brown.” To further understand these stories, in order to see why the above is true, the keys to writing any story must be defined and discussed. The first key is character, characters are the people that the story follows. Their thoughts and actions are brought to life through development done by the author of the story Development can also be done through
An ugly and frightening old woman crouches ominously over a big worn cauldron, set over a crackling red fire. Her skin is wrinkled, cragged and coloured in a strange tone that isn't quite natural, and her face features a long and crooked nose, adorned with a few erratic warts. She is wearing a long black robe that has seen better days, and a tall conical hat with a large rim covers her untidy hair. She concentrates on her cauldron, in which some unwholesome-looking liquid is boiling and sending off
first book to describe and analyse the complete development, classic operation, and reinvention of the global corporate entities which produce and distribute most of the films we watch. Starting in 1920, Adolph Zukor, head of Paramount Pictures, over the decade of the 1920s helped to fashion Hollywood into a vertically integrated system, a set of economic innovations which was firmly in place by 1930. For the next three decades, the movie industry in the United States and the rest of the world