House Taken Over By Ishmael Reed, And The Feather Pillow

Transformations that indulge fear

My brother spammed my mother’s phone, and when she woke up, she told us we had to leave. As my mom started the car, my brother called and said that he was inside his car stuck in a trembling voice, the faces of my parents were terrified. As we pulled up, we saw my brother’s car in a ditch, half crushed, and my brother was stuck inside with a troubled look. Half of the time, I did not know how to react, worried, stunned, frightened, shocked, I believed I had lost him. Transformation plays a role in the stories, “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortazar, “Beware: do not read this poem” by Ishmael Reed, and “The Feather Pillow” by Horacio Quiroga, because they all scare us in different ways using transformation. In

It was frightening because we did not know why the narrator and his sister were so frightened by these sounds. It changed from an ordinary, large house to a mysterious setting, as we do not know why they let the individuals take over the house and explained it like the individuals were very scary. This indulges fear in us, as we do not know why they were so frightened. Cortazar described “We stood listening to the noises, growing more and more sure that they were on our side of the oak door, if not the kitchen, then the bath, or in the hall itself at the turn, almost next to us. We didn’t wait to look at one another. I took Irene’s arm and forced her to run with me to the wrought-iron door, not waiting to look back” (Cortazar 41). This explains why they were paranoid by the mysterious sounds and that the house was being taken over. In the end, they realized that it was not worth it to stay in the same area as them, and quickly fled off. If they quickly leave after hearing a sound, that means something must be wrong. They also locked the front door because they did not want anyone to be near the individuals and disposed of the key. Cortazar describes, “.I felt terrible; I locked the front door up tight and tossed the key down the sewer” (Cortazar 42). The change that occurs is the house getting

The text is about a woman who locked herself up in a house that was filled with mirrors, and how she disappeared into a mirror and started killing the loved ones’ tenants. Reed emphasizes, “She disappeared into a mirror and each tenant who bought the house after that, lost a loved one” (Reed 103). This is scary because the woman suddenly disappeared into a mirror and started killing people. Which is strange and creepy for that to happen, as it is unrealistic, but it still makes us feel terrified in a way. Another way that transformation occurs in the poem is when the poem warns the reader to stop reading it and that the reader is trapped because they are reading the poem. The narrator describes “Then the young woman/s husband / The hunger of this poem is legendary / It has taken in many victims / Back off from this poem / It has drawn in yr feet” (Reed 103). The poem transforms into a perspective of the reader that was trapped inside the poem by a psychological woman. The poem uses personification and describes how the reader cannot escape from this poem because the narrator wants to scare us and entrap