Literary Analysis Of Asylum

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A Literary Analysis of Asylum Asylum is a novel written by Madeleine Roux. It is a horror, suspense, and mystery novel with some elements of romance and drama. The book was published in 2013, and is the first teen book written by Roux. Asylum is also the first book in the Asylum series, Roux’s first book series. Asylum is a novel that will engulf the reader and appeal to the reader’s interest in horror, suspense, and questioning reality in a gripping story containing strange and ominous photos (Asylum Hardcover – August 20, 2013). Dan Crawford is a participant in the New Hampshire College Preparatory Program. The program is designed to prepare the best students from around the nation for college. During the program the students stay in real college dorms, take college-level classes, and meet new people. That is where he meets his new friends Abby and Jordan. When they arrive at the program, they are informed that the dorms are being renovated, and they must stay in the old Brookline dorms. Dan and his new friends find out Brookline used to be a psychiatric hospital that was mysteriously shut down for unknown reasons. Letting …show more content…

Dan, Abby, and Jordan are connected to Brookline and its past. As they start to realize their connections, they start experiencing things that the patients and warden experienced decades before, and had trouble separating fantasy from reality (Roux). There were also many instances of symbolism in Asylum. The Brookline Sanatorium’s looming and sinister exterior caused everyone who visited it, or even glanced at it, to have a heavy, weighed down, and frightened feeling. It was a symbol of Dan’s condition, Abby’s family’s unresolved past, and Jordan’s conflict with his parents. The music box that Abby found symbolized the innocence and incognizance of the patients at Brookline, who were subjected to wrongful practice and experiments gone awry because of the Warden

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