Ricks Kory Ricks Hensely English 11/ Second Period 27 february 2018 Part 12: Rough Draft In 1830 in a little log cabin lived a young couple, whose lives turn into a nightmare, one characters life went to a life of loneliness and supernatural events. The Boarded Window is a love and death story the turns into a supernatural. The main character murlock was a loving husband by trying to keep his wife well but it did not work so she died. Then murlock started losing his mind and went crazy over time. The Boarded Window is a love and death story the turns into a supernatural. The main character murlock was a loving husband by trying to keep his wife well but it did not work so she died. Then murlock started losing his mind and went crazy over …show more content…
time he died to.In Ambrose Bierce's The Boarded Window, the reader is shown the theme of the supernatural. In the short story, “The Boarded Window,” by Ambrose Bierce he states,The supernatural part of the story like when murlock saw his dead wife. And when he saw the panther dragging his wife and he shoot and scare him away. And when he was thrown around his house by his dead wife so it caused him to go crazy. ( Bierce Ambrose 1). The reader thinks that the supernatural part of the story is the way he went crazy at the loss of his wife. But he thought he lost his wife dying by the fever. But other say he lost her to the big panther. Ambrose Bierce writing style is like Edgar Allen Poe’s it is similar in the death in bizarre ways. Like in the death of his wife, “at this point his terror turns to madness, which drives him to action. He springs to the wall and grabs his loaded rifle. He shoots the rifle without aiming. In the flare of the gunpowder, he sees a giant panther dragging his dead wife toward the window by the throat. Suddenly, murlock loses consciousness.” (Milne 3). The reader knows when he went crazy because his wife was everything he had. But he is seeing things that no one else can see. In the story the boarded window he put sadness in to help the feeling of of death. “Deep sadness is an artist of powers that affects people in different ways. To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, shocking all the emotions to a sharper life.” (Bierce 2). The reader must be able to connect to the feeling of murlock. The way he feels is like he lost everything that he owned. But the feeling of murlock is so depressing that it's hard to keep up with because he probably died from the state of depression. The boarded window represents Murlock. In the passage Murlock did not board up the windows cause of the hate of light and air but from his wife's death. Like written on page 1 it said, “his little log house had a single door. Directly opposite was a window. The window was boarded up. No one could remember a time when it was not. And no one knew why it had been closed.” (Bierce 1). The reason he boarded up the window could have been to try to keep his wife's spirit out of the cabin. “The most noted aspect of the house was a window, directly opposite the front door, that was boarded up. Nobody could remember a time that this window was not boarded up, yet no one knew why, except for this narrator, who learned murlock’s story from his grandfather.” (Milne 2). Bierce uses the supernatural to give the reader a sense of thought . The narrator goes to the cabin in the woods as an older man, “ with a fearless spirit I went to the place ang got close enough to the ruined cabin to throw a stone against it. I ran away to avoid the ghost which every well-informed boy in the area knew haunted the spot.”(Bierce1). The boarded window gives the reader a feeling of the supernatural. Rena korb states, “ in essence Bierce has written a weird tale that works on two levels: that of the incident itself, and that of the role of the narrator.” (Korb 9). The supernatural part started when Bierce states, “ suddenly the table shook under his arms. At the same time he heard, or imagined he heard, a light,soft step and another. The sound were as bare feet walking upon the floor! He was afraid beyond the power to cry out or move. He waited-waited there in the darkness through what seemed like centuries of of such fear. Fear as one may know, but yet live to tell. He tried but failed to speak the dead woman’s name. He tried but failed to stretch his hand across the table to learn if she was there. His throat was powerless. His arms and hands were like lead.” (Bierce 2). Another way to tell that people were scared was they would run away like Brent stated, “ he ran away to avoid the ghost which every well informed boy thereabout knew haunted the spot.” (Brent 14). In the short story, “The Boarded Window,” by Ambrose Bierce he states,The supernatural part of the story like when murlock saw his dead wife. And when he saw the panther dragging his wife and he shoot and scare him away. And when he was thrown around his house by his dead wife so it caused him to go crazy. ( Bierce Ambrose 1). The reader thinks that the supernatural part of the story is the way he went crazy at the loss of his wife. But he thought he lost his wife dying by the fever. But other say he lost her to the big panther. The death part of the story is everywhere like the first person to die is the wife. But the wife died like more than onces in the story like when she died from the disease that she had. And another time she died from the panther. Cause it looked like she put up a fight with the panther. Murlocks loneliness was caused by the death of his wife because she was all he had to love.
When the loneliness kick in he was starting to go crazy over it all. It also started the supernatural part of the story because he was one lonely man but when he saw the ghost of his wife he was scared. The story takes part in the 1830’s a few miles away from today Cincinnati Ohio. somewhere in the wild in the forest. The atmosphere of the story is depression from where his wife died. The depression was so bad he was building up so much stress that he was going crazy. There was also supernaturalism activity because he was thrown to the ground and he was getting hit by nothing at all. So i think it was his wife's spirit telling to get on with his life without her. The story is told by the narrator who never knew Murlock's wife but has heard about the story of her death from his grandfather. As the narrator retells the story he seems to believe the cabin where Murlock and his wife once lived is haunted. Murlock was trying to make it as a farmer until his wife died it took a toll on his life. It made him go in to mild depression. The man was only 50 but he looked like a 70 year old man because of his long and white hair. When he died of natural causes he was buried next to his wife and the cabin. Before he died he had enough stress to kill a man. Ambrose bierce was known for his satirical wit and sardonic view of human nature. Bitter Bierce was a nickname he got from the story The Devil's Dictionary a story that originally appeared as the name of The Cynic’s Word Book. This humorous and often unusually wise book is always worth a casual visit as he takes his turn handing out striking order about human nature and daily life. He brought us so go stories like four days in dixie, oil of dog, the damned thing and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. He was in the Mexican revolutionary war so he can get first hand experience on the conflicts. And out of nowhere he disappeared out of
thin air. He served in the civil war with the unions 9th indiana regiment getting newspaper attention at the first battle of the philippi for his daring rescue, under fire, of a gravely wounded comrade at the battle of rich mountain. Bierce got a head injury at the battle of kennesaw mountain. At the end of the war he was given the rank of lieutenant. The boarded window was about a 70 year old man named Murlock. He lived alone in a log house he had long grey hair full white beard. Murlock lived and died in the house which he was buried near the cabin with his wife the doctors said he died of natural causes. He kept a rifle for hunting. Murlock was married to a young woman which he loved very much. But when murlock came back from hunting he found his wife very sick with fever they didn't doctors that close to them so he tried to take care of her himself to restore her back to the way she was. But days later she fell unconsciousness and died. He knew that the dead should be prepared for a burial. But he did not cry over his wife's death. When he saw his wife laying there his light was disappearing. He fell into a big depression that he could not understand. When he awoken he could not understand why he had a big hole in his heart that was filled of sadness. Then he was full of fear from his images in his head. He imagined his wife he failed to speak the dead woman's name. Then his fear got to him and he felt like his heavy body was thrown against the table.and his arms felt like lead. The fight was so crazy that he heard a sound that he could not describe. So when he got up it made him go insane then he throw his hands on the table. He was so far gone he was even showed how insane he was by acting.he took his rifle and shoot it for no reason at all. But he did scare a panther with a dead lady in its mouth. And he fell unconscious from the dead woman at his window.
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Jeannette Walls has lived a life that many of us probably never will, the life of a migrant. The majority of her developmental years were spent moving to new places, sometimes just picking up and skipping town overnight. Frugality was simply a way of life for the Walls. Their homes were not always in perfect condition but they continued with their lives. With a brazen alcoholic and chain-smoker of a father and a mother who is narcissistic and wishes her children were not born so that she could have been a successful artist, Jeannette did a better job of raising herself semi-autonomously than her parents did if they had tried. One thing that did not change through all that time was the love she had for her mother, father, brother and sisters. The message that I received from reading this memoir is that family has a strong bond that will stay strong in the face of adversity.
The author Jeannette Walls of the Glass Castle uses the literary element of characterization to further the theme of the individual chapters. Walls, divides the novel into sections which signify different parts of her life. During one of the last sections in the later half of Jeannette Walls life she comes accross the character by the name of Ginnie Sue Pastor. Ginnie Sue is a single mother who works at The Green Lantern (a local brothel) in order to support her family. When Jeannette first comes across Ginnie Sue she thinks to herself, “It was only on the way home that I realized I hadn’t gotten answers to any of my questions. While I was sitting there talking to Ginnie Sue, I’d even forgotten she was a whore,” (Walls 163). Jeannette is referring to her question she had earlier anticipated on asking which related to her
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The Glass Castle is a memoir of the writer Jeannette Walls life. Her family consists of her father Rex Walls, her mother Rose Mary Walls, her older sister Lori Walls, her younger brother Brian Walls and her younger sister Maureen Walls. Jeannette Walls grew up with a lot of hardships with her dad being an alcoholic and they never seemed to have any money. Throughout Jeanette’s childhood, there are three things that symbolize something to Jeannette, they are fire, New York City and the Glass Castle, which shows that symbolism gives meanings to writing.
Ann and John, two characters from he short story "The Painted Door", do not have a very healthy relationship. John is a simple farmer who thinks the only way he can please his wife, Ann, is by working all day to earn money for her. However Ann would prefer him to spend more time with her. Their relationship is stressed even further when Ann is left at home alone with nothing to think about but their relationship because John has to go to his father’s house. The terrible snowstorm accentuates Ann’s feelings of loneliness and despair. John does not pay enough attention to Ann, and therefore creates a weak relationship.
Style in literature is essential to create proper perception from the reader. This is equally as important as establishing appropriate tone. For this propose Ethel Wilson compliments such standards in her works “The Fog”, “Hurry, Hurry” and “The Window.” Wilson’s stylistic techniques are unmatched in uniqueness or assessing human nature versus physical nature. In the fore mentioned texts, Ethel Wilson composes her style from elements of symbolism, motif and character development to flourish understanding of the central idea of responsibility in the human mind when hidden behind nature.
This story took place on the frontier, in the summer of 1768, in Maine's woods. Matt Hallowell and his father stake a claim in Maine territory. Once they find the perfect place, they build a new cabin. There were many trees around and a river close by where they could get water and food. There was even enough room to plant corn. There weren't any other settlers there. After Matt and his father got the place ready, they both decided that Matt would stay to guard the new cabin while his dad went back to Massachusetts to get the rest of the family including Matt's mother who was going to have a baby and his sister. Matt is only twelve years old and he has to stay by himself in the wilderness. He is scared but knows he can do it.
Jeannette Walls did not have your average childhood. She grew up poor and neglected and faced many hardships as a child. Many of the problems she faced as a child were caused by her parents. Her mother, Rose Mary, clearly suffers from narcissistic personality disorder which affects not only Jeannette but the entire family. It is evident throughout the entire story that Rose Mary clearly puts her wants and needs ahead of her childrens showing her narcissistic tendencies.
The story starts out with a hysterical.woman who is overprotected by her loving husband, John. She is taken to a summer home to recover from a nervous condition. However, in this story, the house is not her own and she does not want to be in it. She declares it is “haunted” and “that there is something queer about it” (The Yellow Wall-Paper. 160). Although she acknowledges the beauty of the house and especially what surrounds it, she constantly goes back to her feeling that there is something strange about the house. It is not a symbol of security for the domestic activities, it seems like the facilitates her release, accommodating her, her writing and her thoughts, she is told to rest and sleep, she is not even allow to write. “ I must put this away, he hates to have me write a word”(162). This shows how controlling John is over her as a husband and doctor. She is absolutely forbidden to work until she is well again. Here John seems to be more of a father than a husband, a man of the house. John acts as the dominant person in the marriage; a sign of typical middle class, family arrangement.
Mrs. Mallard’s repressed married life is a secret that she keeps to herself. She is not open and honest with her sister Josephine who has shown nothing but concern. This is clearly evident in the great care that her sister and husband’s friend Richard show to break the news of her husband’s tragic death as gently as they can. They think that she is so much in love with him that hearing the news of his death would aggravate her poor heart condition and lead to death. Little do they know that she did not love him dearly at all and in fact took the news in a very positive way, opening her arms to welcome a new life without her husband. This can be seen in the fact that when she storms into her room and her focus shifts drastically from that of her husband’s death to nature that is symbolic of new life and possibilities awaiting her. Her senses came to life; they come alive to the beauty in the nature. Her eyes could reach the vastness of the sky; she could smell the delicious breath of rain in the air; and ears became attentive to a song f...
Plot: Woman gets call at work from her father, telling her that her mother is dead. Father never got used to living alone and went into retirement home. Mother is described as very religious, Anglican, who had been saved at the age of 14. Father was also religious and had waited for the mother since he first met her. They did not have sex until marriage and the father was mildly dissapointed that the mother did not have money. Description of the house follows, very high ceilings, old mansion it seems, with chimney stains, it has been let go. Jumps in time to narrators ex-husband making fun of narrator fantasizing about stains. Next paragraph is the father in a retirement home, always referring to things: ‘The lord never intended.’, shows how old people have disdain for new things, the next generation appears to be more and more sacreligious. Shows streak of meanness when ‘spits’ out a reference to constant praying, narrator claims he does not know who he is talking to, but appears to be the very pious mother. Following paragraph jumps back in time to when narrator was a child, she asks her mother constant questions about her white hair and what color it was, mother says she was glad when it wasn’t brown like her fathers anymore, shows high distaste towards her father, the narrators grandfather.