The House Of Usher Transformation Essay

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“We stop looking for the monsters under our beds when we realize there inside us.”-The Joker The transformations in stories and the affect it has on its readers is what this essay is about. In stories some of the transformations that happen are supernatural activity, unknown things, and death. In some situations, there is no realization that transformation can happen in real life. My essay starts from gothic literature and transformational text. The first transformation I’m talking about is supernatural activity. For example, ghosts in house taken over, where there are unknow things going through the house and the characters in the story believe that its ghosts. “I had to shut the door to the back passage, they’ve taken over the back part,” …show more content…

An example is zombies where they are dead but alive it is unknown for which one it is unless you see it. “It’s all fun and games until someone gets bit,” is a quote were its saying that zombies are fun to certain people and exciting but when the time comes they need to be prepared. People believe that they ae normal but they don’t have any clue that they are there to eat them and are trying to kill them. The second example is a character from the story “fall of the house of usher,” Usher puts his own sister buried underneath his house without knowledge if she was dead or not. “We have put her living in the tomb,” is an example of the knowledge not shown if she was dead or not. They should have checked if she was dead but by not checking it helped create an intense moment in the story. The last is the sister from the story “fall of the house of usher,” she is one of the last relatives but soon passes and is buried underneath her own home with her other relatives that are deceased. “I tell you that she now stands without the door,” this is a quote said by usher towards his sister explain that she can’t stand without something to lean on until now. Transformation creates a dramatic setting and appearance for this situation and scene. This was the last transformation I have written and talked about even though there are more forms of this type of

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