Southern Gothic

The Horror Genre has many dynamic components to make it what it is.The three works I am using are The Nightmare before Christmas, The cinderella story, and High Beams. These 3 pieces of work use archetypes, setting and mood to achieve the horror genre and draw the reader into the story or movie.The horror genre is best represented by a spooky setting that helps set up the story. Most of the time a horror passage will have some type of archetype that is in danger or trouble. Then they will have…

Bogard builds on his argument by explaining that everyday we get 6% more light which is stopping our darkness. We need our natural darkness to help with the night and preserve our energy. He said that every night over 80% of our cities/ towns are lit up. This is a problem because we already have light pollution and it is within our ability to solve it but he says how can we if we get 6% more everyday. In his argument Bogard starts with explaining the environment he grew up in and how it was…

Have you ever wondered what life would be like over the rainbow? Way up high in the lands of Oz? Have you ever wanted to know the real Wicked Witch of the West? Well then, you're in for a treat. Gregory Maguire is an American novelist born in Albany, New York in 1954. He received his PhD in English and American Literature at Tuft University. He is the author of many parallel novels and stories for both children and adults. The most famous of Maguire's novels is, without a doubt, Wicked.…

Are you an only child? Do you have siblings? Almost everything in our lives makes an impact on us. Edgar Allen Poe, an american writer, had many things that affected not only him but his writing. Looking back on his life, and maybe your own as reading this, you'll find out what affected Poe’s writing. I believe that we are shaped by ur past. It makes us who we are and affects our future in various important ways. Edgar Allen Poe, Poe for short, was and still is a very well known writer. His…

In this RAFT project, the story of Beowulf is portrayed through a series of comic contents, each drawn specifically to match the original work’s message, tone, meaning, and ideas while maintaining the features of a graphic novel such as detailed dialogue and clear visual renditions of the plot. This was done so mainly by utilizing monochrome paintings and exaggerated dictions and sentence structures. Throughout the graphic novel, the readers should notice that the colors of all the drawings,…

The author make a story his or her own by adding things that define the way he writes these kinds of stories, like on the sory gift of the magi, the way he wrote this story is with love and sarcasm. He made that story his with the way he wrote it, the things that author uses. For example in the story after twenty years by O. Henry, he uses a style of suspense because at the end on after 20 year it ends with him getting caught and you didn't know what was going to happen next until you read.…

Although the photo is in black and white it shows a lot of symbolism. The Golden ratio is present in the photograph. Showing two extremes in the photo which consists of the balcony area and the parking lot. This specific images can conduct many emotions to an individual, depending on how the individuals interpret the image. The emotions this image can cause to an individual is terror, anger, sadness, shock, confusion and possibly happiness and relief for certain individuals. After the bullet…

The first gothic novel The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, published in 1764, substantially contained all the paramount elements of the gothic genre. Supernatural, old castles, omens, prophecies, frantic emotions, the air of mystery and suspense, patriarchy and a woman in distress form the basic but essential foundation to this genre. From The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole to “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe to several contemporary works in the gothic genre, we see…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, has many interesting but different interpretations. It had been interpreted as a Gothic horror tale, a semiautobiographical account of a mental break down, and as a symbolic presentation of the effects of social and economic oppression on women. There are many aspects of the story of why these three interpretations work. For example, the first reason why it can be a Gothic horror tale is how the narrator gradually becomes insane. At first she seems smart and analytical…

Scrooge had a friend he had business with and his name was Marley. Marley and Scrooge were partners for who knows how many years. Marley died and the story said “Marley was dead, to begin with. The is no doubt whatever about that.”. Scrooge knew he was dead, but he really wasn't upset about it, but Scrooge was a great business man. The story said “The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both…