Located just outside a small town, far back into the countryside, is a place unknown to most. Down a long, flat and uninspiring road, is a house with unique character. This house wouldn’t be considered the ideal home for a family. Residing at this particular home was a little black rain cloud that permanently inhabited day in and day out.
The house was constructed in 1985, young at heart. It’s potential to be a place of happiness aged over time, and turned into a place to escape.
The house was a typical structured mobile home, on one level, with four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, dining room, family room, and living room. Its main exterior and interior were the same shade of brown found under a patch of grass, musty and unappealing for a home. This color kept the home from ever looking clean and fresh. The color was used in the madness of the designer, displayed on the walls, carpets, doors, and siding.
All the rooms in this house were cluttered by the family’s possessions that never found an organized style. The worst of these rooms was the kitchen. The kitchen was the main room for entertainment. For family events, the residents would gather around a table etched in memories of permanent marker from the children who thought they were artists. The kitchens original design had brown daisy wallpaper to match the overall dull brown interior. The ceiling was one of the very few things in white, with faded worm shapes inspired by the myth that if a spaghetti noodle stuck to the ceiling, it was done.
The hardwood flooring that ran through the home would have given the presence of taste, if it were not consumed by the dust bunnies that survived and created a colony. Etched deep into the natural look of an untouched for...
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... snow would filter down from above and purify the homes surroundings bringing a quiet and peaceful setting.
Throughout the seasons, the house continued to age and fall apart. Tears and holes would appear and be left unfixed. No matter how horrible and unsettling the atmosphere, the family continued to stay because it wasn’t the right time to leave. Even with all the clutter, dust and imperfections, the house continued to stand and hold the family together as its captives.
Eventually, twenty three years from when it was built the family found a new location and moved, breaking free from the curse of the home. Moving away from the house and the little black rain cloud, far off into another countryside where happy memories could finally be made. Nowhere near any dry and uninspiring color of brown that resembled the overall dysfunction of the place they once lived.
Inside the house there were “piles of Tupperware and glass dishes” (19). Outside there was a shed, garden, trees, and a river. There was an office. There were “brass numbers” hanging “on the front porch” (19).
...f frustration in Willy for his lack of success by depicting with a descriptive language the homes surrounding the house: "solid vault of apartment houses" another proof of the house's and the family's fragility.
In Allende’s The House of the Spirits, Esteban Trueba is the principal male character. During the course of the novel, Trueba increases his power in the world as he progresses in status from a conservative landowner to a powerful senator. He is tyrannical, treating his family members and the tenants on his family hacienda, Tres Marías, like subjects rather than intimate community. The basis for most of Trueba's actions is the desire for power, control, and wealth, and he pursues these things at any cost, disregarding his emotional decline and the effects of his actions upon the people in his life.
The Haunting of Hill House is a book about four people that all have backgrounds of experiencing supernatural events. Because of this, they were all chosen to explore the supernatural happenings occurring at Hill House. The house was originally built by a man named Hugh Crain. It had been a place of mysterious events and also the deaths of those who lived there. Dr. Montague, a supernatural investigator, then carefully selected three people with paranormal backgrounds, and invited them to explore the occurrences at the house. Luke, the future heir of the house, Theodora, a careless artist, and Eleanor Vance are invited to the house. Eleanor Vance is the main character and narrator of the story. She lived alone, had few to no friends, and was looking for excitement going on a journey to Hill House. When the four arrived, they all were frightened by the looks of the house, but all seemed well until their third night there. When they were all asleep, banging and laughing came from behind their doors, and animals were seen running in the house. Large writings...
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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.
The descriptions of the house deteriorating throughout the years covered in the book establishes the sensation of the endless nightmare – that despite mortal man, the house remains as it was from the day it was erected and only the outward appearance changes. . In fact, as the story centralizes around the curse placed upon the house, it is almost the main attraction of the story, the other characters only playing supporting roles to show the potency of the dark power that the house holds on members of the Pyncheon dynasty. Because Hawthorne gives the house human characteristics, “So much of mankind’s varied experien...
... sign on an estate agents board which is erected in the Nolan’s garden. (I have added this scene to show how live moves on and if you stay in one place, you can get stuck in a rut, or situation. In moving, the family would be able to start new.)
"The house is 10 feet by 10 feet, and it is built completely of corrugated paper. The roof is peaked, the walls are tacked to a wooden frame. The dirt floor is swept clean, and along the irrigation ditch or in the muddy river...." " ...and the family possesses three old quilts and soggy, lumpy mattress. With the first rain the carefully built house will slop down into a brown, pulpy mush." (27-28)
a dull grey colour as if it had lost the will to live and stopped
I cried as we locked up the house for the last time. I felt like we had just spackled, primed, and painted over my childhood. I felt as if my identity had been erased, and like the character in the song, I had lost myself. There was no longer any physical evidence that I had ever lived in, much less grew up in, the house.
Upon moving in to her home she is captivated, enthralled with the luscious garden, stunning greenhouse and well crafted colonial estate. This was a place she fantasized about, qualifying it as a home in which she seemed comfortable and free. These thoughts don’t last for long, however, when she is prescribed bed rest. She begins to think that the wallpaper, or someone in the wallpaper is watching her making her feel crazy. She finally abandons her positivity towards what now can be considered her husband’s home, and only labels negative features of the home. For example, the narrator rants about the wallpaper being, “the strangest yellow…wallpaper! It makes me think of… foul, bad yellow things” (Gilman). One can only imagine the mental torture that the narrator is experiencing, staring at the lifeless, repulsive yellow hue of ripping
Similarly, the furniture in the house is as sullen as the house itself. What little furniture is in the house is beaten-up; this is a symbol of the dark setting. The oak bed is the most important p...
The house was old. My grandmother lived in it most of her life. The house was
A mixture of endearingly vibrant colours, makes this modern, multi functional living room come to life in an instant. The colours of choice used impose a delightful air of trendy sophistication. Cotton white walls and dark wood floors acts as a blank canvas allowing colour to be introduced by its furnishings and accessories.