Comparing 'Dream Collector And House Taken Over'

Explanatory Essay
My english teacher once told us that when she was seven years old she begged her father to take her through a creepy maze in her hometown. She thought she was ready, But she was not ready to go through the maze.When she walked around the corner of the maze she found a giant scary mean werewolf jumping out of a cage. She just about peed her pants and cried. The employees felt bad so they stopped being scary and they escorted her and her dad out of the maze. It was supposed to be a fun experience for her but it quickly turned a bad night for her. This can be seen in the following three stories like Oates “Where Is Here “, Arthur Tress’ “Dream Collector” and Julio Cortazar’s “House Taken Over” uses transformation to slowly change into something nice to scary.

This is effective because it makes the readers question how they look at other people and their own safety. One example is when “For years they had lived without incident in their house in a quiet residential neighborhood”. This shows that the neighborhood and there house are fairly normal and nothing really scary or strange happens in the neighborhood. In contrast, “The father pushed past her without comment and the lights flicker” (76). This gives the readers an eerie feeling as to the mark that the visitor gave them and how the mother and father seemed perfectly fine before the visitor. Therefore, the transformation was effective because as the story progressed it goes from normal regular day life to something strange and