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The Haunted House - Original Writing It was the Christmas holidays and beady eyes phased with curiosity were glazing over us. I felt as though everyone was staring at us, and we were now the central attention of our new, humble town, Gravesend. As our entire luggage was being unloaded, I noticed that everyone was glaring at us as if we did not belong here. I felt uncomfortable and insecure. The neighbourhood itself appeared rather pleasant and, on the road, children were playing with each over and they all seemed to be enjoying themselves. As my father opened the door to our new house I flew inside and ran up the stairs immediately to see what my bedroom was like. The walls were pale green and my curtains and carpet were of a similar, but darker colour. By the time everything had been unloaded from the removals lorry, my furniture was positioned well in my room. My family and I began to get settled in. Months passed and neighbours had come over to introduce themselves and offer their aid. These neighbours had gradually become good family friends and I had made a couple of friends myself. I met Ron through his and my parents, who started talking to each over ever since we moved in. Ron was my age, Asian and well-built. I then met Mickey through Ron, whom I did not know so well. I was fitting in with everyone else and my family and I were finally not getting the attention that we got when we first moved in. “Easy bruv, what’s happening?” asked Ron “Nothing much, I’m just bored,” I responded. “Come, I want to show you something,” said Ron unexpectedly. I was bored and had nothing else to do, so I followed Ron and we finally reached our destination: an isolated and dilapidated house. I looked over at Ron, puzzled with curiosity. “Why are you bringing me here?” I asked. Mickey arrived with a big grin on his face. The house looked very old and erosion had occurred around the window sills.
The book “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction” was published in the year 2008 on the 12th of February by Knopf Canada. The author of this book is Dr. Gabor Mate who has worked for twelve years in the eastside Vancouver with patients suffering from addiction, mental illness and HIV. He is also a renowned speaker and a bestselling author. He also received the Hubert Evans Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the 2012 Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award for his work. (….)
The Haunting of Hill House is a gothic horror novel written by Shirley Jackson. Supernatural occurrences take place within the house revolving around Eleanor. Eleanor is a thirty-two-year-old woman who never once has felt the sense of inclusion. Eleanor seems to never recall the feeling of delight in her adult years due to the fact that she was a caretaker for her now deceased Mother; who took away most of her freedom by being incredibly restrictive. Dr. Montague, a doctor that specializes in analysis of the supernatural rents Hill House, a supposedly haunted house. During the renting period, Dr. Montague begins an experiment inviting individuals who have had involvement in abnormal events
The Haunting of Hill House is a novel about Dr. Montague who was a man intrigued by the supernatural and decided to study hill house. He rents the house and brings along some assistants, one of them being Eleanor. Reflecting on the Haunting of Hill House, I realize that Eleanor going to Hill House means she has “come home” and this brings out amongst other feelings, the feeling of absolute happiness. So as much as Hill House resembles the supernatural for everyone else, it is in fact an insight into Eleanor’s ultimate reality.
The aim of this essay is to critically analyze the two classical fictional tales “The haunting of the Hill House’ by Shirley Jackson and “My work is not yet done” by Thomas Ligotti. The focus of the arguments will be on how the writers have attempted to blur the lines between imagination and reality and how these two stories challenge the psychological realities. This will be followed by discussion of the points that Shirley Jackson and Thomas Ligotti have tried to establish in these books regarding the limitations and realities of humans as social beings as well as the world in which we live.
I saw the play Little Shop of Horrors by Howard Ashman on Saturday the 7th of December 2013, at my school Dubai International Academy. It was about how a single but dangerous plant makes and breaks the Mushnik's Skid Row Florists business, and the romantic conflict as well as the traitorous characteristics of Seymour Krelborn. The main themes of the play are horror and comedy. I think that the production of the play was very successful as they had the audience locked into the story and overall, it was a very enjoyable and entertaining experience.
Have you ever tried to outsmart a lion? In my novel, the Ghost and the Darkness by Dewey Gram, two lions terrorize and kill the workers trying to construct a bridge in Africa. The protagonist, John. H. Paterson, is an intelligent architect and a strong leader always trying to rationalize problems, but is also brash and arrogant sometimes leading to him overlooking a major flaw in his plan. The other major characters are Starling, a world famous British hunter in charge of protecting the camp, and Samuel, a native African from a nearby tribe who came to help with surviving the wildlife. Samuel is constantly challenging Patterson’s plans and points out obvious flaws with them, while Starling is audacious and dashing, constantly putting himself in harm's way so he can succeed.
In Ghosts by Edwidge Danticat, the main character, Pascal, learns about how unjust the world is. After having his idea for a radio show stolen from him, one of his acquaintances, Tiye, ordered the shooting of the radio station which it aired on. Because of this, Pascal was blamed for the ordering of the shooting, and was beaten by the police for information on the gang that did it: the Baz Benin. Pascal learns that the world can be a truly unjust place to live in, and that people’s judgement of a situation will inevitably lead to injustice being served.
Was Eleanor mentally healthy or unhealthy? In the book The Haunting of Hill House, written by Shirley Jackson, the main character was Eleanor Vance. She was a 32-year-old woman that showed signs that she was mentally unhealthy. After receiving an invitation to stay at Hill House from Dr. Montague, a stranger to Eleanor and the rest of the invited guests, she made the carefree decision to accept the invitation to the comfortable country home (2). She felt as though Hill House was her calling, even though she had never laid eyes on the property and had no knowledge of what to expect. There was no way to know if the doctor could have been a psychopath that wanted Eleanor for some crazed morbid “experiment,” yet she had
a dull grey colour as if it had lost the will to live and stopped
The Nightmare begins with Saidi pitting his protagonist, Ben Chadiza, against his antagonist, the witchdoctor. A group of seven witchdoctors, is described as they encircle Chadiza: “It was a macabre scene, which in other circumstances the sophisticated Mr. Benjamin Chadiza would have carelessly attributed to his rather flamboyant imagination” (Saidi 421). The definitions of the specific words in this quote speak volumes as to its underlying meaning. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary macabre means: “comprising or including a personalized representation of death”. Mr. Chadiza is described as sophisticated: “having a refined knowledge of the ways of the world cultivated especially through wide experience.” In using these words Saidi gives Chadiza the identity of personified worldly knowledge and foreshadows the character’s courtship with death that continues through the story in the person of the witchdoctor. Saidi further identifies Chadiza and his wife as the “children” in this allegory by saying that Chadiza had “Cried like a small child” during his nightmare and upon awakening, was comforted by his wife in a way that resembles a mother comforting her child: “His wife put her arms around him and soothed him with her warmth, pressing her breasts to his chest and whispering comfort close to his ear” (422). The witchdoctor also refers to Chadiza as “my son” in paragraph 39 (425). Toward the end of the story it is revealed that Chadiza’s wife, Maria, is the biological granddaughter of the witchdoctor and that her mother had forsaken the witchdoctor “because of his sorcery” (427). Mr. Chadiza and his wife are therefore identified as the children of this sorcerer in figurative and literal ways. But they are more than that. The...
to see him less and less.“They don’t want to be around me at all now,”
Paranormal Activity is any activity that scientific evidence cannot prove (Svedholm, M. L., 2012). Svedholm (2012) stated that “Paranormal consists of two words: para and normal.” “Para” means against or outside. Therefore, paranormal activities are events that are outside normal activities. Svedholm’s (2012) provided a few examples of paranormal activities that consist of ghosts, extraterrestrial life, UFOs, and Cryptids.
When I was younger I couldn’t imagine going to a haunted house with my Uncle Jon, Aunt Sam, and my four cousins Khristian, Jazmine, Felicity, and Lizzie who seem to not be afraid of anything when you were eight years old. I can because it happened to me. It seemed like I was the only one nervous on the drive up to the terrifying haunted house. As we got closer and I could tell this was going to be an eventful night.
Human beings are diverse in what they like, dislike, and share with each other. As reality has shown human beings have emotions that either tell one to laugh or run away. Emotions are not usually controlled and when one has an opposite reaction to the emotion present it creates a question about why. Fear, for instance, is an emotion that usually elicits a fight or flight response. When fear elicits enjoyment, something deeper about our emotions are at work. The enjoyment of fear is also a topic with little information. If you research this you find a lot of qualitative information, but hardly any quantitative research. My research question is how is fear enjoyed in haunted houses.
The next morning me and a friend that I had met locally. Decided to go