In stories with similar authors, there is always going to be similar themes or genres. The “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edger Allan Poe and “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortazar are great examples of this. Two different short stories, with a bunch of differences and similarities. Reading “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “House Taken Over” is like reading one story, but with different outcomes. At the end of “The Fall of the House of Usher” it says, “While I gazed, this fissure rapidly widened----there came a fierce breath of the whirlwind--the entire orb of the satellite burst at once upon my sight----my brain reeled as I saw the mighty walls rushing asunder----there was a long tumultuous shouting like the voice of a thousand waters----and the deep and dark tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the family members dying and the house collapsing. …show more content…
It wouldn’t do to have some poor devil decide to go in and rob the house, at that hour and with the house taken over.” In “House of Usher” by Julio Cortazar, the short story ends with the siblings escaping the house as it had gotten fully taken over by something. The difference between these two stories is that one ends with the siblings dying and the house collapsing and that in the other one it ends with the house being locked up for good and the siblings out on the streets. That is one way these two stories are different. What is a difference without a