In The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern, the narrator contrasts an ominous and dark-looking circus with an inviting and bright one by creating a new reality to convey that things are not always as they seem. The unusual circus is eerie and creates a feeling of uncertainty as to what is behind the tents. When the circus arrived in town, nothing previously mentioned its arrival as, “No announcements precede it, no paper notices on downtown posts and billboards, no mentions or advertisements in local newspapers'' (p.10). The lack of information posted anywhere leads to a mystery as to why the circus is there, leaving the citizens to become curious and confused.
Stumbling about among all those creepers. More grave nodding; they knew about nightmares.” Little children were frightened because they had no mothers to comfort them and protect them from the “beast” because they were stranded on an island in the middle of
In the thrilling and suspenseful novel The Cellar by Natasha Preston, the main character Summer was followed in the streets of England at night by a stranger that later chloroformed her and took her to a basement in the middle of the English countryside. She latter was awoken by three strangers all smiling as if they were best friends. The strangers were dressed like dolls, each matching with long sweaters and matching pants, the only difference was the delicately embroidered flower on the sweaters. The three girls all looked as if they were zombies all hypnotized by something, but showing only one emotion fear. And that is when Summer realizes she has been kidnapped.
In this supernatural thriller, you’ll be taken along as Cera recounts her experiences in her memoir of how she discovered that the women in her mama’s family lineage were actually a long line of witches responsible for the protection of her new home and community. As Cera writes she will explain to you how her honest curiosity along with her rebellious, down-to-earth nature quickly got her into more than she could handle, mentally and physically, as she uncovers the many deep and well-hidden layers in her relationships with her mother and grandmother. Synopsis:
Genre: Non-Fiction PLOT: At the age of 63, Maddy Hudson is still young at heart. One summer, she finds out that her old friend Katherine Tweed passed away. At the age of seven, Maddy first met the mysterious Katherine Tweed while playing with her best friend Billy. Rumors all spread that Katherine Tweed was an awful person, but Maddy and Billy realize that the rumors are not true.
The novel follows Stevie an eleven year old girl who lives in Southside Chicago throughout her middle and high school years. Stevie goes through the social pressure of her peers and family to tell her how to act, think, and look. Slowly throughout
The Woman in Black is a novel that was written by Susan Hill in the attempt to imitate gothic literature in the late 18th century. In doing this she hopes to terrify and intrigue the reader with various techniques in which I will go through over the course of this essay. By using this methods she attempts to amplify the feelings of the atmosphere and create a weary environment filled with tension and suspense. Various traditional gothic techniques are used, in order to gain a sense of fear and insecurity. The author, Susan Hill, attempts to balance gothic ideas, like pathetic fallacy, with gothic literary devices, such as short sentences and repetition to maintain the readers full divided attention.
Susan Hill’s Woman in Black is about Arthur Kipps, a lawyer in London, who has been given the task of filing the papers of the dead Mrs. Drablow. While on his journey and at Eel Marsh House he experiences some interesting and eerie happenings. In Chapter 10; “Whistle and I’ll Come to You” Hill uses a variety of literary techniques to create an atmosphere of fear and foreboding. Hill uses sensory imagery to create fear and foreboding.
Almost as quickly as lightning can strike a tree and illuminate the world from its darkness, the calm presence of the sun can extinguish the unrest. Up until this point in Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë suggests that the overarching conflict of fire and ice can never truly be resolved through the oscillation of Jane’s fiery nature at Gateshead, to an icy nature at Lowood, to fiery again at Thornfield. After running away from Thornfield and finding shelter with the Rivers at Moor House, Jane begins to teach at the local all-girls village-school in Morton. By crafting contrasting moods from day to night while at the village-school, Brontë highlights Jane’s inner battle between logic and passion.
Hedda’s ‘hysteria’ is because of the fact she is unsuited to the female roles of society. Her decision of marriage and her unwanted pregnancy has aided a lot in her mental hysteric situation. In A Doll’s House, the protagonist of the play Nora Helmer’s hysteria has released in the Tarantella dance. Similarly, playing of piano by Hedda helps in the release of her hysteria. Being a daughter of General and having military background, hedda is following strict codes of conducts and narrow traditions in her family, because of it, not only aristocratic manners but ethical nullity of that bourgeois class gets prevail in her attitude.
A huge crow appears to become the central figure of the movie. When the scene changes, the audience sees the same girl again. Sarah, an eleven-year-old girl, goes to the graves of her friends Eric and Shelly. The same cemetery at night becomes the set where the main character appears. Initiated by the crow’s chipping the grave stone, the man crawls out of the grave.
It is a cold, cloudy day in the empty town of Paris, France with snowflakes falling from the dark sky and onto the buildings. A young girl wearing a gray beanie and a green vest walks into a cobblestone alley. As she glances to the left and comes upon a wall with a numerous number of names, and decides to add her name onto the wall too. The chalkboard filled with names now says, "Alma" in the middle, and as she stares at the wall, she hears a creaking sound behind her. Alma curiously turns around and walks toward a store, and there she sees a display of a doll in a green vest and gray beanie.
A young college graduate, Skeeter, returns home to be with her ailing mother, and in her ambition to succeed as a writer, turns to the black maids she knows. Skeeter is determined to collect their oral histories and write about a culture that values social facade and ignores the human dignity of many members of the community. Two maids, Aibileen and Minny, agree to share their stories, stories of struggle and daily humiliation, of hard work and low pay, of fear for themselves. It is a time of change, when
(O 'connor 1009). She starts the story off with a sense of darkness and suspense which goes on through the whole story. As the story proceeds the violent and disturbing imagery
In Virginia Woolf’s “Street Haunting”, the reader follows Woolf through a winter’s walk through London under the false pretense to buy a new pencil. During her journey through the streets of London, she is made aware of a number of strangers. The nature of her walk is altered by these strangers she encounters. Street Haunting comes to profound conclusions about the fluidity of individuality when interacting with other people. Woolf is enabled by the presence of others to subvert her individuality.
