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Transformations In The Fall Of The House Of Usher

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Transformations play a huge role in scaring people. Transformations happen all the time to make a movie scary. People get scared of the change so the author inserts transformations throughout the movie or book to keep it interesting or scary. There were transformations that happened in the story, “ The Fall of the House of Usher.” A quote from the story it says, “I heard them- many, many days ago- yet I dared not- I dared not speak! And now- tonight- Ethelred- ha!ha!- the breaking of the hermit’s door, and the death cry of the dragon, and the clangor of the shield- say, rather, the rending of her coffin and the grating of the iron hinges of her prison, and her struggles within the coppered archway of the vault!” This is an example of some transformations in one of the readings from this unit. This quote is significant to this story to maintain the element of fear because it is explaining how they locked a girl in a coffin still alive. This is the scary part and the way it is said helps. This story transformed into sorta normal to scary. …show more content…

The little girl named Alma transformed into the doll that looked like her after she touch it. The story was kind of weird but nobody saw the conclusion coming. The audience just thinks she is going after a doll that looks like her and then all of a sudden when she grabs it her body disappears and she has become the doll. The author uses changes to make this film different. For example, every time the Alma looks away, the doll moves to a different part of the room. Then when the door magically opens and the toy boy on the bicycle tries to get out this shows the audience that something may not be right. The author did a good job using transformations to

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