This viewpoint is particularly effective in this chapter, as readers, we can relate to the terror and anxiety felt by Arthur. At the start of the chapter he comments on feeling ‘calm and cheerful’ however this state of contentment disappears at the chapter progresses – ‘I sat, too terrified to move’ and ‘my throat felt constricted and I began to shiver.’ In the ghost story genre this technique is effective – we can imagine ourselves in Arthur’s place – reliving his experiences. Hill uses the senses to create a sense of terror in this chapter during which the theme of childhood is developed when Kipps discovers the locked nursery. The use of the bumping sound ‘bump
This creates a permanent sense of worry, for if Tom makes one wrong move, he is dead. The reader also feels great suspense upon finding out Tom is locked out of his apartment, and the only way he can back in is to break the window with his fist. Tom explains that there is only a fifty percent chance this will work, since he may stumble if he does not punch the glass hard enough. This adds yet another layer of suspense, for we know as the reader that Tom must choose to break in or not soon. These layers of suspense greatly add in looking into Tom’s head and understanding if Tom can comprehends the peril he put himself into.
How does she give them this enormous impact on our own feelings? She mainly uses techniques such as the presence of spider, rhythm of sentences, vocabulary and repetition, or links to Mr.Kipps’ senses, combined with foreshadowing, imagery and finally flashbacks, to help us understand Arthur Kipps’ state of mind At the beginning of this extract, we see that Arthur Kipps is afraid of this rocking sound, as at the beginning of the paragraph, we can read that he “switches on every light he could find as he went”. But even being afraid, he knows that he must retain control of himself. In this part, Spider helps him being calm, and vice versa: “I must retain control of myself, rather as a mother will feel obliged to put a brave face in order to calm her frightened child.” Here, the “frightened child” is in fact Spider, who by being pet and soothed calmed him. At the end if this paragraph, we can feel that the rhythm of the sentences grow quicker, because of the numerous comas and exclamative sentences, as if he was beginning to lose his calm and reassurance.
As with all of Pride and Prejudice the story is told by an omniscient narrator in the third person. This helps create perspectives from all the different characters, which in this chapter is mainly Elizabeth and Mr Collins. As well as using the third person to help aid the telling of chapter 19, as with most of the novel, the story of Elizabeth’s rejection of Mr Collins is told through the dialogue between characters “ I am very sensible of the honour of your proposals, but it is impossible for me to do otherwise than decline them”. This doesn’t just allow the reader to gain an incite into the story but also helps them to draw their own conclusions about the characters. For instance, Mr Collins long, pompous speeches help the reader to realise his character within the novel and how he is a person who is full of pride in himself (which is one of the themes of the novel).
We are reminded again with the ending to remember that Huck is just a simple boy who just wants to go with the flow of whatever life brings. The journey of life itself is half of the fun. The end of the novel brings Huck full circle almost exactly where he started as to stay consistent with the novel. As Huck made it clear he didn't want to be civilized he says the same about Aunt Sally were he, Jim and Tom are at the end of the novel. Aunt Sally is Tom’s Sawyers family where Tom and Huck rescue
“‘I spend a lot of time at my desk groaning, wondering why on earth I'm putting myself through it. I spend a lot of time in a state of panic. But when writing goes well, it's marvelous.’” (Pevere 3). To me, this is the most interesting and thought-provoking excerpt in the article because it proves that much of writing is hard work. These words are also very encouraging and eye-opening to me because I used to think the emotions described were a sign that I was not truly a writer.
Chapter 21 discussed how abnormalities of characters are a big sign to show how important they are. While reading this chapter, so many characters came up in my head, whether they were in books, tv shows/ movies, or games. These characters did have abnormalities that set them apart from the rest of society, however, made them obvious as the main character and hero/heroine of the story. So, when I read this chapter, I actually had an "aha!" moment.
I can easily understand why the short story made such an impact in the literary and medical worlds. However, I have a hard time understanding how the story is enjoyable to read. Personally, I could not sit through the story and finish it in one sitting. The repetitive language and obsessive nature of the narrator gets extremely irritating. While other gothic tale’s we’ve read in class have been spooky, ironic, or at least entertaining, I feel that this story is literally sickeningly long.
The first being a form of entertainment to the two as they fantasize through the movies while they are stuck in their prison cell, as they try to escape from the hardship and the tediousness of their imprisonment. But on a deeper level the movies serve as a method for Molina to escape from the social oppression he faces as an homosexual as he fantasizes about the movies. Furthermore one notices that Molina identifies himself with the female characters of his stories, which is a way for Molina to escape from his forced sex as a male as he prefers to be thought of as a female. Molina reinforces this notion through his name, which is actually Molino, he has changed this to a more feminine sounding name Molina. Again this is done in order for Molina to escape from himself as a man as he fantasizes about being a woman.
Sometimes the characters can change completely and it turns out they are nothing like they seemed throughout the entire story. This is what Beerbohm and Saki do to throw in a big twist at the end. They make the reader trust the characters and then feel dumbfounded at first after getting to the end of the story. It is best to be questioning the characters while reading a story. Every detail about a character is there for a good reason.