Finds Roderick in house, super sick and pale, not himself. Roderick is sick with problem with nerves. Nerves are raw and sense of fear is greater than usual and is afraid of his own house. Roderick tells narrator that his sister Madeline is also sick. Narrator spends a few days at the house trying to comfort Roderick but can’t make him happy.
6) He remembers writing poems that are now locked in his drawer at home, along with a play called "Saul." 7) He pretty much explains how Kemmerich isn't going to need them, and that they should go to Muller instead of some random nurse who would steel them the second he dies. 8) Himmelstoss has a very bad temper and is seen as one of the meanest commanders. Another person in charge finds Paul and Cropp cleaning the barrack and sends Himmelstoss to finish the rest. This makes him even more angry.
King sets these distant parameters to let you know just how alone our protagonist was which actually heightens the intensity of the drama and fear through his words. Gramma is a short fiction story about a boy left alone at home to care for his gramma while is mother is away in town on an emergency with his brother. The protagonist in the story is George an eleven year old boy which we will soon learn has many fears. The antagonist is Gramma, an elderly sick woman who George is fearful of. There is a history of possible witch craft and in the end she is possessed.
Edgar Allen Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher” is one of his most excellent pieces. It’s a story about an unnamed character who visits a longtime friend’s home after receiving a letter. He immediately notices that the house gives an evil vibe, and the day itself is gloomy. Throughout his entrance into the home, he details to us the frightfulness of the home. He finds his friend Roderick sickly, and stays with him for a few days in order to cheer him up.
Back in the Lowman residence, Linda scolds her sons for abandoning her father back at the restaurant. Biff eventually talks with Willy, unable to keep to himself. He says that the Lomans are nothing but ordinary people, and may be replaced overnight. Biff cries in his father’s shoulder, and Willy takes this as a sign of love and respect. In another hallucination, Willy talks with Ben.
An unnamed narrator arrives at the House of Usher, a very creepy mansion owned by his boyhood friend Roderick Usher. Roderick has been sick lately, afflicted by a disease of the mind, and wrote to his friend, our narrator, asking for help. The narrator spends some time admiring the awesomely spooky Usher edifice. While doing so, he explains that Roderick and his sister are the last of the Usher bloodline, and that the family is famous for its dedication to the arts (music, painting, literature, etc.). Eventually, the narrator heads inside to see his friend.
He feels alienated, meaningless, and dehumanized. Gregor is not capable of establishing a relationship, he says: “The steady stream of faces never become anything closer than acquaintances” (Kafka 8). Even as a human he feels unable to connect with others. This feeling becomes magnified through his transformation; not only is he emotionally alienated from society, he is also physically isolated in his room. According to Freudian’s theory he displays signs of a core issue referred to as Fear of Intimacy.
The house's state of disrepair is a symbol for the moral, physical, and mental state of Roderick and his sister. Illness is obvious in the two, and the house, which used to be a grand estate, has sunk along with the death of the last two Ushers. So, it is a complete "fall" of the house and the family whose name the house carries. The Narrator arrives at the House of Usher in order to visit a friend. While the relationship between him and Roderick is never fully explained, the reader does learn that they were boyhood friends.
Short story: Signs and Symbols Author: Vladimir Nabokov The short story ‘Signs and Symbols’ is a tragic story of an elderly Russian couple having a deranged son in a sanatorium. The entire story revolves around the theme of tragedy. Despite the simple story plot, much of the little family’s background is revealed to the reader. The story begins with the couple, “they”, thinking of what they should get for their son on his birthday. This is apparently a problem to them, for the boy had no desires, given his incurable mental illness, “Mad-made objects…could be found in his abstract world.” The couple finally picked a basket with jellies for their son.
White Noise is based on a depressing world view. Jack asks: “why do these possessions carry such sorrowful weight? There is a darkness attached to them, a foreboding” (6), why would this view be interpreted over possessions like boxes? That is a very disappointing outlook on life! This dreadful view throughout the novel is also expressed when Murray explains that “once you are out of school, it is only a matter of time before you experience the vast loneliness and dissatisfaction of consumers…” (50).