...Artists creates different styles in their songs, just like when authors create different tones and other things to get the reader attention. The Monkey’s Paw was about a paw that was cursed and had three wishes. Due to W. W Jacob strong language the reader can get glimpse of what the theme is or might be. You get what you ask for is a theme Jacob develops in the Monkey’s Paw through his use of irony, tone and comparison. W. W Jacob uses tone, in the story Monkey’s paw to show that people get what they ask for. The characters throughout the passage comment, on many problems and occasions. The reader can come up with many descriptions about the characters, based on the tone. The narrator claims ” well it just might be of what you call magic ” (Jacob 88). Based on his strong use of language, the reader can realize that he is...
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...The mood for “The Monkey’s Paw,” written by W. W. Jacobs, is strange. The mood is shown through three elements. Setting, imagery, and the type of narrator. The setting in this story is the White’s family household. At the end of the story, there is a strange knocking on the door of the house. On page 384, the story says: “He heard the creaking of the bolt as it came slowly back, and at the same moment he found the monkey’s paw, and frantically breathed his third and last wish. The knocking ceased suddenly, although the echoes of it were still in the house. He heard the chair drawn back, and the door opened. A cold wind rushed up the staircase, and a long loud wail of disappointment and misery from his wife gave him courage to run down to her side, and then go to the gate beyond....
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...would you still consider using something evil, even though someone already warned you about the dangers that will come? If you would still accept it what would you wish for? What would you do if things don’t turn out how you thought it was going to be? So would you or would you not accept the artifact? In the popular story “the monkey’s paw” by W.W Jacobs a family is broken apart after they are given a cursed talisman that grants you wishes. But little of what they know that every wish would have a bad consequence. Mr. White friend major Morris has given them the paw to make wishes but explain to them that the paw is evil and they shouldn’t have helped. The evidence will show that major Morris is responsible for Herbert’s death. He...
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...the short story of the Monkey's Paw has many differences. The scenes, characters the humor and dialogue all altered. The director improved the story of the Monkey's Paw in the movie by adding more scenes and the characters had more personality. The music played in the movie added more suspense too. Specific scenes where different moods were set, created that suspense. The humor used with Herbert was not used in the short story. Herbert picked at Mr.White about the monkey paw being a myth and not being real. The irony showed in that is after Herbert picked fun at his father. After Herbert made a remark then left for work that very morning after the White's wished for five hundred pounds. Herbert got in a horrific accident that day at work. The accident kills him. Later that day a mysterious man arrives at the Whites with the news of their sons death and a letter payment for them from the factory. The payment was five hundred pounds. This bringing the story to its climax after the first wish being made. The music and the actors show more suspense, leaving the watchers think. What's going to happen next? Was it a coincidence they received five hundred pounds? Is the monkey's paw really cursed? The characters in the movie were all the same except a couple were changed in the movie. Sargent Major in the short story came to the Whites to visit because it had been twenty years since he had visited. He was a heavy drinker, had even three whiskeys just before telling his story about the...
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...the short story of the Monkey's Paw has many differences. The scenes, characters the humor and dialogue all altered. The director improved the story of the Monkey's Paw in the movie by adding more scenes and the characters had more personality. The music played in the movie added more suspense too. Specific scenes where different moods were set, created that suspense. The humor used with Herbert was not used in the short story. Herbert picked at Mr.White about the monkey paw being a myth and not being real. The irony showed in that is after Herbert picked fun at his father. After Herbert made a remark then left for work that very morning after the White's wished for five hundred pounds. Herbert got in a horrific accident that day at work. The accident kills him. Later that day a mysterious man arrives at the Whites with the news of their sons death and a letter payment for them from the factory. The payment was five hundred pounds. This bringing the story to its climax after the first wish being made. The characters in the movie were all the same except a couple were changed in the movie. Sargent Major in the short story came to the Whites to visit because it had been twenty years since he had visited. He was a heavy drinker, had even three whiskeys just before telling his story about the "monkeys paw" he had brought to show Mr.White. What changed in the movie was Sargent Major was the Sea Captin. The Sea Captain didn't change much about him from the short story but he wasn't...
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...Monkey's Paw One of the themes for “Monkey's Paw” is be careful what you wish for; don't test fate. First off, the Sergeant states the following, “don't blame me for what happens.” With this sentence you can imply that something bad is going to happen. Second, the Sergeant not only says that but he says “I don't know what the first two mans wishes were but I know the third wish was death.” This implies that something or someone might die. You should learn to be happy with what you have and don't go out of existence wanting something fate might not have laid out for you. The second theme of this short story is be careful what you wish for. This is another theme because Mr.White wished for “two-hundred pounds”. Correspondingly, the very next...
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...“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones” (Stephen King). This quote by Stephen King means that us as humans make up these fictional horrors that scare us half to death to make the horrors of real life seem as though they were nothing. That in essence the horrors that we create in our heads or write down on paper are only a distraction or a diversion that allow us to deal with real life problems, and to make them seem as though they were only 2 feet tall when in reality they’re bigger than the monsters that want to grab your ankles in the night. To summarize, if this quote is true then Stephen King’s life must’ve been quite frightful considering all of his stories leave chills up the spines of its readers. Subsequently, Stephen...
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...King: father, husband, most famous horror writer of all time. With many successful books, Stephen King has quickly made himself the most renowned author of the horror genre and can prove it from the countless awards he has received like the British Fantasy Award, Edgar Grand Master Award, and Goodreads Choice Awards Best Fiction. Because so many of his books are successful, many of them have been adapted into mini series on television or even into movies. Most notably the screen adaptations for The Shining (1980) and It (1990 and 2017) are what most people immediately think about....
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...tsunami wave that not only became highest grossing horror film in the country, but also shuddered Taiwanese, Korean, Hong Kong film markets. Following years many publications included it to the numerous symbolic "top 10 most scary films" lists. And when Steven Spielberg bought the rights to make the Hollywood remake it was seen as official evidence that Japanese horror cinema became new trendsetter in this genre and gained cult status in the West. Nowadays with numerous follow-ups within the Ring franchise and triggered a trend of Western remakes "Ring" is viewed as exemplary illustrative Asian horror movie. I will argue that the wide success of the movie is caused not by its deep cultural ties with Japanese cinema and Japanese horror movies in particular, but because on the contrary "Ring" has little to do with its traditional background. Hideo Nakata deliberately cut off all the cultural traces in order to make cinematic language of the movie universal and cosmopolitan thus giving a way for its intercultural translation and to be easily replicated. In order to do it first I will analyze different Japanese merchandizing strategies and study the film as a media product. Second, I will briefly overlook history and main stylistic traits of Japanese horror movie genre. In my general overlook on Japanese horror cinema, I will focus on two main horror film sub-genres kaidan and ero guro and will give few examples of classical horror films. Then, I will analyze plot and themes of the...
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...and forms, also it has a harmonious whole. His powerful symphony and well crafted and delivered speech, in his ways, move the listener. Audience pay all their attention to Obama. I learnt a lot as I was lack of symphony preformence. | Do either Part B OR Part C to complete your reflection record for this module. Submit only one part. Part B My Activity Language ActivityUnderline as appropriate | CILL activity Others pls specify | Title | Movie watching – The Ring | Part 1(~ 50 words) | It is a horror film that produce from America , adapt from a famous horror film from Japan-----Ringu. Its about a girl who become a ghost and the story behind it. All that history is discover by the Main character. | Part 2 & 3 (~ 100 words) | At first, I felt a little bit afraid of the film. Because I’ve been told that it is a really terrifying and that make me a little nervous. But when I finished watching the film, I found that there are some meaningful stories and things in that film. That told me to think how other people feel sometimes. To conclude, I really enjoy watching moving in Cill. Because it feels so warm and joyful together....
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...sets up the prompt and the essay’s required elements. One of the things you’ll notice about this assignment is that elements of it are modeled off of previous assignments. This is deliberate, as they’ve given you practice at this type of argumentation. This special topic section of English Composition II has focused upon the horror genre as practiced by American writers. We’ve read and discussed several works from horror authors over the course of the nation’s history, and considered in-depth longer fiction from the 20th Century horror icon Shirley Jackson. We’ve also delved into popular culture, examining comic books and, time permitting, television shows and movies. For this essay, you’ll be asked to pick another horror story (see The Topic section for some ideas) to add to this course’s discussion. In the interest of time, I suggest a short story, but you could read a novel for this project as well. More specifically, your essay should do the following things: (1) Provide your readers unfamiliar with your chosen text some context about the work, including a brief summary of the story. Likely, this would occur in your first support paragraph after your introduction. (2) Review the story. This is your opportunity to argue whether or not the text makes for a “good read.” You may turn to the elements of fiction that we’ve worked on this semester as a way of detailing why you feel the way you do about the book. You might also turn to any reviews or analysis of the tale or...
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...The themes in the Canterville Ghost The Canterville Ghost is a ghost story. Ghost stories belong to the genre called horror literature, whose purpose is to scare the reader with situations that cause horror or fear. The most common technique is suspense, the slow insinuating of a doubt or of a frightening revelation, which keeps the reader interested. This story can be defined an inverted ghost story, because a lot of elements are different from the traditional ones. The main difference is the fact that Mr Otis is not scared by the ghost, while usually people should be. Moreover, the Ghost itself is frightened by the Otis twins. There is also comic relief bordering on farce, including buckets of water balanced on half-open doors. But the story has a dark centre. The crime and retribution which led to the haunting is ghastly, and this is really not a comedy at all, but a tale of redemption through the power of love. The innocent girl of the family, appropriately called Virginia, prays for the ghost and endures terrifying if unnamed experiences to release the ghost. Also, The Canterville Ghost is both a parody of the traditional ghost story and a satire of the American way of life. Wilde obviously intends to satirize American materialism, but he pokes fun at English traditional culture as well. American vs. British society: “The Canterville Ghost” is a study in contrasts. Wilde takes an American family, places them in a British setting, then, through a series...
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...fantasy/horror writer who turned a troubling past into a flourishing career. Mr. King was born Stephen Edwin King to Donald and Ruth Pillsbury King on September 21, 1947. Stephen was described by himself as an unpopular, ungainly child. His father left his mother while Mr. King was young, so he spent time in Fort Wayne, Indiana and Durham, Maine. Mr. King had several hobbies as a child that had an effect on his writing. He would write his own short fiction. Stephen also found his father’s old collection of horror and fantasy books, which Stephen read. Horror movies were a favorite for young Stephen. Mr. King’s mother worked several jobs, so he began to write as a distraction. At the young age of 12, Mr. King would write and submit short fiction works to newspapers. He first professionally published at the age of 18, more short fiction. After graduating from college, Mr. King turned to liquor and drugs before publishing his first novel, Carrie....
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...Edith Cushing is a writer in the 19th century. She is the daughter of a wealthy businessman Carter Cushing, who happens to lives in New York. She’s often visited by her mother's ghost warning her about Crimson Peak. Edith falls in love with Thomas Sharpe, who is an English aristocrat and inventor. He came to the United States seeking investors and Edith’s father happens to be one of them. Carter Cushing wasn’t impressed with Thomas’s prototype so he rejected his proposal. Mr. Cushing disapproves of Edith and Thomas relationship so he bribes him into returning to England. Shortly, Mr. Cushing is murdered but his death was ruled as an accident. Thomas marries Edith and brings her back to England. As Edith settles in she finds Thomas sister Lucille...
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...Both “Knocking” by Rick Hautala and “The Road Virus Heads North” by Stephen King are masterfully crafted horror stories that lead readers on a psychological rollercoaster. The authors are able to generate such a detailed and in-depth atmosphere that it causes readers to picture themselves in the terrifying situations that they have devised for those reading. Through the evolution of “monsters”, point-of-view and atmospheric conditions which help to create a mood that engulfs readers both King and Hautala are able to write brilliant horror stories. “Monsters” do not have to be literal to create an enjoyable piece of horror fiction. King and Hautala are both able to create thrilling stories by utilizing fear of the unknown and exploiting the reader’s own fear. In “Knocking” Martin Gordon has become overcome by his fear of the unknown and can’t leave his house. The “monster” created by Hautala exists only in Gordon’s head and it is the fear that something could possibly be out there waiting to get him. “His eyes felt like they were bugging from their sockets as he watched…and waited…wishing that the knocking would stop and the person would go away and leave him alone.” At this point I knew that the monster was psychological because without any proof that anyone is there Gordon becomes convinced that someone out to get him and won’t think logically about what else it could be. It seemed to me like Gordon wouldn’t allow it to be anything else. Fear the “monster” has crept into Gordon’s...
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