...to forget them, but on the other hand, thinking about them could lead to eternal grieve. Have you ever lost a beloved and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? Well, I have… Then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish, you had back. You start talking to them in the belief, they can hear you, and sometimes you have those moments, where you can feel and see them. Exactly this situation, the main character has to deal with in Bernie McGill’s short story “No Angel” published in 2011. The main character of the story is Annie; she is a middle-aged woman, who is the only living member left of the family. The story is based around Annie talking to her father’s ghost; therefor it makes us believe that the supernatural does exist. Formerly she had a brother named Robbie, who was three years younger than her, also both of her parents were alive. Unidentified persons tragically beat Robbie to death, right after he had failed his driving test. The family lamented over his death, especially the mother, who mourned for six months where she barely spoke, until she one day suddenly dropped dead in the kitchen with no specific cause. Annie’s father thought it was because of her deep grieving, and the grief over her beloved son faced her again and again. “…her heart never mended. ” After the death of the mother and Robbie, Annie lived with her father for nearly twenty-two...
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...Chapter-1 | 3 | 2.1 | What is Ghost | 3 | 2.2 | Frequently Repetitive Ghost Character in Bengali Literature | 3 | 3 | Chapter-2 | 5 | 3.1 | The Impact of Ghost Story in Bengali Literature | 5 | 3.2 | Some Stories of Ghosts in The Context of Bangladesh | 7 | 3.2.1 | The Ghostly Footsteps | 7 | 3.2.2 | Shahin Er Golpo | 8 | 4 | Chapter-3 | 9 | 4.1 | The Impact of Ghost Story in Bengali Cinema | 9 | 5 | Conclusion | 10 | 6 | References | | Index Abstract: There are many cultures in the world. The most common part of every culture is stories, and we will find Ghost stories which is available in every culture. Our culture is Bengali culture. Ghost stories are the noticable part of our literature. Everyone of all age loves Ghost stories. Bengali Ghost stories are little different from other because of the culture, environment, religion and the way of life. Ghost stories have great effect on our film industry and drama. Ghosts are an important part of folklore in Bengal. Fairy tales, both old and new often use the concept of ghosts. In modern day Bengali literature as well, references to ghosts may be often found. 1. Introduction 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. Ghosts are an important part of folklore in Bengal...
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...A Christmas Carol is a very deep story about a man named Scrooge who redeemed himself from being and mean old man who hates christmas to ok guy who likes christmas just like he did when he was just a boy. This redemption happened because of the three ghost who appear in the story of the christmas carol. The name of the three ghost were past, present and yet to come and they were named because of obvious reasons. The first ghost shows Scrooge the past and its visions of Scrooge loving christmas as a boy and this gets scrooge all teary eyed. The second ghost shows Scrooge how he is living and Scrooge doesn't like what he sees, he sees that he is just a mean old man and no one like him as a person. The last ghost is what really hits Scrooge the hardest....
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...Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 to John and Elizabeth Dickens. Charles was the second of eight children. Charles parents became debtor prisoners and during that time, at the age of twelve Charles went to live with a family friend Elizabeth Rylance. There Charles attended a private school for three years. In May 1827 Charles worked as a junior clerk for the law offices of Ellis and Blackmore. In 1832 at the age of 20 Charles submitted his first story A Dinner at Poplar Walk. As a young man Charles also mastered shorthand, and before long was employed as a Parliamentary reporter. In 1836 at the age of 25 he started working at Pickwick Papers. At Pickwick Papers he published many of his novels in monthly installment in the paper. The first of these installments were from the novel Oliver’s Twist, which would later be published in 1838. Some of Charles Dickens other novels include Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Story, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend. Charles Dickens first love was a woman by the name of Maria Beadnell, after Maria’s parents disapproved of their courtship Maria was sent away to school in Paris. On April 2, 1836 after a one year engagement Charles married Catherine Thomson Hogarth. Together Charles and Catherine would have 10 children and be together for 18 years. In 1857 however Charles would hire Ellen Ternan to star in one of his plays and...
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...The ghost of King Hamlet William Shakespeare’s drama ‘Hamlet’ has been converted into a film production several times and in various ways. Producers of these films such as Dyson Lovell and David Barron have different ways they portray these movies. In comparing the ghost of King Hamlet in the movie production ‘Hamlet’ starring Mel Gibson in 1990 and ‘Hamlet’ produced in 1996 starring Kenneth Branagh, both films have similarities as well as differences in the setting, tone, and character’s traits. In the film ‘Hamlet’ produced in 1990 starring Paul Scofield as the ghost of King Hamlet and Mel Gibson as Prince Hamlet, the story begins with King Hamlet’s funeral. The setting for the introduction of King Hamlet’s ghost starts on the roof of the castle where Horatio explains to Prince Hamlet he has seen his father. Horatio explains this in a calm and detailed manner of how the ghost of King Hamlet appears to them. The environment of this scene is more relaxed and pleasant as young Hamlet joins the three to wait for his father's ghost to appear once again. The ghost of King Hamlet now appears in a sneaky way by entering the scene quietly and reserved standing in the corner of the castle. Hamlet is not afraid of the ghost, and when the ghost begins to walk away like a slithering snake without speaking, Hamlet follows him. The ghost of King Hamlet does not look evil or scary. He looks just as he did at his funeral. The ghost speaks in a humble, calm and sad voice. King Hamlet’s ghost...
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...like other headmasters, does not ask lessons, does not look grave, does not get annoyed if someone laughs a little. He tells stories if you ask. Those are beautiful stories, but Nitu knows, all these are made up. Nitu does not like made up stories. She wants to hear real stories. Nitu loves to hear stories, but she gives her condition, it must be true story. Today, Nitu’s uncle, Zahedur Rahman has started a ghost story. He has a bowl of puffed rice in front. Tea in a large cup. He is taking puffed rice and giving sip to the tea. Nitu is lying in front of him. She is holding her head on two hands and looking sharply at his uncle, is he telling a true story or a made up one. She will not listen to made up stories. She is not very old. She is in class three. But she is very intelligent. She can easily find truth and false in stories. The other day their house maid was telling her a story- ‘Once there lived a tiger. He was fatigued at the chill of January. ‘He went to a cloth shop and said, dear bro, give me a warm shawl, I’m suffering in the chill...’ Nitu rebuked the housemaid. She said firmly, ‘Haven’t I told you not to say made up stories? It’s a made up story.’ The maid said, ‘Which part is made up?’ ‘Can a tiger talk? Can it go out shopping?’ ‘What you say is true sis,... but....’ ‘Ok, you don’t have to tell me story.’ Nitu is very careful. None can trick her. Not even her uncle. Even if he tries, she will certainly find it out.’ Nitu...
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...Happiness and Giving. Family and friends. What is the true meaning of Christmas to you. Around the Christmas season the stores end up with bustling people and the rush of everyone wanting to buy the best gifts. Some people think more of themselves instead of others now days. A popular Christmas tale tells of an old, stingy, money loving man who only cares for himself and ends up ruining others Christmas Spirits by being an old grouch. On throughout Christmas night he soon finds out from 3 unusual visitors that he needs to change his ways. In the story, A Christmas Carol, we find out the true meaning of Christmas time. Each image or drawing depicted has a sad old man who is full of greed and hates to give especially on christmas. As is look...
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...Ghosts and spirits have haunted the world for centuries or so some believe. Christian theology talks of the transcending of certain ghostly imitations also known as demons or poltergeists. ( Wiebe,p.1). Although the origin of ghosts descends far back into time the belief of ghost varies from person to person. There are endless sightings, photographs, and unexplained mysteries. There has never been a confirmed announcement of the existence of ghosts but there has never been a declaration of no possibilities either. How is it known if they are real? There is no way of knowing for sure. It is a choice people must make for themselves to accept the reality or to accept the falsehood. The most important question is what convinces people of something that is not in confirmed as a fact in a science textbook? “The savage or barbarian has never learned to make that rigid distinction between imagination and reality, to enforce which is one of the main results of scientific education.” ( Wiebe, .1) Those that do believe in ghosts say that they are transparent materializations of a person who has died. Ghosts have been described as human in size and gossamer in their appearance. It is the essence of the soul that has decided to have an extended vacation on the planet. Reasons for this haunted apparition walking around without its mask varies. Fanatical experiences and brutal deaths can excrete enough energy to leave an imitation of the event behind. A bloodthirsty murder can leave an imprint...
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...Throughout the story “A Christmas Carol” there is a very apparent change in the main character Ebenezer Scrooge. He in some ways could be described as changing into a whole new, unrecognizable man. He is very cold hearted, hateful, greedy, and had no appreciation for Christmas at all when our story first starts. But after meeting three ghosts face to face, and getting a look at what could be, things really change him. ``Bah!'' and “Humbug!'' Were two very common words to hear coming from Ebenezer Scrooge at Christmas time. At the start of the story we see a man who is very greedy, and has a hate for Christmas and all who love it. We see Scrooge very rudely turn his nephew away, along with a man who wanted money. He even goes...
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...I liked the dvd better than the written version because it's easier to understand. It has pictures and sound and it pronounces the words for the reader so if they don't know how to pronounce it the dvd does. The dvd has lghtin in the background so when the ghost of christmas futer makes it lighining the reader sees how bright it acually is. The music in the background determans the mood. Both the dvd and the written version told the same story. Both start the story by stating that marley is dead. In both the dvd and the written version Marley helps scrooge by sending three ghost to haunt him. The ghost of christmas past, the ghost of christmas present, and the ghost of christmas future. The ghost of christmas past, present, and future all...
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...Wharton wrote in 1901 one of her first ghost stories: “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell”. In this story, Wharton unfolds with mastery different narrative techniques, extracted from her readings that allow her to “send a shiver down the readers' spine” (Zaugg 3). This story has clear influences from authors like Henry James or Edgar Allan Poe in the elements used to create an uncanny atmosphere in which the most obscure and hidden secrets of a married couple are the key for terror. It is not a supernatural story, despite the apparent presence of a ghost, it is a story about the difficulties and problems of an abusive marriage and “the vulnerability of the feminine self (…) through the trope of the literary double” (Murillo 770). Wharton's story is notable...
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...original story was a unique pleasure, as the classic story was reanimated through the author’s original intent of suspenseful repetitive wording, and descriptive language which, not being so long as to bore a reader, but also being articulated and well defined so as to construct scenes of frost covered brick alleyways in London, England, around Christmastime. The plot, which many are extremely well acquainted with, follows the miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who not only neglected to celebrate Christmas himself, but also expressed spitefulness to those who could not pay off investments. Ignoring his worker’s, Bob Cratchit, ill young child and poor family, more poverty across and beyond the city, and those who needed consolation, Scrooge was visited by the ghost of his late working partner, Jacob Marley, seven years to the day after his death, falling on Christmas Eve, and told to mend his ways, so as to avoid a miserable fate like his. Scrooge was consecutively visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past, (specifically of Scrooge’s), the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Future, where he saw how he had once had happiness, and of how there was much suffering in the world. This corresponds to the theme of the book, which is of how a moral transformation can occur when one sees others in need, or reflects on his wrongdoings in life with repentance. This internal drive to change for the better was demonstrated when Scrooge observed Bob Cratchit’s house with the Ghost of Christmas...
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...At the beginning of A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is mean, ill tempered, truculent. He’s mean because in the story Cratchit burst into applause. Scrooge’s response to this is “Another sound out of you, and you’ll keep your Christmas by losing your position.”(4) He’s ill tempered because in the story there are few kids singing God Rest Ye merry gentlemen. Scrooge’s response will seizing a ruler to this is “ get away from here , you! I didn’t ask to be bothered with that.”(6) He’s truculent because Fred his nephew said i fell in love. After that Scrooge repeated said “good afternoon.”(4) Scrooge changes from these traits through experience with the ghosts of the Past, Present, and Future. First the ghost of Christmas Past visits Scrooge...
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...favorite Christmas story and movie. I admit I had never put much thought into all of the ways A Christmas Carol relates to disability. To briefly summarize the plot of the movie, Ebenezer Scrooge is a crotchety old man who goes on a journey with the three ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. The three ghosts are on a mission to open the eyes of Mr. Scrooge to the life he has made for himself. Ebenezer Scrooge has made a life of money being the utmost importance. He has shut out his family and those close to him. After the visits from the ghosts, Scrooge realizes he must make a change in his life and takes part in the Christmas festivities of his friends and family. One of the first things I noticed about how A Christmas Carol related to disability was the misrepresentation of disabilities. The movie seemed to portray anyone who was not of wealth to be disabled....
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...died, but were auctioned for the Great Ormond Street Charitable Trust in 2004. The National Heritage Memorial Fund gave our museum the money to buy these wonderful pieces. 2. First book ‘A Christmas carol’: This is one of Dickens’ stories that a lot of people know about, when it was published in 1843 it sold more than 6000 copies in a week. The story itself is about Ebenezer...
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