Edgar Allan Poe s Fall Of The House Of Usher And Joyce...

There is a man and a woman. The two are eating lunch. One begins to take a bite and the other immediately jumps from the table. Joan screams as an ax flies across the room. Without knowing that Joan is a teenage girl full of raging hormones on her first date with Drake at the premiere of the new horror movie, then the image in everyone s mind after reading the first few lines might have been quite bothersome. As emphasized with the few sentences prior, setting is one of the most important components of a story. In both Edgar Allan Poe’s Fall of the House of Usher and Joyce Carol Oates’ Where is Here? it is quite clear what the importance of setting does to a story and how it impacts all of literature. Within both Fall of the House of Usher and Where is Here? by Poe and Oates, the importance of setting is displayed. One of the ways this is done, is by using such descriptive writings. The detailed sections allow us to imagine what is actually happening, where it is going on, and what the surroundings are suggesting. If the story didn’t have any setting to tell us what certain things look like then we might miss an important part of the story, like the horror movie concept. One of the statements that educators like to use a lot is that you should never make a decision without knowing all of the facts first. The same is true with stories, and one of those important facts, is the setting. By line eight of Where is Here? by Oates, she writes, â€Å"He had not seen the house sinceShow MoreRelatedThe Fall Of The House Of Usher, And Where Is Here?1219 Words   |  5 PagesClear Understanding within the Setting An analytical essay of â€Å"The Fall of the House of Usher,† and â€Å"Where is Here?† Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else... Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, what happened? Who s here? Who s coming?† Eudora Welty stated this, emphasizing the importance setting has on a story. Authors of all kinds, young and old, famous and not famous, boy or girl—theyRead MoreTransformation Of The Novel The Ghost By Teal Swan920 Words   |  4 Pagessupernatural transformation is the ghost in House Taken Over. In the House Taken Over the ghosts take over the whole back of the house. In this story the narrator says â€Å" I had to shut the door to the back passage, they ve taken over the back part ( I had to shut the door...â€Å"Cortazar† pg. 40).† This shows transformation because before they realized the house was haunted everything was normal and it transformed into them not being able to go to the back part of their house. Another kind o f transformation is