Analyzing the longer works we’ve read and Young Goodman Brown I have picked up on a similarity between moments that each main character shares. Pickman, Prendick and Brown has had a moment before their descent into the darkly lit ruin, or when they are grimly received onto an island of horrors. Brown has a similar moment analyzing his guild through the forest “But the only thing about him, that could be fixed upon as remarkable, was his staff, which bore the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought, that it might almost be seen to twist and wriggle itself like a living serpent. This, of course, must have been an ocular deception, assisted by the uncertain light. ‘Come, Goodman Brown!’ cried his fellow-traveler, ‘this is a dull pace for the beginning of a journey…’ (P.g.19)” Here, we as the reader can get a glimpse of Brown’s fate at the end of his journey even if the main character cannot. We get a hint of the mystery that awaits him, and the sinister nature of his guild at the least, clearly articulated by the staff he carried which resembled a snake. I think that this passage is worth going back to and reviewing as it holds much symbolic value for each character as well as stylistic value to interpret for each author. If we take time to interpret these segments of common beginnings, we can also get our first look into the minds of our main characters. These moments are also important turns in the story so they may serve as a subject for analyzing plot as well.

“But we could not convince each other, or even ourselves, of anything definite. We had turned off all light as we stood still, and vaguely noticed that a trace of deeply filtered upper day kept the blackness from being absolute. Having automatically begun to move ahead, we guided ourselves by occasional flashes from our torch. The disturbed debris formed an impression we could not shake off, and the smell of gasoline grew stronger.” “The other odor ahead. Paradoxically, it was both a less frightful and more frightful odor.”

In the previous chapter, we found that they saw some evidences about the old ones, who lived there millions of years ago, and Dyer mentioned that he actually liked their cultures. Now we can see they are finding more stuff. They were smelling an odor but they didn’t know what was it. So, we can connect that with the previous topic that they will find something that was belong to the old ones. He mentioned it was less and more frightful, so I think they are little scared about what will happen next.

In both stories the narrator had a sense of fear of the places their were at, in chapter 9 of the   island of Dr. Moruea when Prendick left the enclosure to wonder the island everything went wrong when he saw the die rabbit and then saw the beast monster. After that was when he was fearing for his life and try to get back to the enclosure but he kept getting lost. when he got to the forest he started seeing things in the forest like beast people chanting a ritual. It didn’t look the same when it got darker he ended up seeing shadow like fingers and more. Then he was getting chase by one of the beast people and his imagination was going wild he didn’t know what going to happen to him when he finally got back to the enclosure he did not know what he had saw  was real or not and when he ask Montgomery he did not tell Prendick anything about the monster. It was the same way with at the mountain of madness on page 103 when the men couldn’t get in contact with Lake they left there camp to find out what had happened as the there were heading to the camp the narrator stated that he started to see mirages of thing. Their imagination was going wild as it got darker the more they were heading closer to the camp the more the mirages grew. once they got to the camp they saw all the men dead and the dogs too and also the sleds gone. The didn’t know what to say and they keep all the crazy details to themselves and didn’t tell the Arkham. Also Danforth saw something but didn’t tell anyone because he didn’t know what he saw was real or not. So you can see the connection of both stories because the narrator were try to enjoy themselves at the place of the unknown, Prendick was try to not be afraid of the island and accepted it because he found the island to be beautiful and amazing something he never seen before but when he saw those things that I previously stated he was afraid of being on the island and wanted to leave. At mountain of madness the men were so proud and happy of there great discovery in the Arctic but once they saw what happened and they couldn’t find out how they this happened  to their men they just wanted to get out.

A major connection that I see between The Island of Dr.Moreau and At the Mountains of Madness, is the perspective of the characters that are narrating the story. In The Island of Dr.Moreau, all the information is being given to the reader through the perspective of Prendick. By being told how Prendick feels about what is occurring in the novel such as the beast men and the interactions with Dr.Moreau, the reader receives a very biased perspective. However Prendick chooses to describe things is the way that we are forced to accept it. In At the mountains of Madness, the perspective is drastically different. Even though this is also a story that is being narrated in hindsight by the main character, we get a different experience than we did with Prendick. I believe the reason for this is the different characteristics of both Prendick and Dyer. In At the mountains of Madness, Dyer is a geologist and gives the reader a scientific perspective on what he has uncovered on his expedition. A lot of the information that is given by Dyer is not opinionated. By doing this, I think it leaves more things up to the perception of the reader.

There is particular method of introducing the setting that both authors have used in order to create a heightened sense of suspense. What I mean is that both authors mention the particular setting that story will take place in as early as the tittle of the work, the island and the mountains; yet the story never begins there. In The Island of Dr. Moreau we have Prendick starting on a life raft, then rescued and on a boat, and later he reaches the island. In At the Mountains of Madness Dyer takes even longer to reach the mountains than Prendick.  This is deliberate; by mentioning the setting early and keeping it mysterious until later on it creates a sense of suspense and tension until we finally get a chance to glimpse them.

We know nothing of the island until Prendick finally decides to explore it and, at least for me, that part of the story was one of the most gripping. We finally get to see this island and the mysteries that it hold, and maybe even find out why Prendick decided to keep his adventures there hidden.

The same applies to the mountains; we don’t really know why Dyer keeps what he saw there a secret and why he sees them as maddening, and that’s what keeps us going through his almost tedious description of the event preceding that.

In both cases, by mentioning the setting early, but waiting before we get a real glimpse of it, the author create a great sense of suspense that just keeps us turning those pages.