Author: Sarker

The story is called “The Enormous Radio” by John Cheever. It depicts a gothic term because of the hidden messages the radio is giving throughout the story. As the story invests around the married couple of Jim and Irene Westcott and their family but shows their point of views from the narrator in a third person view. The amount of suspense, tension, and guilt between the couple which this radio has brought to their point of view. The gothic element that is being used in this story would be the suspense of secrets that the wife has realized into their marriage. She has the feeling of guilt which has been brought up to her when the radio depicts the neighbors argument which gives the realization and connection of her own marriage. Irene has been suppressing her own emotions, guilt and secrets which has created a drift into her own marriage. The radio symbolizes a gothic element of suspense and mysterious tone in the story. The story is not gothic literature because there is no villain or any type of main issue or the characters do not seem suspicious to me while I was reading this story. The characters do not give any vibe of being the villains or the bad guys in this story, they seem like a regular couple. The setting does not take place in any abandoned or mysterious or scary place; it seems like a normal regular place. It does not give any scary or spooky vibes in this story. But the story does give a hidden message and the radio has been symbolized as it gives us an intake of the secrets behind the couple and how they have been hiding things from each other. The realization hits when the radio gives the main characters a whip of what is being going on between them. 

-SarkerNoha

CoffeHouse #3

The 5 main important ideas in this chapter was: The background info on how to present (Page 4). The way to describe a situation to represent a gothic genre demonstration (Page 5). Adding supernatural events (Page 6). Talking about a mysterious setting (Page 7). Creating a mystery suspense atmosphere (Page 4).

-SarkerNoha

Coffeehouse #2

Out of the 6 stories we have read so far, my favorite would be “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe. When I first heard of the title it just sounded so interesting to me. I did not know it would be the mysterious and murder type of story but the plot and suspense was so unique. From all the 6 stories I have read for this class, this story was the one I found most interesting to me. The way that Edgar Allan Poe went and displayed the man’s problem with alcohol which led him into murdering his wife and his cats. From the title, honestly I did not know and think that this story would be a murder story. I thought it would be symbolizing a black cat from the reference from its title. The way the man character was portrayed in the story intrigued me and how at the end the cops came to check for proof or evidence in his basement, but the man played along with the cops to help them find evidence against him. It just seemed so weird to me, I mean the way this character was insisting to find evidence against himself to the cops just was surprising to me. 

SarkerNoha