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Rachel’s Final Essay

December 13, 2020 / Rachel / 0 Comments

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“The Haunting of Hill House”

In the story of, “The Haunting of Hill House,” by Shirley Jackson, there were a few examples of gothic concepts that we have explored during class. The gothic terms that I had examine in the novel were, haunting, Todorov’s definition of uncanny, and Vidler’s idea of architectural uncanny. There are a few scenes from the novel that shows the examples of gothic terms and in some of the scenes in the novel, it does show great examples of Anthony Vidler’s idea of architectural uncanny, Todorov’s definition of fantastic and the gothic term is “haunting”, and in the Hill house it does inform the plot or the character’s emotions or decisions.

In chapter 2, in “The Haunting of Hill House,” there was one scene when Eleanor enters the gate and caught a glimpse of the Hill house as she droves by. The architecture of the Hill house definitely gives her the unwelcome feeling that she wanted to turn back to the gate and leave. For example in the text it states, “I should have turned back at the gate, Eleanor thought. The house had caught her with an atavistic turn in the pit of the stomach, and she looked along the lines of its roofs, fruitlessly endeavoring to locate the badness, whatever dwelt there; her hands turned nervously cold so that she fumbled, trying to take out a cigarette, and beyond everything else she was afraid, listening to the sick voice inside her which whispered, Get away from here, get away. ” [p.14] It does show an example of Vidler’s idea of architectural uncanny, because in his definition, it says the architectural uncanny is represented by a feeling of anxiety in which there is a slippage and lack of clarity between what is homely and what is unhomely, and Eleanor was scared to the point her hands turns nervously cold and it does give her the feeling of anxiety just by looking at the lines of the roofs. In chapter 4, in the “The Haunting of Hill House,” there is one major scenes that shows an example of Anthony Vidler’s idea of architectural uncanny. In one particular scene, Dr. Montague, Eleanor, Luke and Theodora from the novel, went out to explore the Hill house and come across multiple architecture structure or space and Eleanor was one of them that feels uncomfortable as she came across the structure of the library in the tower. For example in one of the quotes it says, “Then the doctor said, “Nowhere is something none of you anticipated,” and he opened a small door tucked in beside the tall front door and stood back, smiling. “The library,” he said. “In the tower.” “I can’t go in there,” Eleanor said, surprising herself, but she could not. She backed away, overwhelmed with the cold air of mold and earth which rushed at her.” [p.48] In this scene, it shows Anthony Vidler’s idea of an architectural uncanny, because the library in the tower gives Eleanor the feeling of overwhelmed and instead of feeling calm and feeling like home, she was too scared and refuse to even go in there.

In chapter 5, Theodora experience something very shocking when she was staying over at the Hill house and that experience was when she saw her clothes all torn and her room and wardrobe were painted. The gothic term is haunting, because her room was painted in red and it’s either red paint or blood, and it’s something Eleanor, Luke and Dr. Montague wouldn’t do to Theodora. It must be something or a ghost trying to haunt the house to get Eleanor’s attention or it’s trying to communicate with Eleanor. In the novel text it says, “It’s Theo,” she said as they came to the top of the stairs. “She’s hysterical. Someone—something—has gotten red paint in her room, and she’s crying over her clothes.” Now I could not have put it more fairly than that, she thought, turning to follow them. Could I have put it more fairly than that? she asked herself, and found that she was smiling “Theodora was still sobbing wildly in her room and kicking at the wardrobe door, in a tantrum that might have been laughable if she had not been holding her yellow shirt, matted and stained; her other clothes had been torn from the hangers and lay trampled and disordered on the wardrobe floor, all of them smeared and reddened. “What is it?” Luke asked the doctor, and the doctor, shaking his head, said, “I would swear that it was blood, and yet to get so much blood one would almost have to…” and then was abruptly quiet. [p. 10 of Chapter 5]

In the last page of Chapter 9, in the ending scene of the novel, the last example of a gothic term, was Todorov’s definition of fantastic, and her definition of fantastic was both natural and supernatural, meaning that it’s both. Fantastic means it’s something that can actually happen that is natural, and it also can be supernatural and that is what Eleanor was going through at the end of the scene. She was basically possessed by the house, and she was being told by the house that she can’t leave and that she must stay, but Dr. Montague, Theodora, and Luke beg her to leave and let her drive away and that gave her the opportunity to sped up her car without stopping and crash herself into an oak tree killing herself, but at the very end she said why didn’t they stop me, which means she was being possessed and she didn’t know what she was doing. For example, in this quote it states, ” With what she perceived as quick cleverness she pressed her foot down hard on the accelerator; they can’t run fast enough to catch me this time, she thought, but by now they must be beginning to realize; I wonder who notices first? Luke, almost certainly. I can hear them calling now, she thought, and the little footsteps running through Hill House and the soft sound of the hills pressing closer. I am really doing it, she thought, turning the wheel to send the car directly at the great tree at the curve of the driveway, I am really doing it, I am doing this all by myself, now, at last; this is me, I am really really really doing it by myself. In the unending, crashing second before the car hurled into the tree she thought clearly, Why am I doing this? Why am I doing this? Why don’t they stop me?”[Last pg. of Chapter 9]

This concludes, that in the story, ” The Haunting of Hill House,” by Shirley Jackson, shows a few examples of gothic concepts that we learned in class. In the novel, I have examine these gothic concepts from some scenes and the gothic concepts in certain scenes were, haunting, Todorov’s definition of uncanny, and Vidler’s idea of architectural uncanny. In the some major scenes it shows a great example of Anthony Vidler’s idea of architectural uncanny, Todorov’s definition of fantastic and the gothic term the which is the word “haunting”. The actions that the characters had made; happens when their emotions and decision were occurred when staying over at the Hill house.

MLA Citation: Jackson , Shirley. “The Haunting of Hill House”. 1959.

Rachel’s Gothic Space

December 6, 2020 / Rachel / 0 Comments

The chess board and bench in the night time

The school yard and the park in the night, are next to each other and I chose these particular space because, it definitely does fall into a category of a gothic space with many characteristic. It’s a definition of Todorov’s uncanny, which is closet to reality and it is haunting just by being around there, this spaces gives me the chills and I can see shadows of the trees and the light poles that gives me the anxiety just walking there by myself alone, when there’s hardly anyone around the park and the school yard. In the first picture, one of the characteristic that the park gives for example was the dark and gloomy sky when the clouds flow by, and the trees with no leaves and with a blurry vision it’s hard to see clear in the night time. In Todorov’s uncanny it stated that if a reader “decides that the laws of reality are being upheld and permit an explanation of the phenomena described, we say that the work belongs to another genre: the uncanny.” When walking alone in the night time by park, and trees that have no leaves, when the clouds are gray and gloomy, there was also a haunting and eerie noise that went pass me that will count as the uncanny. This will also include the second picture at the chess board area, with no one around and items on the table was left deserted; like it was abandon and the rusty benches with old paint marks and scratches will explain how old the benches were.

In the third picture, it also fall under another definition of uncanny, which was Sigmund Freud’s definition of uncanny his definition of the uncanny is if it is repressed, into anxiety, then among instances of frightening things there must be one class in which the frightening element can be shown to be something repressed which recurs and this class of frightening things would then constitute the uncanny. I felt the anxiety and fear just walking by the park and the school yard. At the school yard there are some characteristic that makes it gothic space, with the falling leaves from not only the trees but including the bushes and the prickly branches on the trees and bushes and the branches was hanging from trees like there’s a hand.

One of the gothic stories that help me understand a gothic space was a graphic novel that we read called ” The Iron Tonic, 1969,” by Edward Gorey. In each page of a graphic novel there’s characteristic of a gothic spaces whether it’s in the forest or if it’s the outside of an old grey hotel, it shows characteristic like of an gothic architecture and a gothic space. There are some pages from that graphic novel that have similarities as the park and the school yard, and it is the bushes and trees with no leaves and there is also a scene where it’s gloomy and dark at night and a group of people huddling together looking lost. What I’ve also learned about investigating an actual gothic space or place is that anything can be gothic when there’s gothic characteristics, like a gothic architecture, haunted areas, rusty and old buildings, parks, or abandon places is a definition of a gothic space. And just being in the park and the school yard gives me anxiety and fear just walking pass it or inside the park area.

November 15, 2020 / Rachel / 0 Comments

For the Manhattan Bridge, I pick this specifically because some parts of the Structure does show Vidler’s Uncanny of architecture. At the side of the Manhattan Bridge, it’s gothic because it has pointy arches and that does show an example of a gothic architecture. As for the last two pictures but different angles of the Trinity church that is located at 89 Broadway, New York, there are many characteristic that shows that this church is a gothic architecture. For example, there are a lot of curving windows, pointy arches, and carvings. There are also tracery and spiral ornate which is also part of a gothic characteristic of an architecture. The gothic church was build in 1839–1846 by Richard Upjohn and it is a gothic revival.

Rachel’s Weekly Goth

November 8, 2020 / Rachel / 0 Comments

In this short ending clip from the movie shows gothic, terror and horror and this movie is called ” The Possession Of Hannah Grace,” directed by Diederik Van Rooijen. After spending a period in rehab, the former police officer Megan Reed accepts the job offered by her friend Lisa Roberts to work in the graveyard shift in a hospital morgue. Megan is recovering from a stress caused by a situation where her partner died. Megan receives the corpse of a young woman named Hannah Grace and later a man tries to burn the body in the incinerator, who was known to be Hannah Grace’s father, but Megan and the security team hold and arrest the man. Soon Megan has the weird sensation that Hannah Grace is recovering from her injuries but her friend Lisa believes she is still using drugs and does not believe in her. But soon she realizes that there is something evil in the cadaver. But then Megan soon realized that Hannah Grace was possessed by a demon, who goes on a killing spree, killing multiple workers in the hospital, including Lisa Robert. This leave Megan faced her fears and handle the demon by herself, so she dragged the corpse that she shot multiple times and burn it for good. This definitely shows the facial expression of terror, the gruesome death of horror and it’s gothic.

Midterm Essay

October 25, 2020 / Rachel / 0 Comments

Rachel Xie

Gothic Literature 3407

“ Mr. Hyde/Invisible Man/Dr. Jekyll/Blond Hair Man “

In “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” by Robert Louis Stevenson and the “Invisible Man”, by Ralph Ellison, we can see that there are many differences and similarity traits between each characters. Each characters were portrayed differently but they also have some similarities, and one of the character is Mr. Hyde, he was created by Dr. Jekyll when he was experimenting and now there’s two different character in one body. In the story, of the “Invisible Man”, his was just a normal human being until the unexpected night occurred that changed him. Throughout the story there are horror, spirit of perverseness, gothic actions, uncanny, coming from each character.

“The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, Mr. Hyde was described as small, very plainly dressed, pale, deformed and was evil looking. There wasn’t much description about Mr. Hyde appearance, but it was described enough about Mr. Hyde’s personality and that he was pure evil and cruel. During the story, it shows how violent and cruel Mr. Hyde can be. Dr. Jekyll has the opposite character trait of Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll was a scientist, who is wealthy and an intelligent man who had a butler named, Poole. The narrator from the “Prologue to the Invisible Man”, described himself as a man with substance of flesh and bone, meaning he is a real human being, but people simply refuse to see him, like he doesn’t exist. He feels like a bodiless head in the circus like he was surrounded by the mirror of hard, distorting glass. Although not much was described about his appearance but he does see himself as a great American tradition of tinkers.

In the story of, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” one of the gothic term describing Mr. Hyde, is spirit of perverseness, with Mr. Hyde’s personality traits he is capable of doing things without caring about the consequences. He was evil, as he tramped over a little girl’s body as she screamed in horror and he murdered a man named, Sir Danvers Carew. That shows Mr. Hyde’s actions of being irrational, acting chaotic, going against prohibitions, and being sacrilegious. According to the text, “All at once, I saw two figures: one a little man who was stumping along eastward at a good walk, and the other a girl of maybe eight or ten who was running as hard as she was able down a cross street. Well, sir, the two ran into one another naturally enough at the corner; and then came the horrible part of the thing; for the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground.”[1] For the “Invisible man,” one of the gothic term is uncanny, it was based on the narrator, who was telling his story. The narrator does show that with his existence, he was being insulted or we can say treated differently, and because of how he was treated, he uses violence to suppress his anger. For example, in the text of the story, he said “One night I accidentally bumped into a man, and perhaps because of the near darkness he saw me and called me an insulting name. I sprang at him, seized his coat lapels and demanded that he apologize. He was a tall blond man, and as my face came close to his he looked insolently out of his blue eyes and cursed me, his breath hot in my face as he struggled. I pulled his chin down sharp upon the crown of my head, butting him as I had seen the West Indians do, and I felt his flesh tear and the blood gush out, and I yelled, “Apologize! Apologize!” But he continued to curse and struggle, and I butted him again and again until he went down heavily, on his knees, profusely bleeding. I kicked him repeatedly, in a frenzy because he still uttered insults though his lips were frothy with blood.” [2] The man with blond hair and blue eyes, must have said something very insulting that the narrator would react the way he did, but in the end the narrator did feel bad for beating him up, but what would the insulting words be?.

The similarity between Mr. Hyde and the Invisible Man was their actions of violence. This is an example of horror, they leave their victims screaming in pain and unable to move with fear. In the text of, the “Invisible man” the narrator said, ” He lay there, moaning on the asphalt; a man almost killed by a phantom.”[2] The difference between Mr. Hyde and Invisible Man was that Mr. Hyde doesn’t feel remorse and as for the Invisible man, he does feel bad, in the text of the story he says, ” It unnerved me. I was both disgusted and ashamed.” [2] . And another differences between Mr. Hyde and the Invisible Man was that Mr. Hyde did murder someone, and the Invisible Man was prepared to slit his throat, but left the blond man with blood and bruises lying on the floor moaning in pain. Dr. Jekyll was different from Mr. Hyde and most certainly was different from the narrator of the ” Invisible Man”, he was a very well known scientist and he redeemed himself and Mr. Hyde in the end, by confessing everything. According to the end of the text, ” God knows; I am careless; this is my true hour of death, and what is to follow concerns another than myself. Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.”[10]

This concludes, in the story, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” by Robert Louis Stevenson and the “Invisible Man”, by Ralph Ellison, we can see that there are many differences and similarity trait that are shown between each characters. Each characters were portrayed differently and they do have some of their similarities and one of the character is Mr. Hyde, he was created by Dr. Jekyll due to an experiment and now there’s two different character in one body. In the story, of the “Invisible Man”, his was just a normal human being until the unexpected night occurred that changed him. Throughout the story there are horror, spirit of perverseness, gothic actions, uncanny, coming from each character.

Coffeehouse #4 Midterm Essay Draft

October 18, 2020 / Rachel / 1 Comment

Rachel Xie

“ The comparison of Mr. Hyde, Invisible Man, Goodman Brown and Dr. Lanyon”

The comparison of Mr. Hyde, Invisible Man, Goodman Brown and Dr. Lanyon, have their differences and similarities. The gothic terms for each characters, are based on what happened to them in the story, and the gothic term for Mr. Hyde would be his gothic actions, the second gothic term for the Invisible Man would be the spirit of perverseness. The other two characters that have their similarities and differences would be Dr. Lanyon and Goodman Brown, and the gothic terms for Lanyon would be the uncanny and the other gothic term for Goodman Brown would be the fantastic. Mr. Hyde, Invisible Man, Goodman Brown and Dr. Lanyon have a story and a personality trait of their own, and they show examples of the gothic limits, whether it’s violence, death, and a return to normalcy, they each have their ways of gothic limits.

Mr. Hyde from the story of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, was described as small, very plainly dressed, pale, deformed and was evil looking. There wasn’t much description about Mr. Hyde appearance, but it was described enough about Mr. Hyde’s personality and that he was pure evil and cruel. The narrator from the “Prologue to the Invisible Man”, described himself as a man with substance of flesh and bone, meaning he is a real human being, but people simply refuse to see him as one. He feels like a bodiless head in the circus like he was surrounded by the mirror of hard, distorting glass. Although not much was described about his appearance but he does see himself as a great American tradition of tinkers. As for Dr. Lanyon, another well mention character in the story of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, he was described as hearty, dapper, healthy, with white hair and a well manner man. Dr. Lanyon was a close friend to Mr. Utterson, the Lawyer and to Dr. Jekyll. The last character to mention was Young Goodman Brown, he was married to his wife, Faith, three months ago and he was Christian and a good man in the story.

The gothic terms of the story of Mr. Hyde is gothic actions, with Mr. Hyde’s personality he is capable of doing so. Mr. Hyde was pure evil, as he tramped over a little girl’s body as she screamed and he murder one of Mr. Utterson’s client which was, Sir Danvers Carew. That shows Mr. Hyde’s actions of being irrational, acting chaotic, going against prohibitions, and being sacrilegious. For the invisible man, one of the gothic term would be the spirit of perverseness, it was based on the narrator describing his story, the Invisible Man show spirit of perverseness, knowing it would lead him to trouble, yet he still continued with his violent actions. For example, in the text of the story, he said “But he continued to curse and struggle, and I butted him again and again until he went down heavily, on his knees, profusely bleeding. I kicked him repeatedly, in a frenzy because he still uttered insults though his lips were frothy with blood.” The gothic term for Dr. Lanyon would be the uncanny, although Dr. Lanyon’s death was unexpected, it still connect his death to Dr. Jekyll, his cause of death was being shocked to death which can be possible. The action of Dr. Lanyon, does fall under the definition of Todorov’s three terms. The final gothic term for Goodman Brown is fantastic, it wasn’t clear whether what Goodman Brown was witnessing devil is real or if it was just a dream. Young Goodman Brown, he was on his was way to travel and he told his wife, Faith, to say her prayers as he leaves. When Young Goodman Brown, was on the road he ran into a man who is dressed in regular clothes and the man looks normal, except for the walking staff. The man tries to offer the staff for him to walk faster, but Goodman Brown refuses. As Goodman Brown continues to walk he witness a witch who admitted that she was the devil and then he saw what looks to be his wife, Faith, and he told her to look up heaven and resist the devil. As he return to the Salem Village, he has changed thinking that everyone in the village was the devil, he didn’t look at his wife or other people the same way. This shows that the action does fall under the definition of Todorov’s three terms as well, which the term was fantastic.

The similarity between Mr. Hyde and the Invisible Man was their actions of violence. They leave their victims screaming in pain and unable to move. For example, he said ” Oh! yes, I kicked him! And in my outrage I got out my knife and prepared to slit his throat, right there beneath the lamplight in the deserted street, holding him by the collar with one hand, and opening the knife with my teeth– when it occurred to me that the man had not seen me, actually; that he was far as he knew, was in the midst of a walking nightmare! And I stopped my blade, slicing the air as I pushed him away, letting him fall back to the street.” The example for Mr. Hyde was he trampled over a little girl’s body. Mr. Enfield said, “All at once I saw two figures: one a little man who was stumping along eastward at a good walk, and the other girl of maybe eight or ten who was running as hard as she was able down a cross street. Well sir, the two ran into one another naturally enough at the corner; and then came the horrible part of the thing; for the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground.” Another similarity was Mr. Hyde and the Invisible Man stared at a person, for example in the text, the Invisible Man said “I stared at him hard as the lights of a car stabbed through the darkness.” Mr. Hyde also stared straight at Mr. Enfield after trampling over a little girl’s body, in the text, Mr. Enfield said “He was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running.” Another similarity between Mr. Hyde and Invisible Man was they don’t feel remorse when it comes to violence. As a matter of fact, the Invisible man began to laugh after he left the man lying on the ground covered in blood, and he laughed so hard that he was about to rupture himself. The only differences between Mr. Hyde and the Invisible Man was that Mr. Hyde had murder someone, but the Invisible Man hasn’t kill anyone yet. The next two character pairs that have their similarities and differences was Dr. Lanyon and Goodman Brown. One of the similarity between them was that they don’t see the people who was once closed to them the same anymore. When Goodman Brown came back to Salem Village after traveling from the road, he never look at his wife and people in the village the same. In the text it said, ” But Goodman Brown looked sternly and sadly into her face, and passed on without a greeting.” He act distant towards her after his long journey to the roads and what he witness was the devil. As for Dr. Lanyon, he was having a discussion with Mr. Utterson when he was ill and he doesn’t want to talk about Dr. Jekyll anymore. Mr. Utterson, Dr. Lanyon and Dr. Jekyll had a small party on January 8th, until Mr. Utterson went back to the doctor’s place on the 12th, 14th and the 15th, but the door was shut on him, so he went to see Dr. Lanyon. Dr. Lanyon said, “I wish to see or hear no more of Dr. Jekyll,” he said in a loud, unsteady voice. “I am quite done with that person; and I beg that you will spare me any allusion to one whom I regard as dead.” This shows that Dr. Lanyon doesn’t see Dr. Jekyll the same anymore or even want to see him. The differences between Dr. Lanyon and Goodman Brown, was that Dr. Lanyon had died due to being scared to death, and Goodman Brown was still alive but he sees his wife, the minister and everyone else in the village as a devil. As for personality wise, Goodman Brown was Christian and he was a good man to his wife, Faith and as for Dr. Lanyon, he was a doctor and very different from Dr. Jekyll.

This conclude that, comparing Mr. Hyde, Invisible Man, Goodman Brown and Dr. Lanyon, have had their differences and similarities. Gothic terms for each characters, describing them in story, and the gothic term for Mr. Hyde would be his gothic actions, and the gothic term for the Invisible Man would be the spirit of perverseness. Another two character that have their similarity and difference would be Dr. Lanyon and Goodman Brown, and the gothic terms for Lanyon would be the uncanny and the other gothic term for Goodman Brown would be the fantastic. Mr. Hyde, Invisible Man, Goodman Brown and Dr. Lanyon have their own story to show an example of the gothic limits, whether it’s violence, death, and a return to normalcy, they each have their ways of gothic limits.

Rachel’s Coffeehouse #3

September 28, 2020 / Rachel / 0 Comments

The character that was redeemed was Dr. Jekyll, and the redemption is about his other dark side that had made a multiple sins. Dr. Jekyll was the one redeeming it, by writing a letter to Mr. Utterson and confesses everything that has been happened between him and Edward Hyde. Dr. Jekyll wrote it in the letter himself, how he was testing an experiment and how he added the last ingredient which was salt, and how he drank it and see whether he will die or not; will all depend on his experiment. As he started to developed fever, his face become pale and he began to have nausea, and all of the sudden there was no mirror in his laboratory to see what was happening to him. But he knows that he went through changes, and those changes was that he felt young, short, and happy, but also wicked inside him. Until finally, Dr. Jekyll manage to see an appearance in his room and it was indeed Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll turned into Mr. Hyde, and over changes of two complete different person changing back and forth Dr. Jekyll has no clue to what can happen when he black out and Mr. Hyde took over his body. Mr. Hyde has committed many sins of killing, and without feeling remorse nor guilt, Mr. Hyde has slowly become stronger over the body, and when Jekyll transform back he started to grow weaker, and he finally realizes that Mr. Hyde has done, and he admit that he was also afraid of his dark side and what could happen next. So Dr. Jekyll chose to redeem himself, knowing that Mr. Hyde might rip the letter that he was going to send to Utterson, so he choose leave the letter where Mr. Utterson can find it.

Rachel-Gothic Coffeehouse Post #2

September 20, 2020 / Rachel / 1 Comment

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Utterson is talking about Mr. Hyde, that’s the “him” in bold, they were referring to. It’s ironic because Dr. Jekyll plead Utterson for his sake, leaving Utterson to sigh and willingly to promise him to bring justice for Mr. Hyde, even though Mr. Utterson , said it himself that he doesn’t like Mr. Hyde. And Mr. Utterson most definitely doesn’t even want to pretend to like Hyde; Dr. Jekyll said so himself that he has full trust in Utterson because Utterson did say to Jekyll that he’ll get him out of the situation he is dealing with, he wanted Utterson to help Hyde when needed, when Jekyll is going to be taken away and no longer be there. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde must be very close towards each other, or Jekyll wouldn’t have defended Hyde and plead Utterson for help. Dr. Jekyll knows that Mr. Hyde can be rude sometimes but he also knows something about Mr. Hyde, and Mr. Utterson, the lawyer seems discover something about Mr. Hyde, and wanted to talk to Jekyll about it, but Jekyll avoided the conversation. He started to talk about how he is in a strange position, which leads to Utterson telling Jekyll that he can be trusted and that he can help Jekyll get out of whatever position is in. That explains why Dr. Jekyll asked Mr. Utterson to do him a favor regarding about do rights and also helping Mr. Hyde.

Rachel’s Coffeehouse Post

September 8, 2020 / Rachel / 0 Comments

There was nothing that I did this summer was fun, because of the pandemic that has been going on. I’ve been staying home mostly to be safe during the pandemic and I only go out with my parents to only go grocery shopping. So there’s nothing fun that I did outside, other than staying home and have my eyes glue to the screen of my computer the whole 5 months of pandemic. The only thing that make me feel good and happy this summer was my friends, I’ve been going through tough times during the summer and I’ve been having personal life issues that I’m too scared to say and go through alone and my friends are the one who cheered me up and make me feel more confident about myself and comfort me.

From the three stories I have read so far, my favorite would have to be “The Lottery”. The reason why I choose ” The Lottery”, was because it took an unexpected turn and it was shocking and interesting at the same time. When I read the story, I was thinking ” this isn’t gothic at all”, to me; I thought it was a normal story until, I read up to the ending, I realized everything took a turn and I was taken by surprised. I like how the narrator add a little surprise to the ending and how narrator manipulated the story by adding a beautiful sunny day in the beginning of the story and having the readers or audiences thinking that it’s just a normal story until they read to the end. I think it’s very creative and in the story, it also hinted that some characters think the lottery isn’t a good idea, and that they wanted to quit the lottery, there’s a little hint in the story that allows the reader to guess what’s going to happen, which I find it interesting. In the story ” The Lottery”, they didn’t explain, the consequences of some people; who refuse to do the lottery tradition or the reason why they must do the tradition in the first place or they could just leave it alone. It makes me question about the story over and over again, about the real reason why they did it, or what would happen if they didn’t do the tradition, and it was very interesting to me as well.

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