Journal #25 Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher...The MOVIE!!

QUOTE:

“I started, and, for a moment, paused; for it appeared to me…there came, indistinctly, to my ears, what might have been, in its exact similarity of character, the echo…which Sir Launcelot had so particularly described” (Poe 1563).


SUMMARY:

The narrator is reading a book to Usher, but his mind might be playing tricks on him. He thinks that he is actually hearing the story happen somewhere in the mansion.


RESPONSE:

This part of The Fall of the House of Usher seems the most like a spooky ghost story to me. I know that when I’m at my house alone at night, I always hear random crashes out in my backyard, or creaks in the walls. If the narrator of Poe’s story is in a creepy old mansion that has dead bodies buried in its walls, then I can’t even imagine what it must be like to spend the night there!

I’m also taking English 46a, which is Old/Middle English, so I’ve been reading about Arthurian Tales. Finally I actually feel like I have a chance of, at least, having some sort of knowledge about one of the books the narrator is talking about! All I know is that each of the books Poe has written about in this story sound way out of my league. (And remember, I was reading this out loud to my parents. I know I was murdering the titles of the books.)

Back to my movie idea, however, I think this part of the story could actually be really creepy. Some spooky animation graphics could make the narrator’s fears come alive on screen, and could really be frightening for the viewers too! Maybe I’m just too much of a movie lover. However, I’ve really enjoyed almost all of our reading so far, and I’m glad that literature can create my own movie inside my own crazy head.