Symbolism In P. D. Cacek's The Grave

Death stalks around every corner, in cruel and unusual ways. People tend to be drawn to folk tales of deadly creatures. Origins of stories are often exaggerated, and not completely true. For example, when people look back at the story ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre,’ people think that it originates from Texas, but the story actually originated in Massachusetts. While some have heard of Edward Gein, the Black Dahlia and John Wayne Gacy, people do not realize that many scary stories are inspired by actual killers or their victims.

Prior to her death there were forshadowing events like wanting her sheets uncleaned, where in the pillow lived a insect, that ate her life away. This piece of liturature definatly address soctiey, such as, the draining of mentaliy whitch sucks woman into

Introduction: Patrick Ness’ gothic tale, A Monster Calls, is an ominous story about a 13 year old boy in England named Conor O’ Malley. He faces multiple obstacles such as his mum having cancer, him having to deal with constant bullying at school, and alongside all these challenges, he also has to deal with being the man of the house, with his father not being present, and being in America with another family. Alongside this, he has also been struggling with having nightmares, at 12:07, where the monster visits him. Ness uses a variety of literary techniques to create a strobing effect on readers, ranging from Foreshadowing, Anthropomorphism, Imagery The Author, Patrick Ness, incorporates multiple literary elements and devices to create suspense and fear, with the first one being Anthropomorphism. This can be proven by the Yew Tree being present throughout the whole story with multiple examples such as the first appearance in his first dream on pg (19) and also when the monster is telling Conor the three tales, and basically throughout the whole book.

Monsters come in many forms. Monsters could be what people sees as villains in movies, scary Halloween pictures or simply the “creatures of the night. The word “monster” became a way of explaining the seemingly inexplicable. People create and ascribe meaning to monsters, endowing them with characteristics derived from their most deep-seated fears and taboos. In David Mill’s story, Derealization, the monster motif is used to encompass a bigger idea that the monsters that the readers are afraid are the ones that actually lies within their true

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In the short coming of age story “The Grave” by Katherine Anne Porter, the author uses symbolism to show that the factor of fear plays an important part in maturity and growing up. In the beginning of the story, Miranda and Paul seem like normal kids, adventurous and almost fearless. “They peered into the pits all shaped alike with such purposeful accuracy, and looking at each other with pleased adventurous eyes, they said in solemn tones: ‘These were graves!’”(Porter) They have no problem digging and playing in empty graves. After they had gotten bored tearing up empty graves, they thought it might be fun to go and shoot some things.

In “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,” Porter uses multiple allusions to three of Emily Dickinson’s poems to show the change from total, unwavering Christian faith, to the absence of Jesus as Granny dies. In the story, Porter describes Granny stepping into a cart, whose driver Granny knew by his hands, and whose face she did not have to see, because she “knew without seeing” (Porter). This scene is almost identical to the scene in Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for death-.” This allusion aids in conveying the Christian idea of death as Granny has come to accept it: a tranquil figure, Death, calmly and peacefully carries one’s soul to an eternity where centuries feel like days.

In the story "Dead Men's Path," the villagers strongly uphold their traditional beliefs and engage in acts of defiance against the school and its progressive ideas. Their commitment to their cultural customs and rituals is unwavering, with the path that passes through their village being particularly significant. Described as an "ancient, straight track" used by their ancestors, the path holds sacred value for the villagers, representing a connection between the living and the dead. When the headmaster tries to close the path, one villager declares, "We shall not abandon the path... We shall use it like our fathers did.

At its finest, horror is seductive. Some of the best works of horror are those which test the limitations of degrees of wrongness and still manage to keep audiences enticed. Like Clive Barker’s “In the Hills, the Cities”, a story following a gay couple, Mick and Judd, celebrating their honeymoon in Yugoslavia during a decade of celebration in the nearby cities of Popolac and Podujevo. Only this celebration involves a ritual where the thirty thousand citizens of each city are bound together to create two giant creatures. This story captures the essence of horror by both repulsing its readers and leaving their minds unsettled.

The actual fear of monsters could be easily associated with escapist fantasies and once again with categorization itself, since one might want to relate to the monstrous reality and culture. We distrust and loathe the monster for its freedom, independence, and ‘unchainedness’. () Escapist fantasies and excitement are yielding to the actual fear of the monster only when the monster is threatening, not contained, possibly trying to cross the boundaries. In other cases, it may serve as a delightful alter-ego, as a representation of the forbidden fruit. We do not fear the monsters in the horror movies, books, and pictures – for we know those are temporary and finite media of their presence.

Have you ever read a story that causes chills or your emotionally invested in a character. The story’s Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The mysteries of udolpho by Ann Radcliffe are literature that are centered in fear. These story’s cause suspense or has ghost or some type of monster. A gothic is a great example of fear in literature. The settings, characters, and story line has a way of making the reader invested by hooking to their emotions.

Symbolism is often used to develop and reinforce different themes and messages in novels. In The Book Thief, symbolism of books and reading are used in order to develop the theme that words are extremely powerful. Markus Zusak develops this theme through the symbolism of books that Liesel receives or steals, as well as Mein Kampf, that Max encounters. The Gravedigger’s

The reader can also assume that the speaker’s death was not painful and that they did not struggle because of how the speaker continues to refer to Death as having “civility” (8). “The Dews drew quivering and chill – For only Gossamer, my Gown – My Tippet – only Tulle” (14-16), symbolizes how unprepared the speaker was with her attire. She had on thin clothes on a cold, chilly night. The clothing worn is a death gown, which was typical for the 19th

In “Because I Could Not Stop For Death”, Emily Dickinson uses imagery and symbols to establish the cycle of life and uses examples to establish the inevitability of death. This poem describes the speaker’s journey to the afterlife with death. Dickinson uses distinct images, such as a sunset, the horses’ heads, and the carriage ride to establish the cycle of life after death. Dickinson artfully uses symbols such as a child, a field of grain, and a sunset to establish the cycle of life and its different stages. Dickinson utilizes the example of the busyness of the speaker and the death of the sun to establish the inevitability of death.

Odour of the Chrysanthemums is an intriguing short story that was writing in 1909 by an author known as D.H Lawrence. The story first starts off with an engine that is rustling through towns dropping of men that work in the laboring mines. The men all want to get home to their lovely families but tragedy yet again strikes a family of four as the husband is nowhere to be found coming off the train. The wife Elizabeth Bates and her two young children John and Annie anxiously waiting for the master of the house to get home. As they are waiting and the uncertainty of where Mr. Bates is at.