THE HAUNTED HOUSE The night was dark, the sky was clear, and the moon was full. It was a perfect night for it to be Halloween. You could hear the sounds of the neighborhood children scaring each other, laughing, and making scary sounds. The children were dressed up in all different costumes...
Scary Day When I was 13, brave was my middle name. I was never worried about something bad happening. I thought that bad things only happened to bad people. I knew that I was brave, but that only lasted until I got put into a position I had no control over. One morning in the summer of 2003, I was...
Meg Gause English 1 Per 1 Suspense Writing Scary Scavenger Hunt It was Saturday night, and I had nothing to do. I thought of calling Jessica, Suzie, and maybe a few more people. As I was about to call Jessica; Mekayla calls. Mekayla came up with a wonderful idea. She says, “We should get some people...
Last, First ~/~/~ The House of Hades is Rick Riordan’s fourth installment of his series Heroes of Olympus. Have you ever felt like nobody noticed you, nobody cared, that you were too… aggressive? In this novel you have Nico, Leo, and Frank who learn there’s a difference between life and death...
In Sandra Cisneros’ novel, The House on Mango Street, the main character, Esperanza, has many experiences on Mango Street that contribute to her growth and development as she comes of age. Esperanza’s maturity arises due to her exposure and difficulties in different aspects of her life. These include...
When we were at the first house, my grandfather knocked on the door. Two women opened their door, and we said trick or treat to them. They gave us some candies and said “Happy Halloween.” We went to the second house, and my grandfather did the same thing he did at the first house. Later that night, there...
key lighting, and high or low camera angles to show scary and mysterious scenes in the movie. Tim Burton, in Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory uses non diegetic music in many different scenes. He uses dark, loud, and scary music to give the scene more value and a mysterious...
they walked outside and there was a bunch of corvettes was priceless even hysterical. However my week of fun was over it was time to go to my mom’s house. I was bored out of my mind the whole week. I actually watched paint dry until my eyes bled. Of course she made me clean it up but I was actually doing...
straight away he is describing what it would be like to be in that situation yourself. If the setting had been in a normal inner city house or something then there is nothing scary about it but if it is set out in the middle of nowhere it provides a feeling of isolation from civilisation, and also when it I...
are just his imagination. Steven King’s movies are an element of fantasy and supernatural. His fantasy work can relate to all of us. The unknown is scary-But knowing maybe scarier going down in a dark noisy basement the thick fog you can’t see but you must keep going. I guess because we all have a dark...
There are all kinds of structures and thoughts attached to them. Most important of them all, are the buildings. Right there in front of me is a small house, with a little terrace. There are a few plants that bloom there but it is a sight to see during a nice thunderstorm, as the whole place looks like a...
really anxious to see if anybody is in the house as he has repeatedly said the question. In this poem there is also personification and an example is “Hearkening in an air stirr’d and shaken.” It makes it that there is surely somebody listening in the house but didn’t reply. The language in these...
Amina is taking her usual way back to her house after spending the day at her aunties and cousin’s house when she feels footsteps walking behind her. Amina looks back and doesn’t find anyone, she continues walking. The footsteps don’t stop, they become louder and closer, amina looks back and finds a...
Awakening It was midnight when I was sleeping in my house with nothing but darkness. No friends were there nor were there family members. Actually, I was dreaming. A killer killed every single person who answered his phone calls in my dream. At that time, the dream was real to me, so I awoke with fear...
The first horror movie I ever saw was The Exorcist. I was nineteen years old when I watched this movie, while over at my friends’ house. This movie was the most terrifying experience of my life. It left me fearful of Ouija boards. I spent many nights awake wondering whilst in my bed, what was going...
medieval lifestyle in which he made his house a castle. In Bermuda islands there are most to exactly the same tropical, rainy really humid as the same is the island in this setting. If General Zaroff didn’t live on the island I don’t think the story would be as scary because people would know he is no were...
Describing words Chill | Spooky | Gloomy | Scary | Hair-raising | Cobwebs | Eerie | Frightened | Spine-chilling | Old and cold | Shivers of fear | Isolated | Scream | Shriek | Deathly | Creepy | Howling | Shrill | Darkness | Misty or foggy | Footsteps | Graveyard | Corpse...
hurt themselves and others to obtain their drug of choice. They commit house robberies and steal money from anyone whose guard is let down for only milliseconds. Places where people purchase drugs are considered dangerous or scary to many people. Approximately 6 million dollars a year is spent on drugs...
keep my eyes open to watch the terror unfold. I had to keep my eyes open. I had to see what was going on. At first the movie didn’t seem to be scary, but as it got deeper into the movie people were being attacked and turned into werewolves! It scared me because I could not believe that could ever...
symbolic subject in this story such as Emily’s house, the rose… The first, Miss Emily’s house is an important in this story. For most of the story, we, like the townspeople, only see Miss Emily’s house from the outside looking in. The fact that the house was built in the 1870s tells us that Miss Emily's...
torture us and demand a ransom from our families. I walked inside and then, I saw it...... It was as hairy as a baboon, as dirty as a troll, as scary as a zombie and as sickening as the smell of a raccoon’s bottom. What was this horrible creature? I wasn’t about to stay to found out, i tried to storm...
them it has to be the middle of the afternoon, all my doors and windows have to be locked, and all the lights in the house have to be on. Through this crazy ritual I have watched many scary movies and come away with a few lessons learned. Today I am going to share some of those lessons with you. LESSONS: ...
Soc 04/1/16 Food Inc. After watching food Inc., I felt so sad. The movie was interesting about where the food we eat comes from, but scary and disgusting. I became more aware of the food I eat or buy. The part that most bothered me the most in the food Inc. movie was the part about the firms hiring...
you name it) into a pretend gun and started running around the house like a pint-size Han Solo taking down Storm Troopers. With the events of Newtown still fresh in my mind, I was horrified. We purposely don't have any toy guns in the house, save a few squirt guns, but that didn't seem to matter. With...
King 04-16-2013 Tue-Thur 9:25-10:40 Descriptive Essay My best friend Nick was thinking about moving out of his mom’s house and was looking for a nice cheap house. And I referred him to a few but they where just a little bit out of his price range, but the next day he called me with such enthusiasm...
allow anyone to share her grief. She went through life just being attended to by Toby, her loyal manservant. She kept to herself in her old, tattered house. It was once the symbol of elegance in their Jefferson town. But it depreciated together with the way Miss Emily and her life depreciated in her constant...
I can’t go back to sleep so I talk to myself about my experience. I wake up being scared(I take a pause and breath) I had a scary dream nevermind I wouldn’t call it scary I would call it haunting. I don’t know why im saying this, its so stupid im talking to myself, im really a freak(laugh). I feel...
too small to understand the dark side of human. ‘It’s men you should be afraid of, not monster.’ his father, Pino, taught him that monsters are not scary, they are just something he created himself which do not exist, where as human is the most difficult creature. Human is a living that does exist and...
generation. For me it is hard to just text someone. I was raised in the generation were instead of just calling friends on the phone, we went over to their houses and talked face to face. We would go out of our homes and actually make contact with others of our population. Another problem I find with texting...
“beautiful and glamorous mother” Dorothea, and sent to live with grandmother. April didn’t know much about her grandmother so the whole situation was scary to her. When her neighbor Melanie went to visit April, was surprised. April’s hair was stacked up in a pile that seemed to be more pins than...
Jersey Devil, Blackbeard’s Ghost and Hookman (americanfolklore.net). These classic heroes and characters help keep the mythology going. One of these scary ghost stories is the classic The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, telling the frightening story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman. The Legend of...
ed as if the footsteps were getting closer. I decided I had to turn around and face the approaching terror. This was it. Hiding in a room in a scary house: I jerked the dusty door open and ran inside, slamming the door behind me with an almighty bang. I leaned up against the door, breathing heavily...
Robert Neville lives alone in his house that was super barricaded to fend off the Zompires. Garlic, mirrors, and wooden spikes. All of the usual vampire tricks. He has been living off of dog food and powdered milk for many years now. Fighting off a heart-attack from the scary noises of the Zompires at night...
Stan’s wife in a shocked but knowing full way. Stan is a train driver for U.S cargo; he lives in the outskirts of Colorado. Stan’s bucked teeth, scary face and small grey goatee makes him the perfect train driver, however people judge him as the stereotypical person he appears to be, if you were to...
kitchen and left the tap running, and then I went in the drawing room and switched on the lights, fan and the air conditioner. If I leave this house then the house will be in a bad condition. Saying good bye I left as right now foster mom and foster dad were still at work. Everything was going according...
Edgar Allen Poe In The Masque of the Red Death and in The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allen Poe uses the setting to help create a singular effect in each story by showing irony and showing the mood. In The Masque of the Red Death, Poe creates such a wonderful description that it makes the reader...
Sophia Zia My Autobiography Starting secondary school was very scary. I was very excited because I thought going to school would make me look big, and it was a big step from primary school. I woke up extra early and put on my uniform I twirled infront of the mirror, so proud...
carefully, hence she is conveying her message to the readers this way. “I’m a ponderous house” this could mean she is pregnant. “House” she is large as a house due to pregnancy. The idea she called herself a “ponderous house” could be coupled with the fact that she is pondering the future of her baby. This...
sensory imagery; “I had such fears inside, not in my head but in my stomach. I could no longer see what was scary but I could feel it.” The distance between Ying Ying and her family has made the house ‘silent’, due to the lack of communication between the family members. This silence is contrasted to the...
spend the weekend to your house. She could not think twice and she said, "No problem, I will take you with me after class then". She took me with her and when our maid came to take me home after class, she could not find me. She went back home crying because she was scary and called my mom’s office...
and witchcraft. Party goers would wear festive costumes, play games, and share foods of the season (para 8). People were encouraged to take anything scary or grotesque out of Halloween celebrations. Because of this, Halloween lost most of its religious and superstitious overtones by the twentieth century...
feelings and emotions when I watch I view this particular scary movie. They are specific and apparent. However, it’s the medley of all of these aspects that truly makes a horror movie fall into it’s genre. A good horror is simply a scary film that that has both an evil entity and a protagonist...
time, recounts his interaction with Barbara Johns and the students of Morton High School. “It was Barbara Johns, she wanted us to take her keys to her house and handle it. She was so insistent, I said you know what, we’ll meet you at Farmville.” The lawyers told the people of Prince Edward County that they...
Brooke were best friends who graduated from high school a year beforeand today they decided to meet at their favorite café to talk about their new house. The dinner was a celebration and a business event at the same time. Their realtor Kathy was meeting them there to sign the final papers before they...
is not credible. Edelman writes, "When John became so scarce around our house, I had to compensate by being utterly present in every way: as a kisser of boo-boos; a dispenser of discipline; an assembler of child furniture; a scary monster slayer, mortgage financer, reseeder of dying backyards... Balancing...
“I was scared of a lot of things” (Dully 14) Chapter 2 page 31 “So when started spanking me, I started laughing. It didn’t hurt. It wasn’t scary. It was funny.” “She’d have to find another way to keep me in line.” (Dully 31) Chapter 3 page 38 “Maybe that’s part of the reason I behave badly...
gives people the freedom to communicate and ask questions, read signs and understand what is going on. To be in a new country for the first time can be scary and frightening. For example, when someone arrives at a new airport and doesn’t understand the signs, doesn’t know where to go, where the gate is or...
not want to be left alone. Another child, who is a friend of a child who was trapped in the Taj, kept imploring, "Why can't he come and stay in our house?" The way the media have bombarded audiences with images, repeating each gunshot and explosion relentlessly, sometimes accompanied by a shrill commentary...
The area turns into a hot bath house for the gods and spirits to replenish themselves. Haku helps her to find a job in the bath house in order for her to stay and finds a way to save her parents. Though the work is hard, and she has to work with monsters in the bath house, she does as well as she can and...
I saw stores and shops and restaurants. Almost the same as back home except they were covered with fluffy white snow. When we arrived to our new house, our rooms were already set up. The smell of fresh paint made me feel at home. All the other rooms had also been painted and unpacked. And as for the...
polished granite tombstone to ''shine''. I also discovered that the closer that I got to the stone the less it glowed. Quite a scary weekend, but it was cool. We rented a house off of battery Avenue that was near a pond that supposedly some children had drowned in. There were a few instances of a human...
were smoking marijuana." The latter mentioned wasn't even the worst of it, because I even saw somebody get shot to death: I was at my cousin's house, and we were looking out of her window when all of a sudden we see three motorcycles drive by and shoot five times at a guy walking by. We ran down...
your vehicle, start up the engine, and carefully put your seatbelt on. In your mind you are ready for what problems could arise on the way from your house to the grocery store, but as you pull out of your driveway, out of nowhere you are rear ended from another vehicle because they were not able to stop...
thought, What will I do? I took a swig. That was the biggest mistake of my life – I had to drive home later that night. We arrived at my friends’ house and watched a movie. About an hour later I asked them to bring me back to my car. Not thinking, I got in and drove off. At a stop sign I realized...
Chouteau, Oklahoma is an Amish community but it is far more advanced than my life in Pennsylvania. We moved into a farm house in the country that an Amish family had for sale. The house was too small for them so they built a larger home. Our home is nestled on top of a hill over looking our pastures. Though...
nightmares for white parents Whose worst fear is a child with dyed hair and who likes earrings Like whatever they say has no bearing Its so scary in a house that allows no swearing To see him walking around with his headphones blaring Alone in his own zone, cold and he dont care He's a problem child...
A day in a American House C- I am so happy; my friend is coming to visit me from Cote d’ivoire (Knock on door) V- Hello Coraline C-AHH! Hello Vanessa come on in. C-it’s been a long time ago since I seen you V-not to long V-oh yeah this is my little cousin Geo, he doesn’t know anything about...
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little. The combination of heavenly scents of sweet yet spicy cinnamon, earthy pumpkin, and aromatic herbs, permeates the air as it drifts through the house, making tummies rumble and grumble in eagerness. The made from scratch yeast rolls, that you just can’t help but to sneak a few just to nibble on. The...
lose consciousness, which is known as fainting. One night I was staying at my friend Hannah’s house that is out in the country, about three miles from the town of Waldron. It was a 2-story white house with a wraparound porch leading from the tall white front door to the squeaky brown back door. About...