Being different

When people see ones child, they see their parents represented through them. Parents want their kids to act in a manner that doesn't make them look bad, so they install how they were raised as well as cultural history to keep the family flame burning. But what if the child wants to new set flames making them unique. With most children, the dilemma is how can you be excepted by your parents, make them proud but also be unique at the same time?

Although many have heard this almost everywhere, to just be yourself but don't forget  where you came from. Its good to have roots and historical culture passed by our parents, but embrace you own way of living it. Its good to explore the outer limits of your family ways/ culture because it opens your mind and makes you aware that their are more ways to live other than the ways installed by parents or grand parents. I'm Panamanian , those are my roots but my family is unique. Unlike some my family pushes for uniqueness but like for everyone in the family to well educated about our Panamanian culture. Having visited panama many times I it sinks the family flame deeper and deeper into heart and soul making it instilled in my self being. I walk around knowing about my family, my country, and the culture set by my parents that's not going away.

However, I find many other ways of living intriguing and step outside my North American and Central American shoes into the ones of asian descents. The Japanese way of life has always been a culture that's caught my eye and it doesn't really look like the one my family and I have known for a long long time. It causes challenge because it makes my family step out of their comfort zone but is good because they learn out to except another why of life making them more diverse and aware of other cultures. Ive been to Japan and my family were excited for me to see how other people live their life in another county.

It takes time for your own style of culture to settle in with your parents. Sexual orientation, education desitions, and other factors can cause hysteria with in your family culture. But as long as you know where you came from , it opens the door to that third option. At the end of the day you're happy your living your own unique life and your parents are glad knowing that the family flame keeps burning.

Edgar Allan Poed

Gothic was a literary form in the late eighteenth century. As a literary 

term, gothic can be defined as the subgenre of the novel with eerie, supernatural 

or horrifying events. Gothic fiction is an European Romantic, portrayed fantastic tales dealing 

with the terrifying, archaic settings, which usually gives shape to concepts of exploration and exploitation of the supernatural and dark, emotional plots that investigate closely to the unconscious human mind.

Not the first but defiantly influential on Gothic literacy would be the well known Edgar Allen Poe.

Famous for many of his works, including Fall of the House of Ushers he uses mystery, madness of the main character, symbolism, dreary landscape, and fatal attractions. 

 

Mystery is very  key technique when it comes to haunted stories cause it give your work structure. Basing your story around a mystery not only makes the audience try to puzzle together sequence, but also question the outcomes. As an artist I've been told by a former art teacher that you work is successful when people question it. 

Madness of the character, or simply the unreliably of the character kind of ties onto the mystery. If the reader finds out that the main character isn't sure, then the audiences final conclusions may vary, its like if a group of people walked in a dark wooded area with one main light. If the light goes out then the group loses course and may cause separation.We are alone with the narrator in this haunted space, and not we nor the narrator know why. Although he is Roderick’s most intimate boyhood friend, the narrator apparently does not know much about him—like the basic fact that Roderick has a twin sister. Poe asks us to question the reasons both for Roderick’s decision to contact the narrator in this time of need and the bizarre tenacity of narrator’s response.

Most of the symbolism in "The Fall of the House of Usher" is internal. The main example of symbolism is the physical house itself. The structural "house of Usher" symbolizes the family line or "House of Usher, because family lines of the nobility in England are referred to as "Houses." The family line of the several kings and nobility of England were referred to as the "House of York" or the "House of Lancaster", etc. And adding symbolism is more of the creative aspect that does along with your story, creating a deep understanding, and reading between the lines that the audience will then again have to puzzle together while analyzing the tale.

The Imagery describing the location of the house  was very dark and gloomy, and it set a tone for the rest of the story so dreary landscape would intensify the means of being a horror. That's why all the traditional scary movies, event few current movies take place in the woods or somewhere old and dying, because it intensifies the dark mood.

Lastly fatal attractions, because the narrator was so close to Roderick, when he read "Mad Trist" all heel broke loose. He started to realize the situation he was in and barley escaped the collapsing house.

The use of fatal attractions it like keeping the meat on marinate. The author can linger with story keeping the character attracted to something that will cause a spooky conflict, and have the reader attracted to the anticipation of the characters discovery. Their are many other techniques Poe as well as other gothic romanticists use, but generally These things are what I think come together to create an engaging haunted story. And I bet the next time you watch a movie you will identify these components as well as more and you will see it for more than just the scary movie that scared you and your friends. I did this with Insidious 2 and  The Conjuring, before this blog discussion , before knowing about Poe and now I see where these movies based their story line structure from a lot better.