Welcome back to my blog! Today, I plan to address Tananarive Due’s The Good House (again), this time through Chapter 29. I’d like to start today’s post with a recent story from class. At the start of every class period, my professor writes a question on the whiteboard, and it is usually related to the previous night’s […]
“Celebrate good times, come on!!” There are two reasons why we are celebrating at the end of this week in particular; Hurricane Florence is dwindling down and Baka is finally gone! Who wouldn’t want to celebrate both of these special occasions? The monsters are gone (Florence is getting there)! It has been a long week …
From Myles’ patronizing nick names, to Corey’s budding unhealthy view of women, to Tariq’s anger problem, Tananrive Due is not shy about examining the explicit role misogyny plays in not only The Good House, but the horror genre as a whole. Let’s save Myles and Corey for another discussion. Due specifically uses the role of […]
So what is it really like to grow up in a haunted house? “[My parents] say it’s like living with a very old relative. You just have to take care of it.” Ben Haden, a first year student at Davidson College, grew up in a large historic house near downtown Asheville, NC. The “Valentine House,” named […]
Welcome back to my blog! This week, I would like to examine Chapter 1 of Tananarive Due’s The Good House, a novel that will serve as the focus of my blog for the next two posts. In today’s post, I will analyze this chapter through the broader lens of parental separation, especially regarding its impact on […]
Everyone has that one creepy room in their house they dare not go into. If you even stop to think about the room for a moment in time, chills shiver up your spine and you suddenly get goosebumps all over your body. No matter what anyone says that certain room will always be creepy to …
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There’s something about a story that is captivating. Whether it be a sports story on how some team overcame overwhelming odds against them to achieve something great, a life story in which someone overcame great adversity to do the same, a movie or book that is filled with drama, twists and turns, romance stories, and […]
In the seventh thesis from Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, all his viewpoints are summed up into one. From how we view ourselves, to how society asks us to view the world, to how we view society, all connects to monsters. Monsters are everywhere, movies, books, daily life, and also in our heads. Depending upon how we […]
Hello, and welcome to my blog! My name is Sam Goldfarb, and I am a freshman at Davidson College. I’d like to devote this opening blog post to the introduction of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s Monster Culture, which served as my Writing 101 class’ first reading of the semester. In this excerpt, Cohen presents seven compelling theses […]
A monster in a piece of literature, a movie, or even one you created in your mind will always escape. The fear of not knowing when the monster will return and what new characteristics it may possess, keeps everyone on their toes or hiding under their sheets. The monster escaping is terrifying every time because …
