Werewolves posses a healing factor. In most depictions they can shrug off wounds that would kill an ordinary man, but are weak to silver. This directly parallels Superman’s relationship with Kryptonite. Superman and Werewolves both being very strong beings that have a weakness in mineral form. Saying Kryptonite was inspired by the Werewolf’s weakness to […]
Throughout Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones follows the nameless narrator as he grows up with his family of werewolves. The only problem is…he has never actually transformed into a werewolf (until the end). He was stuck between the werewolf world and the human world, ashamed for enjoying “bland human food” (Jones 61) but not being fully …
In this post specifically, I would like to express my thoughts on the lack of identity for the family the novel focuses on and most importantly the narrator. In the horror novel, Mongrels, by Stephen Graham Jones, the nameless narrator goes throughout the story periodically jumping through and recounting his life with his werewolf family. …
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“You’d think that behavior would come natural to werewolves, but it’s learned really. From the movies, mostly, but from nature shows too.” (Jones, 281) Stephen Graham Jones’ novel, Mongrels, follows a family of werewolves. The story is narrated by the young nephew of Libby and Darren who is trying to understand what it means to …
Imagine this: you are stranded in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by the wilderness. You reach for your phone in your back pocket to call your mom, maybe the police. Then, the line disconnects and now you have no battery. You are now left alone with no one to help you and no way to …
In one of the first scenes of Jordan Peele’s Get Out, Chris and Rose hit a deer on the way to Rose’s parents house. The scene is ultimately used as an excuse to have a racist cop interact with Chris and Rose, and also to set up the irony of Dean, Rose’s dad, getting killed by […]
One aspect of Get Out that plays into one of the many horror film paradigms, is the use of technology. It may not have been Peele’s intention to use technology as an incorporated trope, however this is how I perceived the following scenes. In post modern horror films technology is often included as the barrier …
Get Out is the story of a black man, Chris, who goes to visit his white girlfriend’s family, only to find out that he has effectively been kidnapped. The white family wants his body so that they can transplant the brain of a blind man into his skull. Amazingly, Chris is able to resist some …
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“He felt it in his skin even though the people were gone and all the soft stuff was dead” (Whitehead 12). This is a quote from part one of the fictional novel Zone One by Colson Whitehead on a civilization that has turned into zombies. The literal explanation of the third person narration of this …
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“He possessed a strange faculty for the mandatory” (Whitehead 10) In Colson Whitehead’s Zone One, the world has devolved into a zombie apocalypse, but it might be more accurate to say evolved. Human beings adapt. We change ourselves to best suite the world we live in. We have all seen these images before. The complaining […]
