Transformation In Oates's Where Is Here

As bizarre as it might seem, the element of transformation is truly a great benefaction when it comes to making a horror story. Change plays an essential role in gothic literature because it takes something that is familiar and safe to the reader and turns it into something new and uncomfortable. There are quite a few examples of this in literature, and other storytelling forms. For example, “The Fall of The House of Usher,” by Edgar Allan Poe, “Where Is Here,” by Joyce Carol Oates, and “House Taken Over,” by Julio Cortazar, which are all literary pieces that deal with the phobia of transformation. In addition to these Doki Doki Literature Club, also uses the metamorphosis to change from calm to physcotic to both excite and frighten players.

A transformation is a thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance. This can relate to the mind or the actual physical appearance of something. Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. These two words can be closely related when it comes to being scared. In "Fall of the House of Usher," by Edgar Allen Poe, a reader becomes scared because the mind is transformed. In "House Taken Over," by Julio Cortázar, a simple house transforms into something mysterious. In "Where is Here?" by Joyce Carol Oates, the minds of family members transform and create a sense of terror. Transformation plays a role in stories meant to scare us by changing something in the story to create a suspenseful or mysterious outcome.

Transformation plays a role in stories meant to scare us by playing with our imagination safety and mood of a story. Imagination appears in both Edgar Allan Poe’s, gothic fiction story “The Fall of the House of Usher,” by Usher’s isolated environment and in Joyce Carol Oates gothic literature story “Where is Here?,” by foreseeing who people are. Transformation also plays a role by it assists knowing our own selves are safe in a scary situation. This is shown in, “ Why do Some Brains Enjoy Fear?,” by Allegra Ringo and in “ House Taken Over,” by Julio Cortazar. Transformation plays with our imagination and our safety it also plays a role in the mood and setting. This appears in , “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and “The Dream Collector,”

Today I will be analysis the fiction story of Where is Here? By: Joyce Carlo Oates. The theme of the story is about visiting a once childhood home. The book gives off varieties of emotions with the four characters that were written in this story. The mother, the father, the son, and the stranger. In this paper, I will be going over the story Where is Here. Carefully rereading more into the settings, characters, and meaning of the story of the stranger, one of Joyce Carlo Oates characters. Here is my analysis of a childhood home forever loved.

It took me three times to get use to riding a bike and after I got it down, we decided to head out down the block to Independence park on the bikes. This was the only park in the city that had a mix of a skate park and traditional park. We would usually hang out in the playground since we did not skate. When we got to front of the park we set our bikes down by a wooden fence that separated the grass area and parking lot. Isabel and Bianca had rushed out to the swings and I did some snooping around the park. I was always curious about my surroundings when I went out since I did not have that luxury to be out or play when I would have wanted to. I loved taking in the scenery, the beauty of the nature, and the flowers. They were my favorite thing about visiting Independence park. I was walking around this fence that surrounded the playground until I had reached the restrooms. I noticed this huge brown paper bag sitting on this phone booth. I was secretly freaking out cause I was curious to what was inside. My mom had always told me not be a traviesa (naughty) and that I should never touch what doesn’t belong to me so I rushed off to Isabel and Bianca to tell them about the bag. I figured I needed some partners in crime for this. When I got to the swings I was very out of breath I was a pretty chubby kid growing up, but that still did not stop me from running, I enjoyed it a lot actually. As gathered myself together and took in a deep breath Isabel yelled, “What is it? Why are you running so fast?” I looked up to her and said, “There is a brown on phone booth just sitting there. It’s so strange no one is here at the park and it is just there. Why?” She gave me a look as if I had said the most uninteresting thing on the planet and continued to say, “Okay? Why does this

Julio Cortazar’s “House Taken Over” transformation creates fear because a peaceful day of Irene and the brother cleaning their house goes from being peaceful to a demon taking over sides of their house. This is effective, because a perfect day went from being horrifying very few days later. One example is “It was pleasant to take lunch and commune with the great hollow, silent house, and it was enough for us just to keep it clean”

Sometimes our tests for tornadoes would be at the same time of the test for the whole town, I was freaked out though, just a little bit because of the sirens, every time they came on I was freaking out but, I was still upset that I didn't get to read. To my surprise, everyone was freaking out and crying. I didn't understand why, but they were the younger kids.We made it to the safe spot which was right outside of our pads, near the library. In my head, it was the set of a normal drill, cover your head, then the creepy thing would happen where they would cover the huge library window when a metal sheet. My best friend Elise was sitting next to me and I asked her if it was a drill. She said,¨No!¨ Then we both started crying. I was thinking and praying that my principal would walk in and give her normal speech after the drill, but it wasn´t a drill.

Creeeeek...BANG! The door slammed again. Grace turns around to see the closed door. Once more, she walks over and reopens it, scared of being separated from the rest of the house. She watches the door, anxious, expecting it to slam again. Terrified, she just stares through the doorway, into the hall, feeling her heart beat out of control. She was petrified, afraid of the unknown, afraid of what was happening in her very bedroom. Authors use this and many other techniques in literature meant to invoke fear. One is through alteration, or change. Transformation plays a key role in stories meant to scare us through transforming something we know and love into something to be feared, surprising us, and fear of the unknown.

In Joyce Carol Oats’ “Where is Here?”, a strange visitor comes to a family’s home to look through and reminisce about his childhood. Throughout the story, the stranger moves from place to place about the house, stopping and telling little details from his childhood concerning some of the rooms. Oats’ chooses to have the stranger move about the house in a certain order, as to have the desired effect on readers.Throughout the events of “Where is Here?”, this effect is achieved. The stranger first starts his tour in the garage. However, the reader does not get any details about why the stranger might be interested in the garage. He then moves to the backyard, going down to an old swing set. The reader learns that these swings were more than likely there when the stranger was a child because of the posts being rotted. Without giving the readers almost any detail about the outside of the house, the story moves on to the stranger being invited inside. Once inside the house, the stranger goes into the kitchen. He notices some things have changed since he lived in the house, but some have stayed the same. He also makes a remark about a door, asking if it leads to the basement. However the couple ignores this question and moves on. The stranger then notices some flowers on a windowsill and says his mother used to have flowers there too, although they never bloomed. He then moves to the dining room, telling about who sat where at the table. Also, the reader discovers that the couple’s children are the same age as the stranger and his sister were when they lived in this house. Next came the living room, in which the stranger pointed out that there used to be a water stain on the fireplace mantel, but the couple hadn’t seen it before. He also tells about the window seat, and how it was one of his happy places in the house whenever his father wasn’t home. He says that his mother would sit there with him as they plotted together. She would also read him stories and riddles that he could never answer. When the mother asks the stranger if his mother is still alive, he answers no and says,”We’ve all been dead—they’ve all been dead—a long time.” The story then states that the stranger seemed to limp his way up the stairs,

In,”Where is Here?” the family should’ve known letting the stranger inside the house was a bad idea. One can tell that the stranger possesses weird powers, due to the fact on what he does to the house when he leaves. “I wasn’t the one who opened the door to that man in the first place,” said the mom on page 76. This shows that the mom knew that something was going to happen, which is why she didn’t want the stranger inside their house in the first place. This quote also shows that the stranger had an effect on their family and home. Another quote which demonstrates transformation is when the father says on page 76,”Shut up. We’ll forget it,” he said.” This shows that letting the stranger inside the house was a terrible idea, that the father want’s to completely forget about what has happened. The father says this to the mother because he doesn’t want to talk about what has happened at that moment, but rather forget about the situation. The final quote from the story on page 76, which shows transformation

Without transformation stories won’t be as scary as they are now. What are some things that transformation occur in? Transformation can occur in people, objects, and nature. There are some stories that have transformation in them. Transformation can occur in a lot of things like in nightmares and things that you hear from other people. The stories that require transformation is Frankenstein, ”Fall of the House of Usher”, the poem called Raven, and even pictures too like a picture with a boy stuck in the roof of his house in the water, and a boy in a burned down building. I even have heard and experienced it too.

This story is a classic theme of stranger danger. These stories give moral ideas to all listeners, both young and old. Oral tradition is the way that people

Throughout this paper, I will be discussing three main themes that illustrate how this transformation takes place whether for Paris in A Thousand Ships, or for Dr. Manhattan and Dan in Watchmen. The themes are the concept of internal

Fear transforms – not only the person, but their heart, mind, and soul. How does that work? Let me use myself as an example. I have had a nightmare that transformed the meaning of fear to me. The fear I have felt because of this nightmare. Because of this nightmare my transformation into a teenager was warped by fear. In other words, fear transformed my transformation into an isolating process. My heart, soul, and mind were obsessed with isolation, and fantasy. To me, fear is having my world, my meaning, and the trajectory of my life turned the wrong direction, or killed.

“The Little Stranger” is a 2009 gothic novel written by Sarah Waters. It is a ghost story set in a dilapidated mansion in Warwickshire, England in the 1940s. This novel features a male narrator, a country doctor who makes friends with a family with faded fortunes left simply with a very old estate that is crumbling around them. The stress of reconciling the state of their finances with the familial responsibility of keeping the estate coincides with perplexing events which may or may not be of supernatural origin, culminating in tragedy.