House of Usher - p. 331-333 by Anton Than [Student FVHS] https://padlet.com/atthan100/ppdpp9nurbr5 spook Bryan Dinh, Samantha Reyna, Anton Than, Steve Stewart en-us 2017-11-09 17:06:14 UTC 2023-05-30 22:29:39 UTC hello@padlet.com Summary atthan100 https://padlet.com/atthan100/ppdpp9nurbr5/wish/205387960 The narrator is sitting in a room alone when Roderick Usher enters with a look of hysteria on his face; despite his troubled look, the narrator appreciates his company.  Roderick begins to mumble incoherently, and opens the window to let the impetuous wind from the storm enter the house.  He is noticeably troubled by the storm, so the narrator affirms that it is just a natural phenomenon.  To calm him down, he decides to read Roderick part of Mad Trist, a story about Ethelred, a doughty hero who slays a dragon.
As the narrator continues to read from the story, he notices unsettling parallels between Mad Trist and his current situation.  For example, as he reads about Ethelred slaying the dragon, he hears a shriek emanating from the ground below.  As the narrator continues reading, Roderick sits with his head down, mumbling about his dead sister.  At the climax, he shouts that someone is at the door; the doors swing open, revealing his sister.  She falls on Roderick, causing him to collapse on the floor and die.  After witnessing such a horror, the narrator flees the scene; shortly after, the House of Usher crumbles apart.
]]> 2017-11-09 17:14:20 UTC https://padlet.com/atthan100/ppdpp9nurbr5/wish/205387960 Connection #1 atthan100 https://padlet.com/atthan100/ppdpp9nurbr5/wish/205392804 “...there came, indistinctly, to my ears, what might have been, in its exactly similarity of character, the echo of the very cracking and ripping sound which Sir Launcelot had so particularly described. It was, beyond doubt, the coincidence alone which had arrested my attention…” (332). 
As the narrator reads the story, he hears the same sound coming from inside the house.]]> 2017-11-09 17:22:14 UTC https://padlet.com/atthan100/ppdpp9nurbr5/wish/205392804 Connection #2 atthan100 https://padlet.com/atthan100/ppdpp9nurbr5/wish/205393411 “... I did actually hear a low and apparently distant, but harsh, protracted, and most unusual screaming or grating sound-the exact counterpart of what my fancy had already conjured up for the dragon’s unnatural shriek as described by the romancer.” (332). 
Again, the narrator hears sounds that are coming from the book that are now in the house which is causing him to be scared.]]> 2017-11-09 17:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/atthan100/ppdpp9nurbr5/wish/205393411 Foreshadowing- Brian Dinh atthan100 https://padlet.com/atthan100/ppdpp9nurbr5/wish/205394031
  • “...there came, indistinctly, to my ears, what might have been, in its exactly similarity of character, the echo of the very cracking and ripping sound which Sir Launcelot had so particularly described. It was, beyond doubt, the coincidence alone which had arrested my attention…” (332).
  • The foreshadowing of the story, “ Mad Trist of Sir Lancelot Canning” describes the same noise that Roderick Usher has been hearing for the past three days and now the narrator hears the noises as well. This is also foreshadow that maybe the sister is still alive and been buried alive which is why they hear noises everywhere.
    • ]]>     2017-11-09 17:24:09 UTC https://padlet.com/atthan100/ppdpp9nurbr5/wish/205394031     Connection #3 atthan100 https://padlet.com/atthan100/ppdpp9nurbr5/wish/205394180 “ I now tell you that I heard her first feeble movements in the hollow coffin. I heard them- many, many days ago- yet I dared not - I dared no speak!” (333) 
    Roderick tells the narrator that he heard her move around in the coffin but doesn’t say anything.]]>     2017-11-09 17:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/atthan100/ppdpp9nurbr5/wish/205394180     Connection #4 atthan100 https://padlet.com/atthan100/ppdpp9nurbr5/wish/205394609 “ There was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. For a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold- then, with a low moaning cry, fell  heavily inward upon the person of her brother…” (333) 
    As the door open they both saw the sister covered in blood standing there very ghost like, very thin and weak. She then rushes onto the brother killing her and Rodrick.]]>     2017-11-09 17:25:11 UTC https://padlet.com/atthan100/ppdpp9nurbr5/wish/205394609     atthan100 https://padlet.com/atthan100/ppdpp9nurbr5/wish/205401688 2017-11-09 17:37:43 UTC https://padlet.com/atthan100/ppdpp9nurbr5/wish/205401688