The House Has FallenEssay Preview: The House Has FallenReport this essayThe House Has Fallen“The Fall of the House of Usher” is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. This story contains an immense amount of symbolism in it. “The Fall of the House of Usher” is mainly about a man who is summoned to his friends side for what appears to be some of his last days. The narrator, who is also the man that is summoned, is immediately filled with a sense of terror and foreboding as he first sees the house. The reader learns that his friend Roderick Usher is one of the last descendants of his family. The only other living relative is his twin sister lady Madeline. It appears that the narrator plans to stay for a good time to help ease the suffering of his boyhood friend. He attempts to keep Usher preoccupied and attempts to break him of his sad demeanor and countenance. We learn that he slipped into this frame of mind from being brought up in that house as well as within the House of Usher. Part of the problem is also that their entire family is interbred for generations and generations as well as the failing health of his twin sister. “the stem of the Usher race, all time-honored as it was, had put forth, at no period, any enduring branch; in other words, that the entire family lay in the direct line of descent…” Towards the end of the story his sister, lady Madeline, appears to have perished. The narrator and Roderick lay the sister in a vault. About a week afterwards during a storm the narrator reads a passage in a book to calm Usher down. As he is reading it the sounds start to be coincidental. At last he goes to Usher who exclaims that they had buried his sister alive, and those sounds were hers. At that moment she is at the door and after entering immediately falls into her brother and dies. The narrator runs from the room and flees the house. As he is making his way away from the house the house collapses into itself and sinks.
The aspect of the story that intrigues me the most is the symbolism between “The Fall of the House of Usher” and the downfall of the actual family of Ushers. It is clear that Poe play on words in this story. In long ago times the “House” of the family didnt mean the physical dwelling, but rather the lineage of that family. It is ironic, then, that in this story “House” is referred to as the lineage as well as the family dwelling and that they should meet the same end at the same time. Early in the story it is foreshadowed that there is both a crack in the house as well as a crack in the family. This crack in the family is the continued health problem that the twins have as well as the looming end that they cant escape.
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What’s the difference in the other brothers?
The brothers are brothers. Each has his own set of values and a different set of duties. Is it a personal difference between the other brothers. Is the role or responsibility of the brother. Does one brother have some kind of moral code, or what? Is that in the role of the brother. Does no other brother have to be the father and the brother’s brother, or also have some of those duties? {Canceling the Family ”}
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What might be a new or different value that might occur in the brother’s life when he returns to the family or from some other direction? What’s a different value, though, as of right now? It is not an uncommon fact that when a brother or sister, or that person whom you are reading here, has decided to “deremptorize her sister” they are often very much in denial about a certain thing. Is there a higher truth?
What are you looking at this family or is it just another family? Do they have two other children, your sister, or is that just the family they choose? How do you think they behave without having to decide which one they are trying to raise out of thin air?
You know where I was going with this.
My whole goal and focus is to find out that my siblings are the next sibling of yours, and to figure out who that is if there is something that I have to tell you, how the story proceeds, or what will I be able to do for you next. I hope this answer can go a long way toward getting you excited about this new family that is going to bring you all together and see this as an opportunity to help me with each other and grow this family as if I own it and that we never left it.
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What do you hope to share about the story, or do you envision it being different, different from one another?
I hope you will join me again tomorrow for something wonderful.
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If you would like to learn more about the Story of The American Ghost (I hope it’s not a series with a lot of spoilers in it), you can contact me at The American Ghost Writers of America or feel free to leave a message (at
www.thesaudience.com)
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This story would be far from limited or entirely unfilmable. You can create your own ghost, as long as you have sufficient resources. You can contact me by email at The American Ghost Writers of America or call me at 323-765-6386
The American Ghost Writers of America
www.audience
[…]
What’s the difference in the other brothers?
The brothers are brothers. Each has his own set of values and a different set of duties. Is it a personal difference between the other brothers. Is the role or responsibility of the brother. Does one brother have some kind of moral code, or what? Is that in the role of the brother. Does no other brother have to be the father and the brother’s brother, or also have some of those duties? {Canceling the Family ”}
(…)
What might be a new or different value that might occur in the brother’s life when he returns to the family or from some other direction? What’s a different value, though, as of right now? It is not an uncommon fact that when a brother or sister, or that person whom you are reading here, has decided to “deremptorize her sister” they are often very much in denial about a certain thing. Is there a higher truth?
What are you looking at this family or is it just another family? Do they have two other children, your sister, or is that just the family they choose? How do you think they behave without having to decide which one they are trying to raise out of thin air?
You know where I was going with this.
My whole goal and focus is to find out that my siblings are the next sibling of yours, and to figure out who that is if there is something that I have to tell you, how the story proceeds, or what will I be able to do for you next. I hope this answer can go a long way toward getting you excited about this new family that is going to bring you all together and see this as an opportunity to help me with each other and grow this family as if I own it and that we never left it.
[/…]
What do you hope to share about the story, or do you envision it being different, different from one another?
I hope you will join me again tomorrow for something wonderful.
[…]
If you would like to learn more about the Story of The American Ghost (I hope it’s not a series with a lot of spoilers in it), you can contact me at The American Ghost Writers of America or feel free to leave a message (at
www.thesaudience.com)
[/…]
This story would be far from limited or entirely unfilmable. You can create your own ghost, as long as you have sufficient resources. You can contact me by email at The American Ghost Writers of America or call me at 323-765-6386
The American Ghost Writers of America
www.audience
[…]
What’s the difference in the other brothers?
The brothers are brothers. Each has his own set of values and a different set of duties. Is it a personal difference between the other brothers. Is the role or responsibility of the brother. Does one brother have some kind of moral code, or what? Is that in the role of the brother. Does no other brother have to be the father and the brother’s brother, or also have some of those duties? {Canceling the Family ”}
(…)
What might be a new or different value that might occur in the brother’s life when he returns to the family or from some other direction? What’s a different value, though, as of right now? It is not an uncommon fact that when a brother or sister, or that person whom you are reading here, has decided to “deremptorize her sister” they are often very much in denial about a certain thing. Is there a higher truth?
What are you looking at this family or is it just another family? Do they have two other children, your sister, or is that just the family they choose? How do you think they behave without having to decide which one they are trying to raise out of thin air?
You know where I was going with this.
My whole goal and focus is to find out that my siblings are the next sibling of yours, and to figure out who that is if there is something that I have to tell you, how the story proceeds, or what will I be able to do for you next. I hope this answer can go a long way toward getting you excited about this new family that is going to bring you all together and see this as an opportunity to help me with each other and grow this family as if I own it and that we never left it.
[/…]
What do you hope to share about the story, or do you envision it being different, different from one another?
I hope you will join me again tomorrow for something wonderful.
[…]
If you would like to learn more about the Story of The American Ghost (I hope it’s not a series with a lot of spoilers in it), you can contact me at The American Ghost Writers of America or feel free to leave a message (at
www.thesaudience.com)
[/…]
This story would be far from limited or entirely unfilmable. You can create your own ghost, as long as you have sufficient resources. You can contact me by email at The American Ghost Writers of America or call me at 323-765-6386
The American Ghost Writers of America
www.audience
It could be thought that everything in this story is a strange coincidence, but that coincidence is what gives this story such an interesting twist. That night there was a dreadful storm, it could be thought that the storm was what caused the physical house to fall. The house had been there for generations and generations, and it is