Monday, April 03, 2006

Connections between wieland and emma saxon....

From these two books that I read, "wieland" by Charles B. Brown and "The lady's maid's bell" by Edith wharton, there are two things that I consider similar. First is that the set where the apparation happens is always in a place where there are not many people, it mostly occurs when a person is alone then the ghost appear and The main character of the ghosts are mostly women. First in Lady's maid's bell, Emma saxon exposed herself to Alice Hartley when everybody else in the house is somewhere else. Here in wieland the apparition also exposed herself when pleyel and clara's brother was alone. Also in these thre stories that we've read, why are all the ghosts in the stories are female? I just don't understand it, does a female ghost makes it more creepy? What do you guys think? (post a comment). Also from the selections of words between the three literatures, I'd prefer reading the first two since to me, there are a lot of redundant words that leads me to confusion in reading wieland. ( based on my own preferences)

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

closely looking at emma saxon

To me, pages 30 to 31 are really interesting since it really depicts a major turn of events and swings the mood and tension of the reader. These pages starts in a happy and enjoyable atmosphere, the atmosphere which is starting to dwindle in the house and within the household. This type of setting and atmosphere really lighten the reading up a bit and decrease the tension within the reader, since it seems like there's nothing wrong with the house except for mr. brympton. But after those joyful and merry period, Edith Wharton really swings the atmosphere from merry and peaceful to misterious and intense with the appearance of emma saxon. The author's intention to swing the mood of the reader can also be seen by the word selection in the first half of page 30 and the second half of page 30 to the end of page 31. In the first half of page 30 the words that edith used are merry, joyful, walk in the morning, happy. In the second half up to page 31, the words that she used are dragged with ropes, black and lonely in the snow. To me this part of the book really invited me to dig deeper tor eading the rest of the story.