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Thursday, October 13, 2011

The fall of the house of Usher

Describe the house in the story. How do the narrator and Usher spend their time? What happened to Usher's sister? What happened to the house? Include a quote about your favorite part.

The narrator starts the story with heading to his old friend. The narrator describes his house looks gloomy, dark, secret, and like the ghost house. The narrator and Usher spend their time with playing guitar, singing songs, and reading the books. Usher's sister, Madeline, is died because of mysterious disease, so Usher and the narrator bury her in the underground tomb. His sister appears again in front of his house and Usher died because he is so frightened to see her. The narrator escapes from his house. After all, House of Usher is collapsed into the ground. My favorite quote is "there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters - and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the "House of Usher". I like that this story has refreshing and shocking ending that House of Usher is destroyed and gone.

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