The first narrator is the man telling the story, an example of his narration can be read from the beginning: During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of …

The narrator is an enigmatic character. One way to explain his role is that the narrator’s job is simply to narrate the story. When the narrator first arrives at the house, he notes several times the isolation and closed-off nature of the Usher family. …

However, in Edgar Allan Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher” is an example of Gothic Literature because, the story’s setting is in an isolated, creepy, and large house with odd characters and a frightening plot line, while Julio Cortazar’s “House Taken Over” is an example of Magical Realism because the realistic …

He hears the cracking and ripping of wood, a shriek, and he hears a shield fall. This is ironic because the noises he hears are the same ones they read about in the story.

Roderick Usher is not well. One conclusion to be drawn from the final scene is that Roderick dies of fear. Madeline rushes upon him and he falls to the floor a corpse, too terrified to go on living.

In “House Taken Over,” what do the narrator and his sister do when the back section of the house is taken over? They sell the house and move away. They call the police and file a report. They move into the other part of the house.

In House Taken Over the author demonstrates how isolation and passivity leads the individual to lose everything; the author does this through his use of sentence structure and word choice. The author’s tone shifts halfway through this piece. At first is very mundane and descriptive.