Sunday, September 19, 2010

Tell tale heart

I like the first long seven-minute video because, first of all, it describes the story in more detail than the other two do. The short one is 30 seconds and a guy yelling words you can’t really hear, the second one does not have the same atmosphere that the first one has. The atmosphere in the first one is spooky and with the narrator talking, you get a feeling of how he thought and the madness in him and also the story becomes more spooky because of the pictures and that his voice is dark and he is very much in character. Because the pictures are dark and spooky some times there is a flash of light, then dark again, it feels like you are inside the madman’s head. The story is very interesting and I thing that Alan Poe was a bit mad to because of his life.


Wednesday, September 15, 2010

"Monkeys paw" Gist statement

Herbert White is Mrs. and Mr Whites son. One day a person called Sergeant Major comes to them and because he is greedy he kills Mr and Mrs White and takes the money they owed him. Herbert white gets angry and want revenge, so he visits India to find an item called the Monkeys paw. He finds it and uses it to wish that Sergeant Major was cursed. Sergent Major felt remorse that he had killed Mrs and Mr. White