In the book House of Dark Shadows, setting is everything. Without the setting, there wouldn't even be a story. For example, the beginning of the story starts with Xander getting used to a new setting in Pinedale, which is the town he moved to away from L.A. Next is the setting of the house they moved to. It is a big, scary house that is surrounded by forest and all of the kids in the King family think it is very suspicious. The imagery in the text helps to promote suspenseful moment by describing the house and how creepy it really is. "Xander looked out the window of the pitch black room and saw nothing... nothing but trees." I don't know about you but that line write their puts a good picture in my head and i would not want to be in Xander's situation right now.
Do you think setting is the main factor in most novels?
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Sunday, January 5, 2014
House of Dark Shadows- Authors Pupose
I think that the author, Robert Liparulo had many reasons for writing this novel. I think the first and main reason the author wrote this story is to entertain a young reader and get them to enjoy reading more. I believe this because the author writes the story as if it is a movie and if you do not like reading you would probably prefer to watch a movie. Another reason the author wrote this book is to scare the reader. This book is about a haunted house so obviously the author would want to put some sort of fear in the readers mind. The author also could have wrote this novel so people could relate to it. I think the whole part of the story of Xander and his family moving and how he misses his friends is very relatable and the author may have been in the same situation when he was younger. That is how he could give such a great description of how this felt.
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