English Essay
Whistle and I’ll come to you
Susan Hill draws upon her knowledge of MR James’s short story ‘whistle and I’ll come’. She chooses the same main character as James. Both kipps and parkins are men of a kind. They are both logical thinkers who at the beginning of both stories are totally dismissive of the supernatural. To them, what cannot be explained, cannot be believed. In addition both have travelled form the familiarity of their homes to a new setting, which in both cases is by the shore. The main characters are typically Victorian middle class men, both professionals and both educated. They both work with measurement with parkins its science whilst with kipps it is numbers and accounts. From the readers perspective when these men begin to accept that ghosts exist then it makes ghosts more credible. The men talk in lengthy sentences and are not given to flights of fancy. Hill also uses the title of this short story as a chapter heading in her book. On both occasions the main character whistles and the unexpected happens. With parkins it is the metal whistle found on the beach which is used whistle kipps recalls spider, the dog. Ghosts appear in the windows of Eel marsh house and parkins guest house. They are on the first floor and in bedrooms on both occasions. Susan hill was obviously attracted to James’s idea of the ghost watching the main character and plotting against them.
Bleak House
In the first chapter of bleak house Charles dickens repeated the word fog you can tell that Susan hill has read bleak house because in the first paragraph of her book the woman in black she also uses the word fog a lot. Unlike most writers of the modern age Susan hill went back to writing like Victorians one of the most famous Victorian writers is Charles dickens she wrote long sentences with lots of punctuation just like Charles dickens. In bleak house it is set by the sea and it is very marshy because of that, and Susan hill copied that setting off Charles dickens also
Susan Hill draws upon her knowledge of MR James’s short story ‘whistle and I’ll come’. She chooses the same main character as James. Both kipps and parkins are men of a kind. They are both logical thinkers who at the beginning of both stories are totally dismissive of the supernatural. To them, what cannot be explained, cannot be believed. In addition both have travelled form the familiarity of their homes to a new setting, which in both cases is by the shore. The main characters are typically Victorian middle class men, both professionals and both educated. They both work with measurement with parkins its science whilst with kipps it is numbers and accounts. From the readers perspective when these men begin to accept that ghosts exist then it makes ghosts more credible. The men talk in lengthy sentences and are not given to flights of fancy. Hill also uses the title of this short story as a chapter heading in her book. On both occasions the main character whistles and the unexpected happens. With parkins it is the metal whistle found on the beach which is used whistle kipps recalls spider, the dog. Ghosts appear in the windows of Eel marsh house and parkins guest house. They are on the first floor and in bedrooms on both occasions. Susan hill was obviously attracted to James’s idea of the ghost watching the main character and plotting against them.
Bleak House
In the first chapter of bleak house Charles dickens repeated the word fog you can tell that Susan hill has read bleak house because in the first paragraph of her book the woman in black she also uses the word fog a lot. Unlike most writers of the modern age Susan hill went back to writing like Victorians one of the most famous Victorian writers is Charles dickens she wrote long sentences with lots of punctuation just like Charles dickens. In bleak house it is set by the sea and it is very marshy because of that, and Susan hill copied that setting off Charles dickens also