House Taken Over Research Paper
“House Taken Over” Explanatory Essay
Your imagination is very powerful and can take you to crazy places. It creates experiences that are so bizarre, yet seem so realistic. This is seen in the story “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortázar. People have fears, such as being scared of clowns, but many people are most afraid of the things they cannot see, or the unknown.
Our imagination takes our mind to crazy places and sometimes even affects our thought process and reasoning. In The “House Taken Over”, sounds are heard from the back of the house and the brother says, “‘I had to shut the door to the passage. They’ve taken over the back part” (Cortázar pg 40). Instead of facing their fears the brother and the sister just shut off the doors to the back part of the house and let their fears take it over. They do not know what those sounds are, but they let their imagination turn the sounds into …show more content…
Whenever I watch a horror movie at night time, it is always hard for me to be able to fall asleep. Though I know I am safe in my bed, my imaginations keeps picturing situations in which someone in that horror movie I just watched is going to pop up in my room. In those situations my imagination becomes so powerful that it prevents me from having a good night's sleep. It makes me feel like there is a lack of security in my house when I know there is not.
Our imagination can make us do things so unreasonable and absurd at times. In “House Taken Over”, the characters became so scared of something they could not even see that they let their imagination literally take over their house: “Before we left, I felt terrible; I locked the front door up tight and tossed the key down the sewer. It wouldn’t do to have some poor devil decide to go in and rob the house, at that hour and with the house taken over” (Cortázar pg 42). Their imagination turned just some scary noises into something so scary that they decided to leave their
Your imagination is very powerful and can take you to crazy places. It creates experiences that are so bizarre, yet seem so realistic. This is seen in the story “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortázar. People have fears, such as being scared of clowns, but many people are most afraid of the things they cannot see, or the unknown.
Our imagination takes our mind to crazy places and sometimes even affects our thought process and reasoning. In The “House Taken Over”, sounds are heard from the back of the house and the brother says, “‘I had to shut the door to the passage. They’ve taken over the back part” (Cortázar pg 40). Instead of facing their fears the brother and the sister just shut off the doors to the back part of the house and let their fears take it over. They do not know what those sounds are, but they let their imagination turn the sounds into …show more content…
Whenever I watch a horror movie at night time, it is always hard for me to be able to fall asleep. Though I know I am safe in my bed, my imaginations keeps picturing situations in which someone in that horror movie I just watched is going to pop up in my room. In those situations my imagination becomes so powerful that it prevents me from having a good night's sleep. It makes me feel like there is a lack of security in my house when I know there is not.
Our imagination can make us do things so unreasonable and absurd at times. In “House Taken Over”, the characters became so scared of something they could not even see that they let their imagination literally take over their house: “Before we left, I felt terrible; I locked the front door up tight and tossed the key down the sewer. It wouldn’t do to have some poor devil decide to go in and rob the house, at that hour and with the house taken over” (Cortázar pg 42). Their imagination turned just some scary noises into something so scary that they decided to leave their