Analysis Of Where Is Here 'By Joyce Carol Oates' Dream Collector, And The Raven

When I was home alone for a week, I spent most of the nights staying up playing video games. In the middle of the night, around 2 am, I dozed off for about thirty minutes and woke up to my dogs barking. So I looked to my left out the window at the street and there was a man or boy standing outside in the driveway. So I immediately set the alarm, but after I set the alarm and went to see if was he still there, he wasn’t. So after that I stayed up for the rest of the night, until one of my siblings came home. Transformation obviously creates fear because the settings can go from a nice, pleasant setting immediately to an alarming, gloomy, and frightening setting. This can be seen in the following three stories as well. Oates's “Where is Here”, Arthur Tress’ “Dream Collector”, and Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” use transformations to make their stories more suspenseful and frightening to the reader.
This is effective because it causes readers to questions their own experiences of transformations and whether they had ever experienced this before. One example is when, “For years they had lived without incident in their house in a quiet residential neighborhood… ” (69). In contrast to, “He watched the stranger walk away- out to the sidewalk, out to the street, disappearing into darkness…” (76). This illustrates a change in the setting because before it describes a peaceful and quiet neighborhood but after the visit from the stranger the setting starts to change into a dark and eerie setting. Therefore, this transformation was effective because as the story progressed and changed themes, so did the parents and the entire