Allison Flood’s article, “‘Textbook terror’: How the Hauntin…
Allison Flood’s article, “‘Textbook terror’: How the Haunting of Hill House rewrote horror’s rules,” presents the idea that “houses aren’t haunted—people are.” Given the readings and presentations that have dealt with a sense of haunting in one form or another, how do you reconcile this claim? Provide a few examples, from various sources, of how this might be true.
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Explain the significance of the following passage from Suzanne Berne’s “Ground Zero” in your own words: “Soon I was outside once more, joining the tide of people washing around the site. Later, as I huddled with a little crowd on the viewing platform, watching people scrawl their names or write ‘God Bless America’ on the plywood walls it occurred to me that a form of repopulation was taking effect, with so many visitors to this place, thousands of visitors, all of us coming to see the wide emptiness where so many were lost. And by the act of our visiting—whether we are motivated by curiosity or horror or reverence or grief, or by something confusing that combines them all—that space fills up again” (par. 20).
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