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Friday, November 04, 2005

"Fall of the House of Usher" Imagery

Based on the list below or your awesome imagination, create two illustrations for "Usher" in your literature journal. Each illustrations should be colored and take up most of a single page in your journal.

Below is a list of suggestions for the "Usher" imagery assignment.
  • Roderick
  • the House and the lake
  • Madeline
  • Roderick's paintings or music
  • Madeline coming upstairs
  • the storm at the end
  • the silent servants
  • the narrator
  • Narrator reading the Ethelred story to Roderick
  • Roderick playing the guitar
  • Roderick's freak outs--before or after Madeline shows up
  • Roderick and Madeline dying together
  • House falling apart
  • Narrator running from the House
  • Madeline's first appearance in the story
  • Burying Madeline
  • How Madeline looks when she's dead
  • Madeline breaking out of the coffin
  • the window to the storm
  • the things that irritate Roderick's senses
  • the story of Ethelred
  • when the narrator first sees Roderick
  • Madeline dying
  • dungeon where Madeline is buried
  • the narrator's arrival and the countryside around the House
  • the interior of the House