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The Man With
The Yellow Face
thriller
Anthony Horowitz is a modern (21 century)
English writer, born on April 5th, 1955 in London, England. He is
Anthony Horowitz known for writing children novelists and a screenwriter. He writes
multiple books about mystery and suspense. "The man with the
yellow face" is a modern or contemporary horror that is not Gothic
from the 19th century's genre.
It's influenced and based by the 19th century Gothic elements.
Part 1: Summary
The protagonist, his uncle and aunt were at the York station heading to London by train.
There was a photo booth at the deep end of platform 1, The protagonist, out of curiosity, went to try it;
he took 4 photos.
He was looking at his photos ,but the third photo wasn't the picture of him, it was a picture of an old
man with a yellow face; an ugly and peculiar looking old man; he got scared. He thought that the man
with the yellow face was coming after him, he was terrified of the man and refused to go to London, but
his uncle and aunt were not impressed by what he had experienced and still let the protagonist follow
them to London.
While on the train they were crossing green fields, weird sensations came to him, he felt if invisible
arms had reached down and pulled at him, then was a feeling as if the train was flying, the front of the
train slightly lifting off the tracts. Then it happened,everything happening and the world was spinning
around. The train hit something and sent it off the tracks, sending bags and things all over the place,
and something hit the protagonist's face, he just looks through an eye and sees the blurry seats.
There were some 'Maniacs" who through a pile of concrete on the tracts from a bridge.
That was all 30 years ago, and the protagonist sits and looking in the mirror. And the man with the
yellow face looks back.
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Part 1: Summary
Gothic conventions or
elements
Gothic literature is a kind of western popular literature, with terror, supernatural,
death and other symbolic elements, preferring dark and bleak scenes, and
gradually shaping as a novel genre in the middle and late 18th century. Gothic
novels flourished in the era when romanticism dominated, but it did not depict the
ideal social, political and moral concepts from the front, as the general romanticism
did, but explored deeply by revealing the evil of society and the dark side of human
nature. Over the past two hundred years, not only popular writers have been keen
on the creation of Gothic literature, but also many first-rate British and American
poets and writers have created many popular Gothic stories and achieved high
artistic achievements. Gothic novels have thus moved from the "marginal position"
of popular novels to the mainstream, forming a prominent and unique Gothic
tradition.
The most
fantastic
moment
Literary device
Literary devices consists of, similes
(Comparing, e.g. as strong as a lion),
The Recommendation onomatopoeia (using sounds e.g. Bang,
Crack, Ding), alliteration (Same letter in the
first word and last e.g. Sweet birds Sang),
Personification(Giving human characteristics
to an object e.g. The stars winked in the night
sky). These are some of the literary devices,
they are used to enhance the detail, set the
tone, and can be used to create the
atmosphere.
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