Point of View Study

Vincent

          I am a 7 year old boy named Vincent Malloy. The dark entities of my imagination drive me, Edgar Allen Poe satisfies my hunger for horror and Vincent Price is the one thought that will always help get me through the day from the moment my morning eyes open. He really is my inspiration.
       
           Other kids play and dream of delicious sweets whereas I spend time plotting my family's end. But of course, my family doesn't see me that way. They see me as plain old Vincent, young, polite, considerate and "normal". Normal kids fly around with tied on capes pretending to be a superhero, I pretend to be famous horror figure, Vincent Price.
       
          I spend time experimenting, inventing and reading. I experimented on my dog to try to make him a living dead being, HA it didn't work out. I invent disfigured toys and I read horror genres. There was this one time I read a passage from Edgar Allen Poe's works that said that he buried his mother. With my stubborn curiosity, I couldn't simply just ignore what I just read so I dug into the Earth to see if it was true. It was only then when I realized that it was my mother's flower bed.

          My mother scolds me occasionally for being the way I am. With the loneliness I feel, friends won't make the pain ease up, my imagination is my only escape away from this pain. There's a difference between being abnormal and misunderstood, my mother obviously discards misunderstanding and claims me her own son, abnormal. She doesn't understand what it feels like to feel...alone.          

Internal vs. External Conflict

Tell-Tale Heart

          The internal conflict of story is the narrator's battle between skill and insanity, his schizophrenia and psychosis. The narrator describes the old man to be loving, kind and that old man never did him wrong. But he believes that he must end the old man's life simply because the old man's "evil eye" disturbed him. Eventually he ends the old man's life and while being questioned by the police, his guilt overcame his joy so greatly he was driven to confess and even expose where he buried the old man.

          The external conflict of the story is the police arriving at the old man's house because a nearby neighbor heard a the old man scream. The narrator plays it cool throughout the whole investigation but seems to hear a loud noise that no one else seems to hear except him. Eventually, to end the ruckus inside his head, he bashes his chair to the floorboards, exposing where he hid the old man's body and confesses.

          One of the lessons I learned is that killing a person, whether it was the right thing or not, it will still affect you, unless you have no humanity. In this case, killing the old man, filled up the old man with guilt. “See, rage is a really powerful feeling. But guilt… take it from me, guilt will destroy you." -Stefan Salvatore of The Vampire Diaries.
         

Mastering Narration

          ALMA

          One snowy day in a what appears to be a secluded city, a young girl named Alma was walking down an alley. In the alley, there was a shop and lots of walls. Among those walls there was one where there was names written on it. The shop had windows that arranged into a menacing face but the dolls in the shop drew attention from it. The wall of names was spotted by Alma and without hesitation she added her name to the wall as well.

          After writing her name on the wall, Alma turned around to see a doll in a shop, the shop with the menacing face. Enchanted by the doll in the shop, Alma walked towards the shop's window to have a closer look. Surprised, that the doll looked like her and was wearing the exact same outfit, she looked again to confirm, only to see the doll gone.

          Alma looked through the window to see the doll standing on a table. She then attempted to open the door to the shop but failed many times as the door refused to open. Convinced that the door wasn't going to open she began to walk away, but just as she was about to, the door opened. With glee Alma entered the store, unaware that the door behind her was slowly closing.

          While walking towards the table, she stumbled upon another doll, a boy riding a windup bicycle on it's side. She set the doll on the bicycle upright then the doll began to head for the open door on it's windup bike, but the door closed before the doll could escape. Alma returned to the table to see the doll disappear again.

          Determined to have the doll as her own she frantically began to look for it. Alma then spotted it on a shelf with other dolls. As she began walking towards the shelf and eventually climbing it, the dolls on the shelf remained motionless except for their eyes which appeared to be fixed on Alma who remains unaware of their wandering eyes.

          As the dolls were watching Alma, who was on her toes stretching to reach the doll, finally touched the doll and suddenly felt a rushing surge. Alma woke up, confused why her vision is from a high view and why she was unable to speak or move. Realization began to take over Alma as she sees herself surrounded by dolls who also have suffered the same fate she has, having their spirits transferred to their dolls.

          A squeaking like sound came from the floor of the shop. Alma and the other dolls watched with their eyes to see another doll emerge from the floor. The doll had red hair and was wearing a red dress. The doll was then displayed by the window, waiting for it's next victim.

Scary Legend

Kuchisake-Onna

          This legend is about a woman seen at night and is described having long black hair, a white long white dress and a facial mask concealing only her mouth. Behind the mask, her mouth is slit from ear to ear hence her name Kuchisake-Onna meaning "slit-mouthed woman" in Japanese. The legend is set in Japan during the Sengoku period. A samurai scarred his wife's mouth after finding out she had an affair. She died in the grip of extreme emotional pain and anger thus the birth of an unrested spirit. Let's give Kuchisake-Onna a nickname, KO, because Kuchisake-Onna is a mouthful...ahaaa see what I did there?
       
          According to legend, KO comes at night. She approaches people asking them, "Am I beautiful?" then she removes her mask to show them her mouth. If the questioned person replies no, KO will cut that person in half with a pair of scissors she carries with her. If the questioned person replies yes, KO will cut that person's mouth like hers and will say, "Thank You, now you're beautiful too." If you try to run away from KO she'll just reappear in front of you again. In some other versions of the legends, it's possible to escape from KO. For an example, you can throw candy at her which will keep her distracted hopefully enough for you to run. Another example is by confusing KO, answer her question with another question.

         There was this one reporting in Korea, where a lady wearing a facial mask was chasing children. During the chase, she was accidentally ran over by a car and the collision caused her mouth to be slit from ear to ear. I don't know how getting ran over by a car can cause your mouth to be slit from ear to ear. Maybe the car had spikes or something. Jeez KO you shouldn't of had cheated on your husband.