The opening words of the story “I can assure you” creates a sense of diamond and assurance therefore I feel this story is to do with a mission.
The story has more than one voice therefore the audience should remember that some parts of the story may have someone else talking without you noticing.
The “Farthing House” story by Susan Hill gives us an impression of confusion and mystery therefore I feel uncomfortable to start reading from where some one is speaking without an introduction or narrator’s speech. But on the other hand “The Red Room” gives us an impression same as “Susan Hill” and the hostile impression gives the reader a more of a spook.
I like the opening of “The Red Room” because it gives me a more of the strongest impression between the two stories. “The Red Room” has a more of a mysterious feel because the author used the impression of tension as a character is willing to do something and he approached hostile and is trying to persuade him. “Well,” I said, “if I see anything tonight, I shall be so much the wiser. For I come to the business with an open mind.” I believe the effect on the reader is having an impact which is positive reaction towards the speech.
In “Farthing House “the narrator is not identifiable”, if the narrator is a male or female. The social context that the narrator may or is the character and has an aunt “ Addy” and lives 200miles from “Farthing House”.
The personality of the narrator suggests that the narrator is imaginative as he/she is thinking lying in hotel bed and is thinking about the past. “…………………………………………………………………………..” I think the narrator is the main actor who we have not found a name or a description of her. I think this because she is the person who is telling the story.
I think the narrator of “The Red Room” is the character as the writer uses the words “I said” “said the men” etc. “The Red Room” does give evidence if the narrator is a male, it does not give us an introduction to the situation. The personality of the narrator tells us that he is proud, thinks highly of his self.
“… it will take a very trainable short to tighten me.” The effect of the above quotation gives me (the reader) a strong confidence with in.
The situation presented in “Farthing House” gives the reader a suspense and a idea of what “Farthing House” may look like and how the environment maybe. “Farthing House” involves the reader and puts a reflection on the reader about a situation they may be in.
The narrator meets Aunt Addy and seems that Aunt Addy doesn’t have a main role to play as they brush over the conversation. This suggests the main plot or expression the reader is changing and may change totally and be something else.
The narrator is left alone in cedar room which may be haunted by ghost of a certain person who died in that particular place. This makes the reader wonder what the story is all about and what the course of her “guilt?” is.
In “The Red Room “ the situation is present as if the audience are not involve but the narrator uses the sounds of words to build the imagery. This involves the reader to read aloud to an audience to give that feeling of imagery.
The narrator thinks he is or belongs to a more modern theme than the old people. “They seemed to belong to another age, an older age, an age when things spiritual were different from this of ours,…” The effect of the quotation seems that the narrator is arrogant, narrow minded and stubborn
However the narrator sets out on his thought and his own mission. “. The long, draughty, subterranean passage was chilly and dusty, and my candles flared and made the shadows cower and quiver.” The narrator shows his salts as a hard tough and big headed person. The narrator gets parrnowned over.
The situation in “Farthing House” is brought to a conclusion with a finish to the mysterious case. As I started to read it was complicated to understand but you would not thought that the story would be a different ending or conclusion.