"The Red Room" and "Farthing House" are both ghost stories but stories written in different centuries. Compare and contrast the two stories paying close attention to the style, structure and language need.

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“The Red Room” and “Farthing House” are both ghost stories but stories written in different centuries. Compare and contrast the two stories paying close attention to the style, structure and language need.

In this essay I will be comparing and contrast How Susan Hill’s “Farthing House” and HG Wells “The Red Room” use different techniques to tell a conclusion. The two stories are from two different time period therefore there will be differences. Farthing House is from the 20th centaury and the red room is a pre 1914 stories.

The story by Susan Hill “Farthing House” gave me an expression as I first read the story. I thought that it’s weird and moving on towards confusing the reader but the genre within the first few paragraph is a women traveling back in time therefore it gave me a mysterious feeling.

The story “The Red Room” by HG Wells gave me a expression of tension and kept me captivated as this story was written to be read aloud. As you read this aloud the audiences have a spooky and mysterious feeling. The title suggests that it has something to do with a room that may have been a dangerous place or painted red.

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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 ...

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