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By: Adam Ryan, Alex Harte, Alexis Stanton, Andrew Leetham, Connie Wang, Emmy Davies, and Luke Huckvale

The Fall of the House of Usher

Exposition

• A visitor gets an urgent letter from his sick friend, Roderick Usher to come to his home at once. When he arrives at the mansion, he has a creepy feeling, and notices a strange vapor surrounding the area.

Rising Action

• The visitor finds that the urgency in the letter was because of a sickness which has come upon Usher and his sister, Lady Madeline. Lady Madeline's condition worsens, and she dies, leaving Usher in a disheartened state.

Climax• The visitor and Usher were reading a book one

stormy night, a few days after the burial of Lady Madeline, when the book's contents seemed to become real all about them. There is a crazed moment with Usher, proclaiming that they have buried Lady Madeline living. Outside the door, is the late Lady Madeline, bloodied, dazed, and showing clear signs of a struggle, probably from removing herself from the coffin.

Falling Action

• Lady Madeline absentmindedly collapses on top of Usher, causing death upon the both of them. The visitor flees the House of Usher in a terrified, aghast state into the treacherous storm of the night.

Resolution

• The visitor looks back at the daunting House of Usher, just in time to se a bolt of lighting strike it, causing it to collapse, just as it's inhabitants had. The sickly vapor, still clinging to the air, covered the last remains of the house, hiding any trace of it's evil.

Mood• The mood of the story is somewhat gothic. Edgar Allen

Poe used imagery in describing this to us, saying, "A faintly luminous and distinctly visible gaseous, and exaltation which hung about, and enshrouded the mansion." This quote shows the somewhat creepy part of the story, and how the house falls down and the mist covers the site completely. He also uses Subjects of Horror and Supernatural when saying, "There was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of bitter struggle." This shows another spine-tingling point in the story. In conclusion, the mood is, in fact, impacted by the rest of the story.

Tone

• Edgar Allen Poe tells the story in an eerie vagueness, and gives a sense of no space, or claustrophobia to both the characters and the readers. The house itself also seems to have trapped the characters until it's fall at the end of the story.

Credits!• Adam Ryan: Character "Usher", Writer.

• Connie Wang: Writer, Character "House".

• Andrew Leetham: Character "Butler", Animations.

• Emmy Davies: Character "Narrator", Tone Writer.

• Luke Huckvale: Character "Visitor", Mood Writer.

• Alexis Stanton: Character "Lady Madeline", Plot Graph Designer.

• Alex Harte: Presentation Writer/Editor, Computer Operations.