The Birds Emilee Guerra The short story The Birds by Daphne DuMaurier and the movie that was directed by Alfred Hitchcock also called The Birds are both very good and suspenseful Both story and film kept me on the edge of my seat The methods of creating suspense in the movie and the short story are varied yet effective The silence parts in this film were really suspenseful When Lydia goes to the Fawcett farm you expect noise but there isnt any As she walks down the hallway no music is playing n
William Faulkners A Rose for Emily A Gothic Horror Tale William Faulkner is widely considered to be one of the great American authors of the twentieth century Although his greatest works are identified with a particular region and time Mississippi in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the themes he explores are universal He was also an extremely accomplished writer in a technical sense Novels such as The Sound and the Fury and Absalom Absalom feature bold experimentation with shi
The Birds was originally a short story written by Daphne DuMaurier and was released to the public in 1952 It was then made into a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963 The short story is about Nat Hocken a farmer that lives with his family on the coast of England The movie is about Melanie Daniels and the Brenner family and it is set in the fishing town of Bodega Bay in the United States In both the short story and the movie the characters get attacked by the birds Although there are diffe