The "Weird"
stories always attract people, and I think it is because the mood from those
stories linger on people's minds.
I read The Snow Child and this story can tell
what's the mood of weird stories. The Count in the story just said he wished he
had a girl as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the bird's
feathers. However, the girl who the Count exactly wanted just showed up and
stood on the road. The story doesn't tell why she is there and how she was
created. In my opinion, this mood makes people curious and it could be why
people are attracted in the weird stories. In the end of The Snow Child, the girl picked a rose because the Countess wanted
to get rid of her. She pricked her finger on the rose's thorn and she was just
gone. Literally, she went nothing; There was nothing left of her but a feather
was dropped. I think this sentence could make readers think about who is the
girl.
Also, I read The Werewolf and this story was really
interesting to me. I thought about Red Riding Hood which is a fairy tale and I
guessed The Werewolf is based on that
tale but this story is really weird and horrible version. I was so shocked when
the child cut the wolf's fore-paw off, and shocked more when the fore-paw was no
longer a wolf's paw. If people don't know about this story and read at the
beginning, they would thought about Red Riding Hood like me, but at the end
they would be shocked. I think this could be one of attractions of
"weird" stories.
This movie is
not on the required movies list on course website, but I watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button because
I thought it could be very weird movie. The story of this movie is very fresh
and shocking. In the beginning, a baby who looks like an old man was born and
he grew up but not like normal people. The more time went by, the more he
became younger. The picture on above is Benjamin Button was young. I thought that people couldn't really imagine this weird
situation and The Curious Case of
Benjamin Button made it happen.
