The Fall of The House of Usher

Notes
1. The speaker talks about the melancholy House of Usher
  1. The speaker further describes the House of Usher that make the setting have a chilling sad atmosphere
2. The speaker decides to stay in the gloomy mansion
  1. Roderick Usher is a owner of this mansion
    1. Usher had sent a letter to the speaker and asked him to come see him because he was ill
      1. The speaker complied with the letter
        The Usher family had little variation and had one line of descent
        This leads the speaker to believe that this is the reason behind his illness
        The speaker says that he starts learning parts of Roderick's mental state at intervals
        Inside the mansion the speaker finds it creepy
        Roderick's senses are heightened and seems scared of his own home
        Roderick's sister is sick from an unknown disease and has lost control of a limb
        Roderick's sister Madeline dies from the sickness and he keeps her body so the doctors wouldn't experiment with her
        One night the Roderick goes to stay with the speaker
        They see some mist that Roderick explains isn't very uncommon
        Roderick and the speaker hears strange noises and Roderick believe them to be Madeline coming out of her grave
        Roderick is killed and the speaker flees
        The Usher Family has also never been a family that has fluorished
Vocab
1. Desolate
  1. deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness.
2. Bleak
  1. charmless and inhospitable; dreary
  2. Sojourn
    1. A temporary stay
    2. Proprietor
      1. the owner of a business, or a holder of property
      2. Dilapidation
        The state or process of falling into decay or being in disrepair.
        Phantasmagoric
        A form of horror theater
        Palpable
        So intense as to seem almost tangible

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