My 3rd paper is going to discuss the short story “The Fall of The House of Usher”.  This paper is going to have a couple of concepts from a short story and for each concept there will also be two sources that will help the reader see the concept or the word in a different way or maybe even have a different meaning, that will ultimately let me either understand the story better or interpret a very different way.  The first concept in this story is about how everything in the story is so anomalous, ranging from the characters and the plots and house everything in this story is very different from an original or normal story.  You have probably never heard of any stories that have weird settings and is very odd like this story, it is different from most things you would read so it is a good thing that this word is in this paper so everyone can learn.  The research on this word will help people see all the different ways something or someone can be anomalous.  The second concept in this story is on a part in the story when it is talking about the shadows of some figures moving to a discordant tune.  So the word for this concept was “discordant”.  This word means to not match the tune or be out of rhythm and after reading this whole short story, the feeling that the word “discordant” givers off is a perfect word to interpret and break down because it seems that the whole short story could fall under “discordant”.  The third concept in this story is the word “hysteria” it can refer to a sickness or even the way that you are feeling.  This word will be perfect to break down and dig deep to uncover all the different ways of interpreting it.  After you read from the sources on this concept you will see that this word does not only deal with motion or singing but deals with lots of other things.

The first word that was said that the paper was going to use to get sources and break the story down is found in the story when the narrator is trying to help Roderick feel better during the thunder storm by sitting with him and reading poetry and books with him.  The word “anomalies” is used while explaining the different things that come with the mental sickness that Roderick has.  This word is used in this story once or twice and it has a very important meaning for this story.  It is very important in this story because knowing all the things that this word can mean will show us everything that it means to have anomalies with your sickness.  If the reader does not understand the word “anomalies” then they will just have to guess what it means, so they should know what the word means and have a couple of other interpretations on the word also so they can see that it could mean a couple of other things and not only the way that it is interpreted.  The word “anomaly” which is the singular version of anomalies, it means deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule.  This fits in very smoothly with the story because there is nothing in this story that is normal or “common”.  But there are lots of different ways to look at that word so there is lots of people that will take the word anomaly and think about a lot of other things in the story and think that is what it is referring to.

The first source that was found was on receiving surgery for orofacial anomalies.  By reading the items this this article you can get more of a grasp of the meaning of the word and see how it can be used in different ways, and also see how other people use it and how many things the word can be used for.  This source first shows all the abnormalities dealing with this subject and how they are related to orofacial surgery.  It shows how all these things are anomalies and how they stand out.  It tells a lot of different information on how they will treat these anomalies.  It talks about how all these abnormalities fit in with each other and how all of them are all going off track from the so called “normal” and regular qualities of this world.  After reading all of this information on orofacial anomalies and all of the surgeries it is easier to actually fit the pieces together a lot better in the story and understand the scenes where the word is used so much better.  In the story it says that the narrator tries to read the book and calm his friend Roderick down but he did not know if it will word because of all the anomalies that comes with mental sickness.  You can read it and you can think to yourself that it could mean that Roderick has a couple of rare or special conditions from other mental patients or it could possibly mean that Roderick’s mental sickness is just different from everyone in general, it could mean lots of other things too.  You can also see why the narrator would even think what he thought because he is saying he does not know all the different things and ways to calm him down because with this mental sickness there are lots of different patterns and many different styles and techniques to calm or give comfort to a patient.  After reading all of the information on the orofacial and surgeries, you can see the word a lot different now, once you have found lots of other paths to go down for this particular word that really helps me be more creative while reading the stories and anything else.  This word can mean a very weird quality that someone or something has or even just someone in general, instead of just seeing it as being different from normal you can see it as being different because of something weird or odd is going on in your life or in your circumstances. You can use this word for lots of things and lots of situations it is interchangeable and sometimes can even be used in a good way  

My second source that is used is on racial disparities in congenital anomaly-related infant deaths.  While reading this second source you start to realize that this word is normally only used for something is quite odd and most people would not want to be categorized with anomaly in their name.  In this article they use this word to explain infant deaths which is very sad but it really speaks to the reader.  It again shows the reader how the word “anomaly” can range from being the weird guy in class or meaning there is something wrong with your body and it can cause death or a near death experience.   After really reading and getting to understand all the different ways of using this word “anomaly” it is a lot easier now to understand that when they use this word in the story it can only have a bad meaning and can only be interpreted as an outcast or something that nobody wants.  Reading all of this information in this source and really seeing how most people use this word and when they use this word makes me read the part in the short story and think to myself that when the narrator says “the history of mental disorder is full of similar anomalies”, that he is referring to weird uncommon people and people that have lots of problems or disabilities.

After reading these two sources on the word “anomaly” it allows you to be more aware of all the different ways to see that word and think about different ways and styles but they are often related in some way.  There are lots of ways in looking at the word “anomaly” it could be good bad or in the middle it all depends on where you standing in the situation and how you look at it.  Looking in to these articles can really help you get all the information that you might need to understand this word all the way so that you can now maybe read the story again and in your head you can see all the different ways that Roderick’s sickness can be either weird in a way that he does not have a lot of friends or maybe bad in a way that he could be on the verge of dying.  

The next word in the paper that is used for the second concept is the word “discordant”.  In the story it is used by saying vast forms that move fantastically to a discordant melody.  This word means lacking harmony or rhythm.  When you look at the short story and read how the word “discordant” is used in the section, you read it and picture a vast silhouette of a person in a window dancing very weird and to an odd tune that has no pattern or rhyme scheme it does not have any thing in it to make it normal it is pretty much just noise but the figure is still dancing and moving all around to the tune which makes it very odd.

The first source for this word is on twin pregnancies and discordant growth.  It talks about how the twin babies are not on the same growing path.  One of the twin babies could be growing faster or slower than the other.  This source gives the reader the same overall meaning that the first source already had on this word or concept by just reading the story, but this passage does expand your thoughts on how the word can be used.  It is not only a word to use for dancing or singing out of harmony or rhythm.  The paper said that this passage has the same overall meaning because like it said the way you are looking at the word “discordant” in the story it looks like it is talking about somebody dancing with no rhythm or harmony so dancing weird or out of the normal, and this passage on the twin babies is on the same thing dealing with twin babies that are not growing in the same rhythm.  Reading this passage can really show you that this word is very versatile, this word does not have to deal with physical movements out of rhythm or singing out of harmony it can deal with growth time or even differences in your growth time with your siblings or older family members.

The second source of this word is on drinking problems in midlife of two twins.  This source talks about how one of the twins can go through lots of drinking problems or drug problems and the other one of the twins can be perfectly fine without none of these troubles.  This passage shows the reader that not only can growth and physical movement be discordant but behavior and thoughts can be discordant also.  Knowing that being discordant can deal with your behavior or thoughts or even your words will effect how you will read the story because it can mean so many more things now that you now know the multiple meanings of this word.  It is important to know about all of the meanings of this word “discordant”, because if you only thought that the word meant to not be able to move with a rhythm or sing with the harmony then you would be lost in lots of situations.  

 After reading these two sources on the word “discordant” you should now be aware of all the different ways to see that word and think about different ways and styles but they are all often related in some way.  By looking in to these articles it really helps the reader to get all the information that they might have needed to understand this word all the way and see all the ways this word can be used so that you can now maybe read the story again and in your head you will see all the different ways that vast forms could be moving with the “discordant” melody.  The discordant melody could be an out of place melody that is on the scary side of music style or maybe it could be an unusual melody that is not normally heard by most people.

The third concept for this paper is going to be on the word “hysteria”.  This word is used in the short story when the narrator is in Roderick’s room and he is getting scared, then he hears the slightest footstep on the stairs and Roderick’s walks in the room with hilarity in his eyes and  an evidently restrained hysteria in his whole demeanor. 

The first source that is used for this concept of hysteria is called “A case of Hysteria”.  This source shows lots of things that branch off from hysteria.  This source shows who or what type of people this will normally effect.  It shows the things that it can do to you and lots of other things.  The one things that really stands out in this source is that it was stated that this is mostly a female thing and there was not anything about males or males being recorded with this sickness or problem.  Knowing about all the different things that hysteria can do to you is very important because it could change how you feel about the person.  For an example if a person is doing something weird or strange in public and you do not know why they are doing it then you might give them a crazy look or go up to them and tell them to stop, but if you see someone doing those same things in public and you knew that they had a special condition then you would not feel the same way.  You might feel sorry for them or might just ignore it or maybe even help them out. It all depends on if you know what is wrong with them and what it affects with the person.

The second source that is used in this paper is written on a story about a man with a case of “pendulum spasms” Psychogenic movement disorder considered as male hysteria.  This source really focuses in on how having pendulum spasms makes you move uncontrollably and in a very weird style that cannot be determined easily.  Also according to this source having hysteria as a male was a very odd case.  They had to run test and try and take photos of this man because they had never seen a man with hysteria before.  They also examined his body and his brain because the case was so weird.  While reading all of this information on this guy who had hysteria is very weird because even in the other source it was very unnatural for a man to have hysteria so this source confirmed what was said in the last source.  Seeing how the doctors and the photographers were acting toward this guy with the case of hysteria shows the reader how serious this was too because they are doing so many test and taking pictures and watching the guy so close because they really want to find out how he has hysteria or maybe he had something else that they had not discovered but were trying to find.

After reading both these sources on this word it will make the reader feel a lot more knowledgeable about the word know.  It is shocking that all the things that were found out, because lots of people do not know that most girls had hysteria and it was not that many guys.  It is also shocking how the doctors and the photographers were freaking out when they found out about the guy having hysteria.  This is a big part of the paper because it shows everyone how people really felt about the case of hysteria and how they felt when a guy got a case of it.  When you go back and read that part of the short story now it shows that Roderick has a terrible case of hysteria which is very rare and also weird.  You will also now understand why he was trying to hide it or “restrain” it because it was a very odd case of a sickness, so he tried to slow it down as much as he could.  You should know understand how he can have a “restrained hysteria to his demeanor” because it is pretty much saying that everything about him showed that he had the sickness but he still tried to restrain it and hold it back and be a normal person.
