Can someone make my paragraph sound better and maybe add on to it. the question: is the house of usher truly a haunted place or is it only the imagination of those who are there ?

I believe it's just in the imagination of those who are there. The narrator never mentions anything specific or usual things like ghosts or monsters. The narrator himself is contradicting himself in the story so he might not even be reliable. Sometimes if a place seems
scary or haunted your mind will play tricks which is what I think started to happen. I think the narrator knew that Madeline was alive without knowing at the same time and knew the consequences if she was, so he was scared with guilt from that too. He slept in a room right above the vault where she was buried so he must have heard her banging and struggling to get out and instead of thinking she was alive he thought she was a ghost.

Read the paragraph from a student's literary essay comparing two different works (1) sandra cisneros's "mericans" is about a young american girl of mexican descent who is struggling to find her own cultural identity (2) cisneros illustrates this through a number of images and ideas. (3) for example, the speaker, micaela, calls her grandmother "awful," and seems to resent the woman's strict views and religious ideals. (4) the speaker also mentions how she and her brother emulate characters from popular american television programs when they play make-believe. (5) lastly, she describes physically standing outside her family's church, an act that symbolizes the fact that she feels like an outsider to mexican culture. (6) although micaela is of mexican descent, she seems to feel a stronger connection to the united states. this paragraph supports the idea that micaela wishes her heritage was different because she has difficulty relating to her grandmother. wants to find her own unique identity that is separate from her brother and her grandmother will never accept her mexican roots because of her feelings toward her grandmother identifies with her mexican heritage in a different way than her grandmother mark this and return save and exit next submit