Welcome back to my blog! This week I am comparing the two stories
“Zombie Attack” and “The Dionaea House.” In this blog the subject I will be comparing is point of view. Point of view being the eyes we see the story though whether it be our own, or a character in the story. I chose to do these two stories for their
similarities in posting styles. One is posted in short sentences over twitter while
the other is similar although it just uses longer posts through email. Both
of these stories use first person view. One is describing what it is like to survive
years in a zombie apocalypse, all the things we encounter, and witness, the
other describing the strange events that led up to a group of friend’s friend
shooting two people and then himself in a restaurant when it was completely against
his nature the previous years. With “Zombie Attack” I felt like if you read it backwards
and forwards it would still make sense. In fact, half way though I did and
noticed I thought that is still was readable. But with this blog, the short
tweets, along with skipped days, makes for large gaps. It doesn’t go into very
much detail. This increases the suspense and there is more confusion as to what
is going on. Things are escalating and since there are these gaps, its harder
for us to know exactly what is going on and why. It makes the reader work to
make sense of it and also makes our imagination run wild as it tries to fill in
those gaps. The ending is very short, and it’s clear that things have degraded into utter
cautious and everyone is just trying to survive with no conclusion whether they
live or die or not. The story leaves us hanging. "All the kids are dead. Every man for himself!"
As for The Dionaea house “I know how you feel. It’s hard not to think of the times he sat next to us at the table, smiling like a fool, rolling dice and moving his pieces around the board.” “That’s Andrew in a nutshell yeah, at least that’s how I remember him. He got on my nerves sometimes, but damn if he didn’t love being part of the gang.” We find out how he had to house sit for a family member for a few days and came back different. “Was that the start of his madness? Or whatever it is that drove him to shoot up a diner? Were we there to see him first lose his grip? Jesus, Eric, why the hell didn’t we say anything?” By using the first person narrative, the story grabs our attention by making it feel like we are actually the ones in the story witnessing/ seeing and feeling everything that is going on. It makes the story feel more personal.
As for The Dionaea house “I know how you feel. It’s hard not to think of the times he sat next to us at the table, smiling like a fool, rolling dice and moving his pieces around the board.” “That’s Andrew in a nutshell yeah, at least that’s how I remember him. He got on my nerves sometimes, but damn if he didn’t love being part of the gang.” We find out how he had to house sit for a family member for a few days and came back different. “Was that the start of his madness? Or whatever it is that drove him to shoot up a diner? Were we there to see him first lose his grip? Jesus, Eric, why the hell didn’t we say anything?” By using the first person narrative, the story grabs our attention by making it feel like we are actually the ones in the story witnessing/ seeing and feeling everything that is going on. It makes the story feel more personal.
Attack, Zombie. “Zombie
Attack (@Zombieattack).” Twitter, Twitter, 30 May 2014, twitter.com/zombieattack.
“The Dionaea House.” Creepypasta Wiki,
creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Dionaea_House.
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