Liv Atterson
Bio
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Liv Atterson is a fiction writer, living in Indiana, with her cat, and ever-growing collection of books.
She plans to someday move to Washington State and work in a bookstore.
pronouns: she/her/hers
Stories (21/0)
Washington Irving and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Ivring and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow part one: setting and time period Ivring was a writer who wanted to bring folklore and fairy tales to the real world. He wanted to us to feel as if this was a legend that had truly happened in some forgotten little town full of sleepwalking people. Its is in this tiny town that a ghost lurks at night, riding down dirt roads and past new churches into the unknown wilderness that lie before the residents of Sleepy Hollow.
By Liv Atterson4 years ago in Horror
The Beating Heart of a Dead Man
Unreliable Narrator Analysis The Tell-Tale Heart (Poe, 1843) The Beating Heart of a Dead Man Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most famous horror writers of all time. Even after his untimely death in 1849 his work gained even more popularity and is widely read, almost 200 years later. One of Poe's most famous short horror stories, and his shortest is "The Tell-Tale Heart" published in 1843. It tells the story of a man who lives with an old man and becomes obsessed with the old man's eye that he plots to kill him in his sleep. "The Tell-Tale Heart" opens with this line: "True!--nervous--very, very dreadfully nervous I have been, and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses--not destroyed--not dulled them. Above all was my sense of hearing acute. (Poe, 1186)" Throughout this reading, I wondered if the narrator is truly unreliable because he is insane or perhaps mentally ill and it is the sickness doing this to him?
By Liv Atterson4 years ago in Horror
A Single Green Light
A Single Green Light The Great Gatsby (1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald) by Liv Atterson Francis Scott Fitzgerald is one of the greatest American authors to ever live. His works have sold millions of copies and still do almost one-hundred years later. Mostly known for his book The Great Gatsby, a book that is not even 200 pages, is one of the most celebrated works in American literature. This story is told during the summer of 1922 and focuses on the life of Jay Gatsby--a self-made millionaire, who lives next door to our narrator Nick Carraway. With Fitzgerald's novel's known to hold an abundance of symbolism, one of the most iconic symbols being the green light. Is the light at the end of Daisy's dock a symbol of wealth or is it a symbol of desire for Daisy's herself? When readers first see Gatsby he is fixated on the green light and as his relationship with daisy slowly evolves, the connection of Daisy and the green light slowly becomes stronger.
By Liv Atterson4 years ago in Humans