One of the passages that I can\u2019t seem to get out of my head is the description of the mansion on page 8. The first thing that I noticed was that it was a paragraph-long sentence. Braddon thought that it was necessary to take up this much room on a page in one sentence describing this place. Definitely something to be noted. This led me to believe that this is a critical point in the book, and not just because it was describing the main setting of the story. When I read this passage I felt like Braddon was trying to let us in on a secret. A phrase that caught my eye was, \u201c\u2026a house in which you incontinently lost yourself if ever you were so rash as to go about it alone.\u201d (Braddon 8). In this phrase, I got the sense that there was just something different about the mansion. But then I thought, maybe she wasn\u2019t talking about the mansion. Maybe she was foreshadowing about an incident later to be explained, where someone wandered the house alone and something happened to them. In this incredible amount of detail, she uses mysterious words like, \u201cincontinently,\u201d \u201crash,\u201d and \u201cchambers.\u201d I brought up \u201cchambers\u201d because it sounds more mysterious and secretive than, \u201croom.\u201d All these words lead me to believe that this place is just plain creepy! No wonder it is the setting for a mystery novel. In a sense, this passage sets up the entire novel. It sets the tone for a mysterious, secretive, and sensational story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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