"Walls turn flexible, gothic windows wink, a wraith morphs into the bedsheets and every face carved into the woodwork stands a chance of coming alive; don't even ask about the gryphon statues lining the humongous grand staircase"(Maslin, Janet)

-The book doesn't mention any parts of the house doing this and the movie does a good job with the graphics and adding a little more spice to the movie. so I agree with the emphasis on the graphics and effects that are in the movie.

"Things really do go bump in the night"(Maslin, Janet)

-This is a really good way to explain the movie because the director really does make it seem that the house is haunted and that things really do happen at night. The biggest scares happen only at night.
"Especially notable is the work of Phil Tippett and Craig Hayes, visual effects supervisors from 'Jurassic Park,'"(Maslin, Janet)

-The directors and the special effects supervisors were a good reason why the movie was a success. They make the movie what it is and made it interesting and i agree that the staff did do a good job in making this movie and were the reason for the success.

Maslin, Janet (http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/23/movies/film-review-things-that-go-bump-and-worse-in-the-night.html?scp=2&sq=haunting%20of%20hill%20house%20film%20review&st=cse)

The Haunting of Hill House #34-66

Summary: Now Eleanor finally gets the courage to step into Hill House and Mrs. Dudley takes her to her room where she will be staying. The more Eleanor stays and looks and examines the house the more she wants to leave and get out.Then Mrs. Dudley tells Eleanor that she leaves before dusk comes and that she wont be available after that and there would be no one that can help her at night which is kind of sketchy. Eleanor then gets unpacked in a rush and furiously and then she meets Theodora and where they then get tho see the Green Room. Then Theodora and Eleanor walk around the house and wonder what they could do while being there at the house. Then Theodora starts asking Eleanor a bunch of questions and they both come to the conclusion that they were indeed cousins which was unexpected at all. Then while being out in the hills Eleanor and Theodora meet Luke and they later come into the house and meet the Dr. Montague before dinner. Dr. Montague has a map of the house so he brings the people to the dining room but also warns them that the house can be very tricky. The doctor then tells them that the plan or the next day is to explore the house and do whatever they please for the day. Then they go into talking about the Hill House and its heirs and explains that possibly Mrs. Dudley is planning to get rid of Luke to inherit all of the house and its riches.

Quote: "There were blue dimity curtains over the two windows... and a blue figured rug on the floor, and a blue spread on the bed and the bed and a blue quilt at the foot. The walls, dark woodwork to shoulder height, were bluefigured paper above, with a design of tiny blue flowers," (Jackson 40)

Reaction: This is when Eleanor enters what is called the "Blue room" and its is not too descriptive but it says so much about the room that you can picture it. She is stating all of these blue colored accessories and things that make the room Blue. This also justifies the name of why it is called the blue room.

The Haunting of Hill House #1-33

Summary: The beginning of the book talks about Hill House and how it isn't a very delightful place and its been at the hill for 80 years. Then we are introduced to Dr. Montague who is a doctor of philosophy and has a degree in anthropology. he invited some people to Hill House for him to observe everything thats been going on at Hill House through the stories he's heard. The we meet the characters Eleanor Vance who had a hard life from her, her sister and her mother losing their home. Theodora who was a very down to earth and very enthusiastic person who wore soft colors and Dr. Montague was impressed by her so he invited her. And Luke Sanderson whose aunt was the owner of Hill House and he was the next heir to the house itself. Then when Elanor gets to the house she meets the caretaker Mrs. Dudley but then Eleanor is afraid to even step into the house.

Quote: "NO LIVE organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality" (Jackson 3)

Reaction: This is one of those quotes that blows your mind because its the first sentence of the book, it made me stop for a bit and reread it and got me hooked on the book. Because it says that no living thing can live a sane life without having something that they can question to be real or not a.k.a ghosts.

Note: (I understand that these posts are very late, I had gotten the book the day of and i had to catch up on the reading)

Rule of the Bone #141-175

Summary: Now Bone is riding with the guy and he tells him to hide the money since hes running a show and doesn't want to give the people the money beforehand especially since they were black. Then as their there the group gets into it with the guy and ask for the money and as that happens bone tries to escape with froggy but froggy doesn't seem like she wants to go. Then the Adirondack Iron, or whats left of them, fight the group now and bone convinces froggy to go and they finally head out. Now they head back to the school bus that Russ showed bone last time and to their surprise there was a new guy there who was Jamaican and his name was I-man. He gets to know him and his story and how he to to the bus and what he wants to do: I-man was a farmer worker and since he was a Rasta he didn't like anything unnatural so he left and he now wants to make it back to Jamaica without the government catching him since he has no documents. Then they all live together and Froggy opens up more and tells bone her mom's name and he wants to call her and let her know she has her daughter. After he calls her, her mother thinks its a joke then its serious and she finalizes to bring her home and bone does that and promises to buy her a ticket home.

Quote: "every honest man was an outlaw" (Banks 156)

Reaction: This quote is a very powerful quote given by I-man on the bus while bone and him were talking about slavery. what i take from this quote is that every person who stood up for what they believed in were criminals in society back then in racist and slavery times.

Rule of the Bone #109-140

Summary: After Russ and Chappie got their tattoos and changed their names they looked for a place to stay. Russ had an uncle who owns a house that they never stay at but check up on from time to time. They sneak into the house and stay there for a little bit and live off of everything they had at the house. They ate spaghetti daily and never washed any dishes and never cleaned up, didn't have much to do but watch TV and some board games. One day they found Joints in the house and split it up since they felt they needed some but Chappie, or bone, found a gun and didn't tell Russ about it also. After a while they started arguing with each other and not seeing each other and then Russ decides to leave. He decides to go back to his aunts house, and when he tells Bone about this he's hurt and cries a little. After Russ leaves Bone takes on his new identity by cutting his mohawk and taking off his earring and nose ring and he is comfortable with it and accepts it. Then he decides to go to Albany so he starts to hitch hike but the driver that picks him up was the same guy he met at the mall that he ran away from. Instead of going to Albany now he's going to Plattsburgh with him, and throughout the ride he keeps it cool and doesn't do anything that will push the guy.

Quote:"I took out my nose ring for the first time in a year and my earrings too and laid them on the counter. for a second it felt funny like I was going to sneeze but then it felt more normal than ever." (Banks 130)

Reaction: This is a very powerful quote after Chappie, who changed his name to bone, now is by himself after Russ abandoned him and left. He goes to the bathroom of Russ' uncles' house and makes a new identity of himself by taking off his earrings and nose ring and cutting off his mohawk and this all felt normal to him, which really meant that he's a new person now.

Rule of the Bone #109-140

Summary: After Russ and Chappie got their tattoos and changed their names they looked for a place to stay. Russ had an uncle who owns a house that they never stay at but check up on from time to time. They sneak into the house and stay there for a little bit and live off of everything they had at the house. They ate spaghetti daily and never washed any dishes and never cleaned up, didn't have much to do but watch TV and some board games. One day they found Joints in the house and split it up since they felt they needed some but Chappie, or bone, found a gun and didn't tell Russ about it also. After a while they started arguing with each other and not seeing each other and then Russ decides to leave. He decides to go back to his aunts house, and when he tells Bone about this he's hurt and cries a little. After Russ leaves Bone takes on his new identity by cutting his mohawk and taking off his earring and nose ring and he is comfortable with it and accepts it. Then he decides to go to Albany so he starts to hitch hike but the driver that picks him up was the same guy he met at the mall that he ran away from. Instead of going to Albany now he's going to Plattsburgh with him, and throughout the ride he keeps it cool and doesn't do anything that will push the guy.

Quote:"I took out my nose ring for the first time in a year and my earrings too and laid them on the counter. for a second it felt funny like I was going to sneeze but then it felt more normal than ever." (Banks 130)

Reaction: This is a very powerful quote after Chappie, who changed his name to bone, now is by himself after Russ abandoned him and left. He goes to the bathroom of Russ' uncles' house and makes a new identity of himself by taking off his earrings and nose ring and cutting off his mohawk and this all felt normal to him, which really meant that he's a new person now.

Rule of the Bone #66-108

Summary: In these pages Russ comes up with the idea of stealing the stolen VCR's and computers from the bikers and make a profit from it with Chappie but he denies the offer and Russ does it on his own. At first Russ was successful  but when he was out one day Bruce (leader of the bikers) noticed that some were missing. Chappie didn't tell him that Russ did it but he did tell him that he didn't do it. Then he tied him up and locked him up in Russ' room and plotted what they were going to do next, after a while of banging his head on the window to get people's attention he gave up but started again when he saw Russ pull up and Russ came in to his surprise through the porch and in the window. Then the curtains caught fire and they fled quickly and after a while the flame grew throughout the whole house. After watching the flame they fled and stole a volunteer firemen's truck and planned to crash at this junkyard where there was this bus where they stayed with these brothers who dropped out of college named James and Richard who owned the bus. They sold the truck they stole to the brothers and decided to get a new tattoos and a cover art for Russ. Then they changes their names and identity, Russ changed it to Buck and due to Chappie's skull and bones tattoo he changed his name to Bone.

Quote: "They had hoses snaked all over the place and were shooting hard heavy streams of water into the fire but it was like the fire was alive and the water was its food that only made it grow larger and hungry for more" (Banks 82)

Reaction: This quote was explaining the moment when the house Russ and Chappie was living in with the bikers caught on fire and they had escaped and were watching from another yard. This is a STRONG quote that catches the imagery of the roaring fire and the firemen's efforts to put it out. "but it was like the fire was alive and the water was its food" this quote uses personification to show the imagery of the fire feeding off of the water being used to put it out and it continuing to grow and burn.