LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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he realizes he is dead and has to get back to the cemetery.
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he feels bad for waking up his parents in the middle of the night.
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he remembers he didn’t bring the 200 pounds with him.
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his father makes a final wish for him to be dead.
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Detailed explanation-1: -At the end of the story, Herbert stops knocking at the door because. he realizes he is dead and has to get back to the cemetery. he feels bad for waking up his parents in the middle of the night.
Detailed explanation-2: -Literally, Herbert died because he became entangled in the machinery, his body so mangled that Mr. White was able to identify his son only by examining his clothes.
Detailed explanation-3: -White’s final wish, the fact that the moment he found the paw on the floor, he “frantically breathed his third and last wish and the knocking ceased suddenly, ” implies that the father’s last wish was for his son to return to where he now belongs.
Detailed explanation-4: -White was scared because his son would be mutilated, and he was scared of what the negative part of the wish would be. The son was outside; he stopped knocking because Mr. White wished him away.
Detailed explanation-5: -He begs her not to let him in because he knows that is not really their son, it is just the corpse of their son. The torn up corpse of Herbert is outside of the house.