American Literature / Unit 8 AML 0708 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
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The idea
A visitor arrives at a decaying mansion where Roderick Usher and his twin Madeline are the last of their line. Madeline is entombed, returns, and the house splits and sinks into the tarn. Building, family and bodies fail together.
In practice
A house and a family, collapsing at once.
Where people slip
The house is the family.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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