Imagery

Industrialization- Ernest Gains quick intent to spare his ancestral harvested land from the growing technology (tractors, bush hogs, grinder…). Every year on all saints day he invites people to come to the property and help groom it. Everyone, together, with their bare hands and hand tools, working to clean up the land just like the people who are resting beneath them once did.

Industrialization- the city vs. the country. Buildings built out of steel and metal. Twisting and winding with rotating belts. Gears cranking, nuts and bolts tightening. Pumping black, brown, and grey smoke into the air. There is work to be done within the buildings, to keep the smoke pumping, but less work needed to be done because of the pumping.

                -excitement because of the production rate and value…

                -poverty from the lack of man power needed now because of the advanced technology…

                               -if only they could see the technology we have now…they would really be afraid…

The city and country started with both production buildings. Eventually larger buildings, stores, homes, apartments, were built in the places where shipping and receiving were most abundant and easiest. Thus creating a city and leaving the country to be scarce and sound.

Plantation homes/mansions- every family has its secrets…sounds like the start of a southern gothic novel. Plantation homes and antique mansions are some of the most beautiful sites and current homes to some people, even though they can more than likely have a terrifying past. Some people find a non-insulated, ten bed room home, with original hard wood floors, and a servant’s quarter beautifully antique. This person feels the liveliness of the house and enjoys the cohesive history between the workers and the family. Others see cold, over working and underpaid entrapment. They feel pain and sadness over seen by uselessness… Contrary to popular belief not all slaves, plantations, or slave owners were bad or treated others badly. One of the largest slave owners in Louisiana was a black man.

New Orleans- Top destination for tourists for partying, devastation, and historical siting’s such as buildings, lakes, rivers, plazas, and so much more. How about vampire siting’s, ghost tours, haunted houses and ships, gypsies, voodoo, and fortune tellers. New Orleans is a city with tight corners and deep alley ways. People travel far and wide to experience all that it has to offer except few actually know its history. Years of war and refuge. Floods and despair. It seems as if this beloved, fun having city is constantly in a state of hardship and rehabilitation.

Architecture- Let’s see what is considered beautiful and gothic. Stained glass windows which are most commonly seen in churches and funeral homes. Pillars and columns in and around old government buildings, mansions, used as a form of stability but idolizing the importance of the establishment to outsiders. Iron-gate entrances and even wooden fences are usually a creepy source of imagery in a gothic novel. Even a statue of any means can be gothic. A statue of an angle is beautifully innocent until years of neglect has aged it, causing a broken wing, several chips and cracks, covered in grime and moss.

To be continued....