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Hi, I need help with essay on The Undead. Paper must be at least 500 words. Please, no plagiarized work!hemselves are only moderate and somewhat ambiguous, and the emphasis is on those telling the sto

Hi, I need help with essay on The Undead. Paper must be at least 500 words. Please, no plagiarized work!

hemselves are only moderate and somewhat ambiguous, and the emphasis is on those telling the stories and experiencing them being not really sure whether they encountered ghosts with dead certainty (Goldstein, Greider, and Thomas, 2007, pp. 29-31):

The drama comes from the subject matter and the manner in which people tell the stories rather than from the extraordinary behavior of the supernatural beings.

In the oral tradition, people commonly report merely feeling some type of “presence”, a cold feeling in the room, or strange noises and nothing more” (Goldstein, Greider and Thomas, 2007, p. 29).

The same observation is made with regard to the subtle and ambiguous reality of ghosts as they are rendered in American culture. The take is that in American culture, the reality is something that cannot be fixed with the certainty of fact, but is embedded within the hazy and deliberately ambiguous stories that people tell each other when they relate their experiences about ghosts. This is the case, for instance, in observations of how ghosts are portrayed in American literature that represents the best of American culture through the ages (Lewis, 2005, pp. 33-34):

James thus poses, in somewhat clumsy form, the sorts of questions that will bedevil interpreters of his later ghost stories.

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