So Im no english major or anything, but I do love this story. Ive discussed and read many discussions on this short story and to my best knowledge this is what it meant: There are several passages that represent supernatural themes, talking about the descriptions of the mother (hands, buck teeth, in the eyes of a child could be claws and fangs), the dress compells the child to defend her mother's memory. Also, the grandmother's line 'Oh god its happening again' (not an exact quote, Im sure) makes it sound as if it is a curse, or something along those lines that is inheritaded by the daughter. My take on it, regardless of the supernatural undertones, is that it is a story about how we can inherate our parents mistakes, genes, etc, or in this case monsterous tendancies. I see it as a coming of age story and how this child either A) lost it completely and killed her friend because of the negative things she said about her mother OR B) the situation, between the stress of hearing horrible things about her mother who could do no wrong in her eyes, and perhaps puberty, and definetly putting on the dress brought about a change in the daughter. I would think her mother was a vampire, witch, werewolf or something along those lines and the dress is somehow connected to all of it. This is most likely why the grandmother tried to keep it locked up and away from the child.
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Anyway, I may be completely off base, but this is what I took from it.:). Functional text is writing meant to help the reader accomplish an everyday task. Examples of functional text might include a recipe for cooking; directions to a location; a memo notifying of a change in a company's address, or a store's opening time; a schedule of event times and locations during a seminar; a directory of addresses, phone numbers or e-mail addresses; directions on a test; a menu from a restaurant; a pamphlet notifying the public of a grand opening, store closing, or a foreclosure; or a how-to manual just to name a few. Television images are created with a stream of still images. In the US, the stream is 60 fields each second. As two fields are needed to make a complete frame or image, the frame rate is 30 per second.
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I do recall, nothing to do with (Snow White) there were spot ads on TV for the Public Service ( bus lines) using rather crudely animated cardboard sketches- one was a man or boy wearing an Oriental hat- pushing a Rickshaw. There were several different spots, each featuring a different means of transportation and all had an instrumental version of the Public Service Theme song- skip the parking, skip the Fuss, Ride the Public Service Bus. Da da da da da- Man with Rickshaw. That's the only Oriental thing I can think of as a sort of juvenile appeal ad, in the sixties.
I think you might be talking about a version made by Cannon Films, it was released on DVD by MGM. Here is a trailer on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ZIM-m3BPY.
. Notable awards World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, Science Fiction Hall of Fame (2010) Signature Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the, and genres. He is best known as the author of, a 1954 science fiction horror vampire novel that has been four times, as well as the movie for which Matheson wrote the screenplay, based on his novel. Matheson also wrote 16 television episodes of, including ' and '. He adapted his 1971 short story 'Duel' as a screenplay directed by a young, for the that year. Seven more of his novels or short stories have been adapted as major motion pictures —, (filmed as ), Steel (filmed as ), and.
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I love Matheson's stories and I have read Dress of White Silk many times, but it seems a bit ambiguous as to its meaning. I'm guessing this was done on purpose. I love how it's written and it has some quotes I like. But what does it mean to you? To me, I see it as a little girl inheriting her mother's (evil?) power. Her mother may have been a witch?
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The ending also seems to imply that whatever 'terrible bad' thing she did, she gained some manner of power from. Or, it could also mean the dress contains some leftover power of her mother's that possessed her while she held it. Btw, this story has been reprinted many times, but here are two newer editions that contain it.
Funny, I just re-read this as part of my upcoming review of. Matheson says in his post-notes that he wrote it because 'Born of Man and Woman' had worked so well and he wanted to see if he could do the 'children's voice trick' again.SPOILERS. As to what's going on - well, it's ambiguous on purpose, not just for the pay-off but also to forestall questions that might arise if too many details are given.
Obviously the 'little girl' is normal enough to have a friend that visits, so she's no obvious monster, but that the mother herself probably appeared somewhat monstrous at her death (buck teeth = fangs, funny hands = claws), her shroud is the 'dress of white silk' and donning it either causes the daughter to be possessed by the mother or perhaps come into her inheritance of monstrous desire and power (the story hints that it has happened before). I actually think it's pretty evocative as is, asking questions just pulls an effective but flimsy structure apart. I read it and liked it OK.
Reminded me a little of that short story where the monstrous-looking boy is kept locked in a basement. Why does the grandmother allow a kid to come and play with the girl? Surely she knows something is not right because she screamed 'god help us its happened.' Stuff just flies over my head sometimes in short stories. I didn't pick up on the buck teeth (fangs) or hands (claws) as being something other than the little girl worshiping her mother and not wanting to hear anything but how beautiful SHE thought her mother was.
No wonder it was so dark in the house. How'd I ever get my English degree? My take on the story: The ending gives it away for me: 'She doesn't have to even give me supper.
I'm not hungry anyway. The way Matherson emphasized that ending in his wording, tells me she ate Mary Jane. 'buck teeth funny hands' could be a werewolf or a vampire.
It seems obvious to me that the mother turns into a monster, and the child has inherited her tendency. For me, the big question is the role of the white dress.
Here's a line that I'm puzzling the meaning of, when the daughter pretends to be the mother going out against the grandmother's wish: 'And oh stop your sobbing mother they will not catch me I have my magic dress.' I searched through the story, and I still can't figure out how the dress is going to stop her from being captured. If she goes out and turns into a monster to claim her victims, what is the role of the dress?.SPOILERS. It could be what you say, Shawn. Some clues that the dress has evil power: The beginning where the girl was locked in her room: 'Because its happened she says. I guess I was bad. Only it was the dress.'
Later in the scene, she talked about her grandma: 'And she says I should burn it up but I loved her so. And she cries about the dress.'
After Mary Jane insulted her mother: 'I think the dress moved in my arms.' 'I think I heard some one call dont let her say that! I couldnt hold to the dress. And I had it on me I cant remember. Because I was grown up strong.
But I was a little girl still I think I mean outside. I think I was terrible bad then.'
My take on the dress: 1. The dress is a part of the mother, her monster, evil side. To destroy the dress is to destroy the mother.
That's why the grandmother cannot destroy the dress. Evil is passed on from the mother to the daughter, like the old concept, 'Sins of the father.'
, particularly mentioned here and there in the Bible. I think the dress represents the evil that is within all of us and is also our inheritance. In the Matheson's story terms, the dress transforms the mother into a supernaturally strong evil monster, so that man would have a hard time destroying her. Thus, she cannot be caught.
Since that evil is an addictive part of her, she needs to don it every night to go out and commit her destruction. Flag Abuse Flagging a post will send it to the Goodreads Customer Care team for review. We take abuse seriously in our discussion boards. Only flag comments that clearly need our attention.
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'When the Waker Sleeps') (1950). 'Blood Son' (1951). 'Through Channels' (1951). 'Clothes Make the Man' (1951). 'Return' (1951). 'The Thing' (1951). 'Witch War' (1951).
'Dress of White Silk' (1951). 'F-' (a.k.a.
'The Foodlegger') (1952). ' (1952). 'SRL Ad' (1952). 'Advance Notice' (a.k.a. 'Letter to the Editor') (1952).
' (1952). 'Brother to the Machine' (1952). 'To Fit the Crime' (1952). 'The Wedding' (1953). 'Wet Straw' (1953). 'Long Distance Call' (a.k.a. 'Sorry, Right Number') (1953).
'Slaughter House' (1953). 'Mad House' (1953). ' (1953). 'Lazarus II' (1953). 'Legion of Plotters' (1953). 'Death Ship' (1953); adapted as a (1963). 'Disappearing Act' (1953); adapted as a (1959). B&q dehumidifier wdh-930dah manual.
'The Disinheritors' (1953). 'Dying Room Only' (1953). 'Full Circle' (1953). 'Mother by Protest' (a.k.a.
(1954). The Shores of Space (1957).
Shock!. (1957). (1959).
(1960). (1961). (1961). (1962); a.k.a. ^ at the ( ISFDB).
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Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion, 1990 Edition.
Andrews and McMeel, 1990, p. June 24, 2013. Retrieved 2013. Kellogg, Carolyn (June 24, 2013). Retrieved 2013. June 25, 2013. Retrieved 2013.
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Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. Archived from on March 25, 2010. EMP SFM is proud to announce the 2010 Hall of Fame inductees:. World Fantasy Convention. Retrieved 2011. Retrieved 2013. Deborah Christie, Sarah Juliet Lauro, ed.
Fordham Univ Press. August 7, 2009. Missing or empty title=. LondonEvening Standard. Retrieved 2013. Olsen, Mark (June 24, 2013). Los Angeles Times.
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