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__**The Turn Of The Screw By Henry James ** __  Henry James was born 1843 in New York City, New York. He was the second of five children. By 1864 James decided to become a writer after several attempts at attending schools to study science and law. He now immersed himself in French, Russian, English, and American classic literature.Henry James died of pneumonia and having a storke a couple months before that. []
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**Plot Summary:** The book starts off with a group of friends sitting around a fire in England telling ghost stories. A man named Douglas proposes to tell a true story about two children. He keeps the manuscript of the story locked in a drawer at home in London. It was written by a woman, now dead, who was once his younger sister's governess and with whom he was in love. Three days later, the manuscript arrives by the post, and Douglas begins his story. Before he starts reading the manuscript Douglas starts reading the manuscript he explains that the governess had been interviewed by a gentle man in London. She was fancied by him, and he was able to convince her to accept the position of governess to his niece and nephew at his country house in Bly. The previous governess has died and the boy is now away at school and the girl in the care of the housekeper. There is one condition: She cannot contact him at any time and must deal with all problems herself. One night as the governess was talking a walk around the property she looked up in the tower to see a man standing there staring at her. She thought it was their uncle until coming to the conclusion that it was a stranger. During the book it goes over the different situation that the governess is in with this "ghostly figure". The young boy and girl are two of the only ones to have seen the "ghostly figure".

 Genre: Gothic Novel, Satire Setting: 1840s in Bly, England Theme: the corruption of the innocent, the destructiveness of heroism, and forbidden subjects Symbol: Light, the written word Motifs: Vision, A Ship Lost At Sea, Silence
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"No; it was a big, ugly, antique, but convenient house, embodying a few features of a building still older, half replaced and half utilized, in which I had the fancy of our being almost as lost as a handful of passengers in a great drifting ship. Well, I was, strangely, at the helm!" (James, 15) This Quotation is important because it is when the governess first arrives at the house in Bly and its how she describes it.
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http://www.enotes.com/short-story-criticism/turn-screw-henry-james
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