It is wholly recurrent to blindly skim through a detailed piece of literature and be unconscious to the likeness it shares with other pieces of literature. I am surely guilty of this ignorant practice, however. As I was reading “Hanging Fire” by Audre Lorde and “On Turning Ten” by Billy Collins, I didn’t truly perceive the connection right away. The obvious was already divulged in my mind; they’re both in the points of views of children. They, however, both have a mutual theme; growing up brings uncertainty and disappointment.
The Hot Zone is a book that discusses the most terrifying events that happened in the human history. This book was written by Richard Preston and It was published in the year 1994. It also discusses about the dramatic stories, giving a hair-raising experience about the lethal viruses that crashed into the human race. This book clarifies about the breakouts of the filovirus around the world, and how did people deal with this breakout. There were many moral themes that were mentioned / highlighted in this book which includes; lack of knowledge, fear, chance and Human error.
Literature can provide a deep insight about how people experience fear. Two stories that I found to be very similar were Fahrenheit 451 and “Harrison Bergeron.” It shows how fear can cause people in power to harm others, and how it can lead to oppression. The government in “Harrison Bergeron” is an excellent example of how powerful people react to fear.
Tim O’Brien can have you relate to fear so much that fear that he had in that book that you can relate to it. He was able to show this when he was driving in his hometown. “Beyond all this, or at the very center, was the raw fact of terror. I did not want to die. Not ever.
A four letter word effects humans whether awake or asleep, fear. Fear has multiple forms depending of the focus of the person. A few of the possibilities are fear of water, heights, and fearing future choices. Some as the fear of the water could easily be defeated while others are harder to truly find the source. The child in Alden Nowlan’s “Aunt Jane” mysteriously describes fear, both current and future, during an aunt’s last decade in life.
When a person picks up a Horror Novel for the first time, they have no idea what is in store for them. Certainly they know the book will be quote unquote “scary”, but of course it will be scary. The sole purpose of that book is to scare the reader. Many horror books attempt but are unable to scare the reader, or if they do scare the reader, the book is not very well written. The three books that this essay is focusing on all do a brilliant job of not only terrifying the reader, but also using and exploiting many literary devices that make the book stick in the reader's memory.
Elizabeth Ross, a Swiss-American author wrote, “The most beautiful we've known are those who have known defeat, struggles, loss, and have found their way out of the depths.” In order to survive in the world we must realize that growing up comes with having to face your fears. The protagonists in John Knowles, Elie Wiesel, and J.D. Salinger books either fear losing their identity to cruelty, change, or their best friend. These fears tend to be the evil that the characters live with and shape their lives. What they do not get is that every adolescent endures evil; how they handle this will cause them to mature.
All of the Ray Bradbury stories that I read share common traits. To begin with, all of the stories have fear in them. “The Fog Horn” has this example when monster attacks McDunn and Johnny and they get scared for their lives. “In The Veldt,” the kids lock their parents in the room that comes alive and the parents are terrified right before they get attacked by the surprisingly real lions. In “A Sound Of Thunder,” Eckles gets frightened right when he sees the dinosaur that will attack them.
“The Monkey's Paw” is considered a scary story because of its suspense. A good example of suspense in “The Monkey's Paw” is “The knocking ceased suddenly, although the echos of it were still in the house” (W.W 116). This quote shows suspense in the story because it shows how something wicked is going to happen and silence interrupts before the horror approaches, this excites
Fear was also portrayed through the narrator by the term darkness in his childhood after the church meetings. “The silence, the darkness coming and the darkness in the face frightens the child obscurely. He hopes that the hand which
By understanding the reason of Walker’s continual use of “fear is” and the repetition of negative connotation words one may understand the piece as an explanation to our recent
Fear can be defined as an unpleasant feeling triggered by a situation. It is an emotion encountered by every human being. However, the reactions of people to fear may vary. Indeed, it ranges from the loss of rationality to the capacity of adaptation in extreme conditions. Thus, fear can be perceived as a weapon to control and manipulate society.
Fear plays a big part in everyone’s lives. While not everyone will admit it, everyone is scared of something. There is a lot that isn’t known about the world and everything in it. For some this is a tool that can be used to develop horror in literature as well as many other things. “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
Amino acids that are essential for humans are those that cannot be synthesized in the body and therefore are obtained exclusively by consumption. The essential amino acids in humans include histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine. Phenylalanine, one of the essential amino acids, is used in the body to form tyrosine. An enzyme called phenylalanine hydroxylase is involved in adding a hydroxyl group to phenylalanine in what is called a hydroxylation reaction to form tyrosine (Pratt 485). Since tyrosine can be produced in humans in this way, it is considered a nonessential amino acid.
It diverts attention with powerful emotions like anger, shame, and jealously. And when all else fails, it calls upon fear to seal the doors of our innermost being shut. Riley tries to push her father away by rejecting all his efforts in trying to console her in accepting the reality. This prove that drastic changes in teenager’s environment may brought a big impact towards the individuals if the matter is not being tackled in a correct manner. This can be proven when Riley doesn’t give any response to her dad’s tease in her bedroom after Riley flagrantly yelling at her parent when they insist to ask about the first day at new school and thus causing her dad to scold her.
