Stephen King is one of the most successful authors when the genre is horror stories. With that being said many of his books have went on to become really popular movies, for example the likes of “Carrie”,” It” and many more. In the Why We Crave Horror Movies article, King expresses that horror novels are essentially an important human need. He also is trying to tell us that it okay if you need to vent to the dark side because those desires (unacceptable) are present in everyone. He inputs that we love violence, and we are a little bit crazy. King uses a lot of rhetorical devices to support his claims and his arguments. King uses vivid tones to make sure the reader clearly understands. “I think that we’re all mentally ill...”(514) This statement is very true, especially in the world that we live in know; people who are living just the normal life can suddenly just snap. Every time I turn on the news, I hear another story about a person killing another person. A day or two ago I was looking at the news online and saw that an 11 year-old girl had killed a two-month old baby. The girl had to be seriously mentally ill. “…those outside the asylums only hide it a little …show more content…
We want to be able to prove to ourselves that we are not scared of anything including death. For example, we go to see blood and guts films to demonstrate that we are not anxious or perhaps we go to see thrillers in light of the fact that we fantasize doing something to that effect in this present reality. He connects this with the roller coaster and that we ride roller coasters to validate that we have the guts to go through the entire ride or just like in horror films sit through the entire movie. Also, by doing this King acknowledges the fact that we put aside our more civilized self’s and become children again to allow our emotions of violence, aggression but most importantly