Sometime it is surprising to see people do things that they would not normally do or act totally different when in fear. The causes of fear vary among people, everyone have their own fear and it can be both intangible or tangible such a ghost, beast, darkness, snakes, spiders or even dentists. Sometime people do not even know what or why they are scared and it is in our subconscious, this makes it hard to control and eliminated. Fear is a strong emotion which is a powerful force can both be beneficial or fatal to person’s lives. Golding showed the force of fear in his book-- Lord of the Files. Golding’s setting of the book is a microcosm of real world he participated in, but it also can be related to the modern society we live in.
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In Lord of the Files, a bunch of six to twelve years old boys are left in an isolated and uninhabited island. In the beginning of the book, the younger boys, refer to littluns in the book, are scared and one of the boys with a mulberry-colored birthmark on face mentions he saw a snake-thing and later says it was a beastie in the forest. They do not know where the beastie comes from, some of them say it is from the sea and some of them say it comes in the dark. The older boys did not believe that at first, but after the boy with a birthmark on face went missing, their fear toward the unknown beast grows. In a darkness late one night, it is Samneric turn to watch the signal fire on the mountain. Suddenly, they see a flying gloomy figure behind the trees which we know it was a dead parachutist in the beginning of chapter six who got shot down …show more content…
Some criminals might use phone scam, blackmail to trick you into giving away your money or personal information by saying “if you don’t follow what we said, there will be big trouble”. These kinds of means are using the fear of victims to get what they want. Americans overacted of Ebola shows fear affect people’s judgement and cause hysteria. A report from CNN stated “A middle school principal ...who went to his brother's funeral in Africa[Zambia] is now on a weeklong paid vacation. Because parents pulled their kids out of school…once they learned of the trip. Zambia, which has reported a total of zero Ebola cases” ( Mendoza, Ahmed 2014). Moreover, there were only eight confirmed cases in U.S who had direct contact with Ebola. Since Ebola is a powerful virus and could be fatal, people freaked out when they heard one patient died from it in U.S, without truly knowing whether it is a real threat to us. This related to what Golding said in the novel when the boys started to dread about ghost, “The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away”(Golding 91), people afraid of unknown which might cause harm to them like Ebola, and because they do not have control over the threat, they tend to overeat and being
Fear …show more content…
In Lord of the Files, a bunch of six to twelve years old boys are left in an isolated and uninhabited island. In the beginning of the book, the younger boys, refer to littluns in the book, are scared and one of the boys with a mulberry-colored birthmark on face mentions he saw a snake-thing and later says it was a beastie in the forest. They do not know where the beastie comes from, some of them say it is from the sea and some of them say it comes in the dark. The older boys did not believe that at first, but after the boy with a birthmark on face went missing, their fear toward the unknown beast grows. In a darkness late one night, it is Samneric turn to watch the signal fire on the mountain. Suddenly, they see a flying gloomy figure behind the trees which we know it was a dead parachutist in the beginning of chapter six who got shot down …show more content…
Some criminals might use phone scam, blackmail to trick you into giving away your money or personal information by saying “if you don’t follow what we said, there will be big trouble”. These kinds of means are using the fear of victims to get what they want. Americans overacted of Ebola shows fear affect people’s judgement and cause hysteria. A report from CNN stated “A middle school principal ...who went to his brother's funeral in Africa[Zambia] is now on a weeklong paid vacation. Because parents pulled their kids out of school…once they learned of the trip. Zambia, which has reported a total of zero Ebola cases” ( Mendoza, Ahmed 2014). Moreover, there were only eight confirmed cases in U.S who had direct contact with Ebola. Since Ebola is a powerful virus and could be fatal, people freaked out when they heard one patient died from it in U.S, without truly knowing whether it is a real threat to us. This related to what Golding said in the novel when the boys started to dread about ghost, “The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away”(Golding 91), people afraid of unknown which might cause harm to them like Ebola, and because they do not have control over the threat, they tend to overeat and being