From Jaws To Stephen King

When you are/feel like you’re in a dangerous situation, do you let your imagination take over? Or do you use reasoning. Dreams, movies, personal experiences, and literature can make your imagination run wild. From Jaws to Stephen King’s novels, the reader can imagine the character’s fears and how they handle these situations. I have had a similar experience when I felt stuck in a dream and used fear instead of reasoning. A short poem by Ishmael Reed, “beware: do not read this poem,” he tells a story of a vain woman that drew people into the mirrors trapping them forever. Even though the poem doesn’t explain how people were sucked into the mirror, you imagine what they were thinking and how they reacted to this. I was 13 years old when I had a dream and I still remember it clearly. It was a dark street with only one bench and one street light. The street light was only …show more content…
In the poem, an old woman was so blinded by her reflection in the mirror, she surrounded herself with them. She soon went into the mirror and started to suck in new tenants. In my dream there was something that made me not want to leave but also want to escape. In the poem it makes the readers want to be interested in it and wanting to draw them in. I think the tenants did not use reasoning and were distracted by the woman in the mirror and probably used their imagination more. In my experience of using fear over reason, I could not choose to run away from my nightmare. My fear and imagination got the best of me by making me scared. When I woke up from my dream I thought about, realizing that it was only a dream but wondering how I would react if this dream/nightmare was real. In reality, my reasoning or common sense would kick in, and I would have bolted out off and call for help. Being drawn into something you are scared of makes your imagination run and forget about