As a teen, watching scary movies with friends is exciting and fun. After the movie, my friends and I joke around trying to spook each other, or talk about how the movie was too scary to be real. Watching horror for fun is one of the reasons that Stephen King points out in “Why We Crave Horror”. Stephen King has pointed out as a human we crave horror to have some fun, get a feeling of normalcy, and to be able to face our fears.
Humans crave horror for another way to have some fun. In Stephen King’s story, “Strawberry Springs” , despite the morbid fact that multiple women are killed in the story, the experience is a “peculiar sort of fun” (King, “Why We Crave” 2). After all, the reason why we get enjoyment is literally it's a drama that’s …show more content…
Compared to the narrator and the events of “Strawberry Spring,” we “reestablish our feelings of essential normality” (King, “Why We Crave” 1). Of course, in reality nobody goes around murdering, hacking and slashing at people. In our “normal” world, people who commit those acts are seen as if they need to be locked up in an asylum. Whenever we see people in movies or stories do horrific acts we feel relief and normal because, we know that nothing like that would really happen in reality. Also we have known that the story is all made up from the creator's mind. Our we can all relate to the narrator from Strawberry Springs. He was a student who was “busting his brains on essay[s] which we had to when we are growing up (King, “Strawberry Spring” 2). Also as an adult who has created a family and gotten his career. That's pretty normal in reality because, many people can easily relate to the narrator. But we can't relate to the horrifying and bloodcurdling “Springheel Jack”. That’s a quality example of somebody that should be locked up in an asylum. He has the ability to cut throats, commit beheadings, and even dismember
Humans crave horror for another way to have some fun. In Stephen King’s story, “Strawberry Springs” , despite the morbid fact that multiple women are killed in the story, the experience is a “peculiar sort of fun” (King, “Why We Crave” 2). After all, the reason why we get enjoyment is literally it's a drama that’s …show more content…
Compared to the narrator and the events of “Strawberry Spring,” we “reestablish our feelings of essential normality” (King, “Why We Crave” 1). Of course, in reality nobody goes around murdering, hacking and slashing at people. In our “normal” world, people who commit those acts are seen as if they need to be locked up in an asylum. Whenever we see people in movies or stories do horrific acts we feel relief and normal because, we know that nothing like that would really happen in reality. Also we have known that the story is all made up from the creator's mind. Our we can all relate to the narrator from Strawberry Springs. He was a student who was “busting his brains on essay[s] which we had to when we are growing up (King, “Strawberry Spring” 2). Also as an adult who has created a family and gotten his career. That's pretty normal in reality because, many people can easily relate to the narrator. But we can't relate to the horrifying and bloodcurdling “Springheel Jack”. That’s a quality example of somebody that should be locked up in an asylum. He has the ability to cut throats, commit beheadings, and even dismember