Throughout the entire existence of film and media, there is always the perfect/crazed imaginative mind that generates the ideal monster, such as brain-eating zombies or the slashing Freddy Krueger. From folklore to the big screen, each generation grows up with a nightmare from the haunting characters that allow themselves to wonder their way into the consciousness of children. Unfortunately, for this current generation has a creature so bizarre that the creation has infiltrated into the minds of two 12-year old girls in the town of Waukesha, Wisconsin. The two girls were supposedly possessed by Slender Man, who motivated them into stabbing their 12-year old classmate and friend gruesomely 19 times. The mythological creature that
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She warms up the audience by saying that everyone agrees with the point that Slender Man is perhaps “the Internet’s best and scariest legend,” as surprisingly, he was only invented from a forum on an explicit website called Something Awful. Although Slender Man is someone’s creation, she adds the tragic story of the stabbing of the 12- year old girl signaling that the two girls in custody missed that he’s just fictional. Dewey interviews the creator of Slender Man about if he had any certainty that his creation would spread throughout the web,” I didn’t expect it to move beyond the Something Awful forum,” was his response and he adds it was the ignorance of the audience that allowed his creation to become a legend. Dewey continues on in her article about the fictional and the unimaginative whereabouts of Slender Man, then explaining the obscurity of why Slender Man is so frightening, where she does another interview on Shira Chess, an assistant professor of mass media arts at the University of Georgia and also a scholar of the Slender Man myth, informs Dewey that she is unsurprised that there are people buying into the myth. She finally wraps up her article by adding a quote from the police chief of Waukesha,” the Internet can be full of darkness and twisted things.” With numerous amount of factual evidence and a flexible structure, Dewey feeds the audience her evenhanded article out of her writing hand. She began by inducing a horrifying tone and diction, which seems to be the kind of introduction a monster needs in order to at least have an audience to startle. Then, throughout the entirety of
She warms up the audience by saying that everyone agrees with the point that Slender Man is perhaps “the Internet’s best and scariest legend,” as surprisingly, he was only invented from a forum on an explicit website called Something Awful. Although Slender Man is someone’s creation, she adds the tragic story of the stabbing of the 12- year old girl signaling that the two girls in custody missed that he’s just fictional. Dewey interviews the creator of Slender Man about if he had any certainty that his creation would spread throughout the web,” I didn’t expect it to move beyond the Something Awful forum,” was his response and he adds it was the ignorance of the audience that allowed his creation to become a legend. Dewey continues on in her article about the fictional and the unimaginative whereabouts of Slender Man, then explaining the obscurity of why Slender Man is so frightening, where she does another interview on Shira Chess, an assistant professor of mass media arts at the University of Georgia and also a scholar of the Slender Man myth, informs Dewey that she is unsurprised that there are people buying into the myth. She finally wraps up her article by adding a quote from the police chief of Waukesha,” the Internet can be full of darkness and twisted things.” With numerous amount of factual evidence and a flexible structure, Dewey feeds the audience her evenhanded article out of her writing hand. She began by inducing a horrifying tone and diction, which seems to be the kind of introduction a monster needs in order to at least have an audience to startle. Then, throughout the entirety of