The Premature Burial Theme

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The theme in "The Premature Burial" is that you can overcome your fears as long as you don't focus on the dark and dreary things in life. As a gymnast, fear happens to be a daily occurrence. I have avoided, gone around, and just plain ignored my fear. Something that gymnastics has taught me is in order to escape fear, you have to go through it, not around. You have to decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. I think the narrator realized in the end that the monsters we are all scared of are actually inside of us.
The narrator undergoes a major change. What did the narrator do in light of his experience on the sailboat? Do you think his reaction is a typical one of someone facing their fears? He turns into a new man. Not everyone

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