Fear traps us. It prevents us from growing up. It prevents us from living happy, satisfied, fulfilled, free lives. However, fear is a choice. You actually choose to be afraid and you can deliberately choose to live without it. This is the case in this short story were a teenage boy decides to face his fears. In this essay, the short story will be analyzed and interpreted through the following points: the setting, a characterization of Eddie and Angie, point of view and the main theme.
The short story “Monster under the Bed” by Lezanne Clannachan takes place in the Waterloo station in London, even though there are some flashbacks taking place elsewhere. The story is told in an omniscient third person narrator and it is through the main character …show more content…
Eddie is a fifteen-year-old boy who lives with his disordered mother. Eddie seems like a very well-mannered and caring teenage boy, “He makes himself remember the grateful look on his mum’s face when he fetches her rug, brushes her hair, rubs her feet” (p. 2, l. 63). Eddie is conscious of the fact that first-impressions are important, “He shakes her hand with a firm grip to show strength of character. It’s manners not money that matter, his mum liked to say when he was little” (p. 2, l. 44). This shows he was taught good manners. Eddie comes from a home with a single mother due to abandonment. His father left them because he “Got sick of looking after her” (p. 4, l. 139). Even though Eddie seems polite and caring, he has a lot anger and repressed feelings. These feelings are a result from his childhood where his mother gradually seemed to care less, “First she stopped going out with her mate Lilian. The she wouldn’t visit the neighbours (…)” (p. 4, l. 134). Because of his mother, he never meets new people, barely sees his friends. In addition to his social isolation, he has also lost his dog Beanie and his girlfriend Lucy due to the fact that his mother is scared of anything he might love more than her. This shows that Eddie is controlled by his mother’s …show more content…
The plot of the story stress how you sometimes have to face your fears in order to get over them. When Eddie was younger, he was afraid of monsters under his bed. One day he decided to confront his fear by crawling under his bed and lay on the carpet until he was convinced there were no monsters. In the end of the story, he finally decides to face his fear by skipping the last train and experiencing the outside world and discovering the unknown, “He leaves the empty pastry box on the bench and walks – one step after another – towards the ticket barrier” (p. 5, l.
The short story “Monster under the Bed” by Lezanne Clannachan takes place in the Waterloo station in London, even though there are some flashbacks taking place elsewhere. The story is told in an omniscient third person narrator and it is through the main character …show more content…
Eddie is a fifteen-year-old boy who lives with his disordered mother. Eddie seems like a very well-mannered and caring teenage boy, “He makes himself remember the grateful look on his mum’s face when he fetches her rug, brushes her hair, rubs her feet” (p. 2, l. 63). Eddie is conscious of the fact that first-impressions are important, “He shakes her hand with a firm grip to show strength of character. It’s manners not money that matter, his mum liked to say when he was little” (p. 2, l. 44). This shows he was taught good manners. Eddie comes from a home with a single mother due to abandonment. His father left them because he “Got sick of looking after her” (p. 4, l. 139). Even though Eddie seems polite and caring, he has a lot anger and repressed feelings. These feelings are a result from his childhood where his mother gradually seemed to care less, “First she stopped going out with her mate Lilian. The she wouldn’t visit the neighbours (…)” (p. 4, l. 134). Because of his mother, he never meets new people, barely sees his friends. In addition to his social isolation, he has also lost his dog Beanie and his girlfriend Lucy due to the fact that his mother is scared of anything he might love more than her. This shows that Eddie is controlled by his mother’s …show more content…
The plot of the story stress how you sometimes have to face your fears in order to get over them. When Eddie was younger, he was afraid of monsters under his bed. One day he decided to confront his fear by crawling under his bed and lay on the carpet until he was convinced there were no monsters. In the end of the story, he finally decides to face his fear by skipping the last train and experiencing the outside world and discovering the unknown, “He leaves the empty pastry box on the bench and walks – one step after another – towards the ticket barrier” (p. 5, l.