Fear of the Dark Essay

‘The Dark’ is a picture book written by Lemony Snicket and illustrated by Jon Klassen that centres around the two themes of fear and imagination. The main idea of this book is to demonstrate that in order to overcome fears, we have to use our imagination. The book shows the importance of overcoming your fears and not being afraid to try something new. Picture books are important as they help us connect with what we observe and how we link concepts with words. The book tells the tale of the protagonist - a young boy named Laszlo - who is afraid of the dark. He visits the dark so that the it will not visit him. One night it visits him and tells him to go down into the basement and shows Laszlo where the lightbulbs are. The dark keeps on living with Laszlo but does not bother him again. Throughout the pages of this book, the composer teaches that we should be able to confront our fears and we shouldn’t be afraid to use our imagination.…

down your spine. A mind young as yours doesn’t feel the longing fear of your family or your career, but you do have the basic instincts that have lived with human nature for centuries. Feeling threatened, the ancient instincts run through your child self and make you fear for your life. Your “monster under the bed” has sparked these fears for your life, but that basic natural fear evolves over time with maturity and knowledge of the modern world you live in. Soon you are afraid of bad grades,…

Terms of Fear The first Prime Minister of India once said, “There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.” Jawaharal Nehru’s statement on fear is not entirely mistaken because fear is one of the primary influences behind racism and acts of racism in America. It is plausible to presume that as long as this fear exists, racism and prejudice will exist. For this presumption alone, it is reasonable to cast fear off as an undesirable, even dangerous feeling to have. However,…

2016)”. Is this not the very thing that causes us to take sides in conflict or to act on something that doesn’t seem right? We are not born with the understanding that “White is Right” we are taught this from a very young age by our predecessors; our parents, our society, history, even by the very nature of being human. Our perceptions define our realities, and when we are afraid of the dark or the blackness that is inside our cores, our perceptions of black and white change. Explanation as I…

Imagine a dark future where everyone lives in fear and nobody can be trusted. This is the future portrayed by the novels “1984” by George Orwell and Cormac McCarthy’s story: “The Road”. 1984 is a dark story about an outer party member, Winston, in a corrupt society run by a small group of people who call themselves “The Party”. The Road is about an unnamed man and his son living in a ruined world. They need to survive their journey to the south and avoid cannibals and murderers. Both of these…

Although it is shown so much, evidence shows that it was more towards the beauty of the natural form than sexualizing it, and that the people of Greece were fascinated with the nature of the human body. They painted murals of men in battle, clad only in a shield, and of women telling stories to their children with a mere blanket over their most private areas, yet these were not sexual in the least. This is why I believe that the fear that created Sirens must be more than something stemming from…

foreshadow the dark events that will unfold in Victor’s life when he witnessed, as a kid, a lightning bolt completely burning a tree down to ashes, and then later describing himself “but I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be – a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to other, and intolerable to myself.” Instances of foreshadowing were recurrent throughout the narration, Victor occasionally…

Authors have to employ various techniques in their writing to convey their message to the reader. However, comic book authors face an extra struggle. Having little text and few pages, they have to manipulate their images and the way the text appears to get their message across. The author of Batman the Dark Knight: Trapped by the Scarecrow portrays the complexity of the characters, the motives for their actions, and their similarity through his dark illustrations, frequency of text use, and…

Usher” and “Windigo” helped create the mood of fear. In the story “The Fall of the House of Usher” Edgar Allen Poe used dark words to create the mood of fear. The first sentence of the story says “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low”(Poe 13). By this sentence you already have the feeling of fear in the back of your mind. The reason you have this feeling is because of certain words such as dull, dark, and…

I believe there may be more of them, and I request permission to conduct a further search of the area” (Lucas, Return of the Jedi). Luke surrendered to the empire because he knew it was the best option he had. If he didn’t surrender, he would never get the chance to confront his father and the emperor. During the three battles, Luke surrenders to his anger and fear as the Emperor and Darth Vader taunt him about his family. Darth Vader finds out about Luke’s sister and threatens to turn her to…