Mason Lee Childress Interview Essay

Fear has a unique way of taking over our entire body, well at least it does for 20 year old Mason Lee Childress. Since the begging of our relationship he has had no problem showing how terrified he is of spiders. Regardless of their size, they could be no bigger than a bottle cap, and he’d still run the other way when coming across one. I’ve asked him how long he's had this fear towards spiders, and he began to explain how he wasn't always afraid of them until he was around 6 or 7 and blames his sibling for it. Mason believes that it was Cody his older brothers fault, and I believed him. Cody is that big brother like from the movies who can convince his little brother to do about almost anything. Mason explains to me in detail how he once was dared by Cody to jump over an old bush at his grandparents house, at first Mason wasn't considering it but then here comes Cody taunting him on how he couldn't do it because he was just a little baby, and was too afraid. Of course Mason was now embarrassed, and felt like he had to go through with it. After ten minutes Mason prepares to jump it, and right as he was going Cody pretends to run into him, Mason tries stopping, but it was too late. Mason was stuck in this old bush bruised up and panicking with web all over
We were on our way to school one morning, and I notice a glare shining in the air and something tiny coming down form the ceiling of his car right away I panicked as well because I know once Mason saw it all hell was going to break loose. Once Mason notices the little spider climbing its way down on its web he begins to scream like a little baby. Mason seemed to have forgotten he was driving at the time because he took his hand off the wheel to shield his face like someone was coming to attack him. I had to kill the spider myself by just grabbing it with my bare palm. Till this day I get upset thinking of the