Monster Definition Essay

Fear is an emotion that everyone has and comes in many different shapes and forms. Typically in children that fear takes form as a monster. As a child I found my monster in the form of aliens. The word monster derives from the old French word monstre which in the 13th century was a term to describe a “disfigured person”. Over hundreds of year this word has taken many meanings. In my case the definition of my monster is the fifth definition in the Oxford English dictionary,”A person of repulsively unnatural character, or exhibiting such extreme cruelty as to appear in human; a monstrous example of evil, a vice,etc.” This relates to my monster because in my case my aliens were only doing evil and were nothing like anything from Earth.
It was a arid afternoon in the Golden state California. I was 6 at the time and just moved from the bustling city of San Francisco to a tiny apartment in a small winery town called Atascadero, which is loosely translated from the spanish word “atascar” which means mud hole. Since Atascadero’s population consists of 98% white people my friends and I called Atascadero “Atascabama”.
My family moved there because my dad just got a new job at a power plant not
Every episode revolves around something spooky that happens to the elderly couple and Courage has to resolve it. This whole show in in general was horrified to me as a child but one episode was especially scary to me. It starts with a huge UFO that appears out of nowhere and takes the elderly couple away and it was Courage’s job to save them. This sparked the fear the I would be taken away by aliens and every night I would be scared that a UFO would land in my backyard and take me