Stephen King Why We Crave Horror Movies Summary
The essay of Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies, basically talks about how the people in society need to watch the violence portrayed by the media entertainment to satisfy their thirst for evil embodied in their soul and to get away from the reality of life problems. This paper, in my opinion, was not written to persuade the readers to do something a specific way, but to prove a certain point and to make the audience feel a certain way through the use of inductive reasoning, specific word choices, and pathos appeal. The thesis of the essay was that "If we share brother hood of a man, the new also share an insanity of man."
Stephan King starts with a very provocative statement. He states his opinion that "we are all mentally ill." The writer used inductive reasoning here because he starts out on something general such as calling everybody mentally ill and going into specific behaviors which people tend to do. He supports that statement by saying how people talk to themselves when not in public, how they pick their nose and make weird faces when no body is around to watch. Also, he gives examples of how many people have "hysterical fear-of snakes, the dark, the tight place and those final worms and grubs that are waiting so patiently …show more content…
underground." These examples support the writers opinion, "we are all mentally ill," because we create fear in our minds of non essentially harmful objects.
The use of word choice was an important strategy to create a certain feeling in the audience.
The writer titled the essay "Why We Crave Horror Movies?" The reason for this is to make us, the readers, aware of why we crave to see, hear and read about murder, death and blood. People in the world have the craving for watching the violence through horror movies, hearing spooky stories at a campfire, and reading about ghosts. There are many crimes, violence, terrorism going around in the real world and these events are printed in news papers, television news, etc. People read and watch these events but it just does not seem enough. People want to "pay five bucks and dare their nightmare," to watch fictional
entertainment.
I think King also used appeal to pathos to create an approach through emotions. Stephen King suggest that watching these horror movies, fictional literature, blood, and hearing spooky stores help us relieve our anger and allows us a getaway from real life problems. He proposes that watching the ugliness portrayed in these media entertainment makes us feel less guilty of the ugliness we portray in reality. Everybody needs to let out their emotions because our emotions "demand its own exercise to maintain proper muscle tone", civilized and uncivilized. "Love, friendship, loyalty, kindness" are of the "civilized society" which we tend to applaud. But the uncivilized emotions also need their dose. We make jokes such as "what's the difference between a truckload of bowling balls and truck load of dead babies? (you can unload babies with a pitch fork)" Jokes like these cause us to laugh which to King confirms his thesis "if we share brotherhood of a man, then we also share an insanity of man."
We all are in a condition of crossing the line between madness and sanity. That means that anyone and everyone can be unpredictable, dangerous and insane. Stephen King tries to bring the reader to a conclusion that horror is a way to "feed the gators," to calm the dark corners of evil in our soul. King agreed with Lennon and McCartney that said "all you need is love" just "as long as you keep the gators fed."
Stephan King starts with a very provocative statement. He states his opinion that "we are all mentally ill." The writer used inductive reasoning here because he starts out on something general such as calling everybody mentally ill and going into specific behaviors which people tend to do. He supports that statement by saying how people talk to themselves when not in public, how they pick their nose and make weird faces when no body is around to watch. Also, he gives examples of how many people have "hysterical fear-of snakes, the dark, the tight place and those final worms and grubs that are waiting so patiently …show more content…
underground." These examples support the writers opinion, "we are all mentally ill," because we create fear in our minds of non essentially harmful objects.
The use of word choice was an important strategy to create a certain feeling in the audience.
The writer titled the essay "Why We Crave Horror Movies?" The reason for this is to make us, the readers, aware of why we crave to see, hear and read about murder, death and blood. People in the world have the craving for watching the violence through horror movies, hearing spooky stories at a campfire, and reading about ghosts. There are many crimes, violence, terrorism going around in the real world and these events are printed in news papers, television news, etc. People read and watch these events but it just does not seem enough. People want to "pay five bucks and dare their nightmare," to watch fictional
entertainment.
I think King also used appeal to pathos to create an approach through emotions. Stephen King suggest that watching these horror movies, fictional literature, blood, and hearing spooky stores help us relieve our anger and allows us a getaway from real life problems. He proposes that watching the ugliness portrayed in these media entertainment makes us feel less guilty of the ugliness we portray in reality. Everybody needs to let out their emotions because our emotions "demand its own exercise to maintain proper muscle tone", civilized and uncivilized. "Love, friendship, loyalty, kindness" are of the "civilized society" which we tend to applaud. But the uncivilized emotions also need their dose. We make jokes such as "what's the difference between a truckload of bowling balls and truck load of dead babies? (you can unload babies with a pitch fork)" Jokes like these cause us to laugh which to King confirms his thesis "if we share brotherhood of a man, then we also share an insanity of man."
We all are in a condition of crossing the line between madness and sanity. That means that anyone and everyone can be unpredictable, dangerous and insane. Stephen King tries to bring the reader to a conclusion that horror is a way to "feed the gators," to calm the dark corners of evil in our soul. King agreed with Lennon and McCartney that said "all you need is love" just "as long as you keep the gators fed."