Within the average human life we pass by twelve murderers in our lifetime. After reading this creepy fact, the strong feeling of wanting more comes upon us. Even true hair-raising facts like this in real life are exactly as King hypothesized in his essay “Why We Crave Horror”. To face the fears that we have, to re-establish our feelings of normality, and to have an experience of a peculiar sort of fun are three precise claims by Stephen King that within the human condition we do crave horror.
The human desire for horror helps us face our fears. Throughout life we all have fears and at one point must face them to gain victory over the fears. For instance, by proceeding to watch a horror film, or reading horror, or even just standing in front of ten people speaking , “we are daring the nightmare(s)”(King, “Why We Crave” 1). As a result of daring our nightmares, we are facing our fears. Throughout our daily lives, we face fears. For instance, reflect back to when you were a child and a story on the news about, “a girl was killed on New Sharon campus”(King, “Strawberry Spring” 5) comes on and you would not dare walk outside alone. Now think about when you began to become older and walked outside to throw away trash or walk from your car into the house, well you faced the fear of a killer being in the dark. Reading “Strawberry Spring” by Stephen King or any other horror story or watching a horror story causes us to face our fears. Our hunger for horror renews the feeling of normality within us humans. While reading the events of “Strawberry Spring,” we “re-establish our feelings of essential normality” (King, “Why We Crave” 1). In other words, we feel normal after reading about Springheel Jack, the serial killer in “Strawberry Spring”. For example, in the beginning of “Strawberry Spring”, the dead girl in the Animal Sciences parking lot …show more content…
Despite the grotesque fact of the killing of multiple women in the short story “Strawberry Spring,” the events conclude into a “peculiar sort of fun” (King, “Why We Crave” 2). Throughout the story “Strawberry Spring”, we encounter surprises like the horrific visions of dead women and a plot twist at the end give us a thrilling and entertaining feeling. For instance, when we find “the dead girl” (King,“Strawberry Spring”, 1) we encounter a fearful and suspenseful feeling wanting to know who the killer is and why he did it and what's going to happen next. We run into innumerable amounts of these suspenseful moments and the want to know what's next all throughout the story from the beginning to the end. Next, we come to the end of the story and the surprise ending shows up, “[Narrator’s wife] thinks I was with another woman last night. And oh dear God, I think so too.” (King, “Strawberry Spring” 5). Most of us are thinking “Wow! I never saw a that coming!” or maybe “He was the killer all along!?” a few of us may of even predicted the ending giving us an odd feeling which made the story a strange kind of pleasure to read. Finally, King says that today, “football has become the voyeur’s version of combat” (“Why We Crave” 2). This shows that we now today still have a thirst for violence and pain, but instead of public gladiator fights it is in sports like football and boxing. With that, the short story, “Strawberry
The human desire for horror helps us face our fears. Throughout life we all have fears and at one point must face them to gain victory over the fears. For instance, by proceeding to watch a horror film, or reading horror, or even just standing in front of ten people speaking , “we are daring the nightmare(s)”(King, “Why We Crave” 1). As a result of daring our nightmares, we are facing our fears. Throughout our daily lives, we face fears. For instance, reflect back to when you were a child and a story on the news about, “a girl was killed on New Sharon campus”(King, “Strawberry Spring” 5) comes on and you would not dare walk outside alone. Now think about when you began to become older and walked outside to throw away trash or walk from your car into the house, well you faced the fear of a killer being in the dark. Reading “Strawberry Spring” by Stephen King or any other horror story or watching a horror story causes us to face our fears. Our hunger for horror renews the feeling of normality within us humans. While reading the events of “Strawberry Spring,” we “re-establish our feelings of essential normality” (King, “Why We Crave” 1). In other words, we feel normal after reading about Springheel Jack, the serial killer in “Strawberry Spring”. For example, in the beginning of “Strawberry Spring”, the dead girl in the Animal Sciences parking lot …show more content…
Despite the grotesque fact of the killing of multiple women in the short story “Strawberry Spring,” the events conclude into a “peculiar sort of fun” (King, “Why We Crave” 2). Throughout the story “Strawberry Spring”, we encounter surprises like the horrific visions of dead women and a plot twist at the end give us a thrilling and entertaining feeling. For instance, when we find “the dead girl” (King,“Strawberry Spring”, 1) we encounter a fearful and suspenseful feeling wanting to know who the killer is and why he did it and what's going to happen next. We run into innumerable amounts of these suspenseful moments and the want to know what's next all throughout the story from the beginning to the end. Next, we come to the end of the story and the surprise ending shows up, “[Narrator’s wife] thinks I was with another woman last night. And oh dear God, I think so too.” (King, “Strawberry Spring” 5). Most of us are thinking “Wow! I never saw a that coming!” or maybe “He was the killer all along!?” a few of us may of even predicted the ending giving us an odd feeling which made the story a strange kind of pleasure to read. Finally, King says that today, “football has become the voyeur’s version of combat” (“Why We Crave” 2). This shows that we now today still have a thirst for violence and pain, but instead of public gladiator fights it is in sports like football and boxing. With that, the short story, “Strawberry