Creative Writing: The Alluring Attraction Of Fear

The Alluring Attraction of Fear

Sometimes being scared is fun, but not when you feel like you’re in danger. Proof of this is a personal experience of mine; When I was young, I had gotten into trouble and my parents told me to put my nose in a specific corner while they went to the store. I stayed there for what felt like eternity and all of a sudden, my sister starts running down the hall screaming bloody murder saying, “Run Sheridyn! Run!” Immediately I start screaming, shaking, running, and crying all at the same time. Then my other sister came out of the hall wearing a Scream costume and started chasing me. I become even more terrified and this causes me to fall. Before I had time to process what had happened, they both stopped what they were doing to laugh while I felt like my life flashed before my eyes. In that moment, I knew that something about myself was different.

One example of human transformation is in Frankenstein when Victor Frankenstein becomes sick after investing everything of himself into making his monster. Before getting the idea of bringing an inanimate object to life, Victor was a healthy and athletic 20-something year old and then he started to become very weak and sick, the longer and harder he worked. A second example is in “Sleep Paralysis”, where a person goes from a sleeping state to completely conscious and unable to move or speak. A third example is the picture of the girl with the gnome mask; she has a child’s body, but she has an old man’s face ( this could possibly be symbolic