The Influence Of Pride By Mike Enslin's Pride

Pride is a strange trait all people possess. Pride is a wonderful thing to have, however to much pride is a disaster waiting to happen. Too often, people let their pride get in the way. Occasionally we damage our pride by trying to keep it. Sometimes we need to put our pride aside and look at the things that are right in front of us. Mike Enslin didn’t even take the time to contemplate if the things Mr. Olin said was true until it was too late. He later found out that it is best to be mindful of the thing we call pride. Mike Enslin pride leads him down a road that sees two unexpected items become his saving grace. Mike Enslin’s pride lead him down a road that he didn’t want to travel. Mike Enslin influence his own fall. Mr. Olin, who has

Mike Enslin intense need to write his “Bill-payers” almost cost him his life. Mr. Enslin unintentionally put his life in the hands of two nonliving objects just for 11 minutes of a recorded tape entry that has incoherence sentences. The cigarette behind Mr. Enslin ear became a huge part of him for the last nine years. He is deeply attached to all the things the cigarette symbolizes. Like a moth to a flame, he loves the thrill he receives from the gloom, darkness, and destruction. He is so comfortable with death and destruction that he constantly surrounds himself by it. For example, he has sleep overs in grave yards, places where people are beheaded, and places where people are murdered for his books. Sitting on the desk in room 1408 was a book of matches. Luckily, Mike Enslin kept the matchbook for a souvenir. When the room began to melt, the match book came to his aid. He used the matchbook to set his shirt on fire, so he can escape room 1408. Setting fire to a cheap Hawaiian shirt was all it took to break the curse of room 1408 long enough so that Mike Enslin can escape. If it wouldn’t have been for his cigarette, the cheap Hawaiian shirt, and the box of matches he would have been just another statistic of room