Emotion and Fear

Fear Fear is a common human emotion that everybody experiences at least once in their life. Fear works like an instinct and can actually be helpful because it gives signal that you should be careful and alert. However, humans respond to fear with different types of physical signs such as sweating, shaking, and increased heartbeat. I have felt this emotion multiple times when I was in my public speaking class as a sophomore. In the book Native Son fear controls one of the characters and it leads him to do something he doesn’t desire.
Fear is a feeling we have all experienced one time as a child or adult. We respond to this emotion differently depending on the situation we are in. Fear is something we can’t control it’s something we do automatically when we feel like we are in danger. We can relate this towards animals due to the fact of their reaction when they feel threatened by something or someone.
During my sophomore year I took public speaking to help me improve my skills of presenting in a large group of people. At first I thought it was going to be an easy class that will help me improve my social skills with other people. I was wrong, when I had to present I was terrified. I was trembling with fear , I didn’t want to mess up nor get laughed at all I was thinking about was that. But once I got it done the fear went away it was only temporarily and as time went by I felt less scared to go up and present. I believe I got more comfortable and didn’t let the fear control me.
In the book Native Son we meet a character called Bigger. He doesn’t know how to react in different situations that life puts him through. Bigger ends up killing Mary because he is terrified of being found with her alone in the bedroom. He fears that people might imagine something wrong. He thought that the only solution was to kill her but he was wrong. He got into more problems because of her murder.
Humans have many emotions that we can’t control, one of them is fear. Being afraid