Mastery Of Fear In Mark Twain's A Monster Calls

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”says Mark Twain.The chapter started out with Conor waking up from another nightmare. He is trying to get away from the monster. He wakes up, noticing that something was going on. Somebody was calling his name. He couldn’t recognize the voice. Then he saw as the yew tree in his backyard rose and started creating a creature. Then he knew what was calling his name. The monster was coming to get him. He said it himself. Conor didn’t care. All this time, what he wanted was to leave. He stood up to him and to his surprise, it wasn’t the monster he was waiting for. Conor was heading into the monster’s mouth. In the first chapter of “A Monster Calls,” the author demonstrates Conor’s