Stephan King starts with a very provocative statement. He states his opinion that "we are all mentally ill." The writer used inductive reasoning here because he starts out on something general such as calling everybody mentally ill and going into specific behaviors which people tend to do. He supports that statement by saying how people talk to themselves when not in public, how they pick their nose and make weird faces when no body is around to watch. Also, he gives examples of how many people have "hysterical fear-of snakes, the dark, the tight place and those final worms and grubs that are waiting so patiently …show more content…
The writer titled the essay "Why We Crave Horror Movies?" The reason for this is to make us, the readers, aware of why we crave to see, hear and read about murder, death and blood. People in the world have the craving for watching the violence through horror movies, hearing spooky stories at a campfire, and reading about ghosts. There are many crimes, violence, terrorism going around in the real world and these events are printed in news papers, television news, etc. People read and watch these events but it just does not seem enough. People want to "pay five bucks and dare their nightmare," to watch fictional