In this essay, Why We Crave Horror Movies Mr. King has established some causes that may be responsible for our craving for horror movies.
The causes that he speculated are, our desire to prove that we do not have fear for anything, we also feel that it is essential for us to re-establish a sense of normality in our lives by overcoming fear and also being able to overcome our fear and have the sense of adrenal rush in our body is fun.
He uses four distinctive strategies in order to convey his speculations to the readers and they are, 1) The use of a shocking statement as a introduction of his easy, 2) The establishment of causes and the use of humor to present them, 3) The use of analogies related to the daily experiences of our lives, and the last but not the least 4) the usage of examples to justify the analogies that he established throughout the essay and he also the presentation of a counter argument for the readers who may not agree with him.
Mr. King begins his essay …show more content…
He uses the example of a child getting reward such as “chocolate covered graham crackers” and the acknowledgement from its aunt, uncle and parents for not hitting the annoying younger sibling and also the child getting punished for hitting its younger siblings. He feels that when show our best behavior that is inspired by our good emotion we get reward from the society and whereas when we show our bad behavior that is inspired by our bad emotion we are not acknowledged by our society. He feels our emotions are like the muscles of a human anatomy and sometimes it is necessary to exercise our emotions in order to maintain its functionality and watching horror movie and letting our emotions loose is an exercise that our mind needs to keep our