Strawberry Spring By Stephen King Analysis

Picture this scene: it’s a nice bright summer day at the amusement park (Six Flags for instance) and the roller coasters are infamous. fear these roller coasters and the movies give plenty of fear of people flying off and the ride breaks, yet people go anyway. This same concept can be said for many things, especially when it comes to Stephen King and his stories of horror. People know of the fear he can induce with his stories and their broad detail and interesting plot. Such as the short story, “Strawberry Springs” people who have read his stories do it to show that they can and that. “we are not afraid” (King, “Why we Crave” 1). The story itself has many deaths and a few in particular give out a gruesome end to the victim. The narrator goes into to vulgar detail stating that.“The guy killed somebody else last night and now they're hunting all over for it. For what?... Her head” (King, “Strawberry” 3). This shocking reveal keeps the reader on the edge of their seat and shows just how gruesome the killer in the fog really is. Secondly, many people have insecurities and doubts about themselves and that's what helps these stories and movies so well. For example, in his short story “Strawberry Spring” the narrator who had no idea he was the killer describes how he loves the cold, foggy …show more content…
This notion of emotional exercise is show in the short story “Strawberry Spring” when they talk of deaths in the story such as the one of Adelle Parkins.“Adelle Parkins was killed, they found part of her in the back seat and part of her in the trunk” (king 4).The detail and gore of these deaths are the equivalent as Stephen King's “Why we Crave Horror” puts it.“the horror film had become the modern version of the public lynching” (2). This shows that we use these as emotional stabilizers to not act out on our inner and dark