The Elevator By William Sleator Analysis

“Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.” - Anonymous. In the small town of Jordan, Minnesota, a women named Krista lives there. She has emetophobia. When she was younger, in fifth grade she had gotten sick with the torturous stomach bug. At this time, she did not care that she vomited it was just an “oh well” sort of thing. A year passed and the summer of her sixth grade year began. Krista went with her friend Susan, to pick up her siblings from camp. While they were all eating lunch outside at their camp, one of Susan’s siblings began to vomit. Krista began to sweat all over, she had racing thoughts about her becoming sick, or getting puked on by one of Susan's siblings. Her thoughts were racing and she was panicking big time. When they all started walking back to the car to head home, Susan’s other sibling began to vomit. Now Krista is beyond the panic stage and onto the part where she starts to cry and cry because of how scared she is about getting sick. At that moment she realized she had a fear of throwing up. Emetophobia is a common fear which affects people’s daily life.

Martin, the main character of “The elevator”, is afraid of elevators. His situation got even worse when he moved into his new apartment with his dad. The apartment was old and dirty. The elevator that was in their building could only hold three people. The stairs were just as bad. They were dark and dirty as well. To make matters worse, they lived on the seventeenth floor. Later on in the story, Martin breaks his leg and is forced to ride the elevator. Martin’s dad thinks he’s being a coward and makes fun of him in a way. His dad doesn’t think he should worry about this woman and doesn’t really listen to what Martin says about this lady who always stares at him in the elevator. In William Sleator’s “The Elevator,” readers learn that you should

In life, one must overcome their fears in order to achieve or successfully attain a certain goal in their mind. The short story “Through the Tunnel”, by Doris Lessing tells us about how Jerry builds confidence and maturity throughout the story, by overcoming his fear of going through the dark and scary tunnel underneath the water. The author portrays the idea of overcoming one’s fear to achieve a goal through Jerry, who was once a childish and isolated character, had begun his risky adventure of going through the tunnel to prove his worth to a group of boys and along the way discovers what he truly wants. Over time he becomes more mature and in the end, gain self-acceptance.

Fear is an existing emotion that begins in childhood and progresses into adulthood. Children ages zero to two fear separation of parents, loud noises, and strangers while three to six year olds fear imaginary beings such as ghost and monsters (Smith). It is understandable that fear progresses in one’s lifetime, morphing from childish fears into more real-like scenarios. Propaganda, especially during wartime, appealed more to the fears of adults, as artists were targeting that

Jack Finney is an American author that has written many books in his lifetime, one being “Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket”, a short story about a man who risked his life for his job. In this short story fear takes over this man’s body, he is faced with acrophobia, which is the fear of heights, and many other challenges. There is a lot of suspense created in this story and Jack Finney uses internal and external conflicts and cause and effect to fabricate that suspense.

In Kevin Brockmeier’s “The Ceiling,” a husband, the narrator, retells the day of his son's birthday because he remembers it for two particular reasons - firstly, he notices for the first time that there was something quite strange about the sky and secondly, he analyzes his wife, Melissa, realizing she is not behaving like her normal self when she suddenly utters the remark: "My life is a mess." As the story folds, the narrator’s puzzling curiosity is continuously fixated on the black object in the sky as it had started to slowly descend closer to the town without coming to terms that, at the same time, his marriage and relationship with his wife are currently in jeopardy as it all begins to disintegrate before his eyes. It was not until

In life, we don’t think about the importance of conversing. But without it, think about how hard it would be to communicate to each other. In the story Trapped by Michael Northrop, the author uses dialogue to set up the problem. Without the characters communicating to each other, really there would be no story. I mean, yes a story doesn’t have to have dialogue, but it won’t keep moving. We won’t hear from other characters at all. And for setting up the problem in Trapped the characters communicate a lot about what to do, since there’s seven teenages with no adults trapped in a school. They speak a lot to each other to address the problem. In Trapped by Michael Northrop, the author uses description, actions, and dialogue to set up the problem.

Fernando, a Mexican-American male who was born in Los Angeles, California. He is 26 years old and currently in an exclusive relationship. Furthermore, he is a senior Mechanical Engineer major in University of California, Irvine. Fernando has been having Acrophobia, a phobia of height, for almost seven years, and every time he participates in any activities which involving climbing or elevating to a high place, he becomes anxious and fearful of the height which results him in incapability of accomplishing the activities. When Fernando experienced the fear of height for the first time, he was taking an airplane to Tijuana, Mexico alone. His first separation from his mother and siblings caused him distress and pain which amplified his

”the sound of stealthy flight” (10) shows that a child’s fear is overpowering, deepening our understanding of the amount of attention that the author pays to each sound that others would often disregard.

Introduction: Almost everyone has an irrational fear or two—of mice, for example, or your annual dental checkup. For most people, these fears are minor. But when fears become so severe that they cause tremendous anxiety and interfere with your normal life, they’re called phobias. A phobia is an intense fear of something that, in reality, poses little or no actual danger. Common phobias and fears include closed-in places, heights, highway driving, flying insects, snakes, and needles. However, we can develop phobias of virtually anything. Most phobias develop in childhood, but they can also develop in adults. If you

Texas. The quote for this chapter means that some towns or cities increase more or less rapidly in the sense of technological advances. Not all towns or cities can increase rapidly because of wealth or way of life.

Enforcer for the Darkfall Mountain Pack, Isaac Bennett has always wanted tabby shifter Oren Frye. Sexy, snarky and smart, Oren embodies all the qualities Isaac wants in a mate—except Oren choose Isaac’s best friend. Isaac tried to do the decent thing. To forget, Isaac moves to a new town and pack, but time only worsens the ache and longing.

“Yet, walking down the path with her, he blurted out, ‘I’d like to go and have a look at those rocks down there,’’ (Lessing 1). During the short story, “Through the Tunnel,” Lessing shows that Jerry has an interest in breaking away from his mother early on in the story. He shows a passion for wanting to go to the wild bay, instead of staying with his mother at the safe beach for their vacation. Jerry’s transformation from boy to a young man is revealed in the settings of the safe beach, wild bay, and the journey through the tunnel.

The novel “Flight” was a very interesting story about a young boy who seems to be lost in life and has an identity crisis which leads him down the wrong path and makes the poor decision to shoot up a bank. To have the boy come to the conclusion what he was doing was wrong Sherman Alexie sends him to different places and times to show teach him something more, almost like the Scrooge and the many ghosts he encounters in “A Christmas Carol”. I will discuss a few of his “flights” analyzing each flight and his journey from Zits to Michael through emotional encounters and tough lessons.

Some fears that are common are fear of the dark, thunder-lightning storms, and supernatural beings (boogy man/ someone something under the bed).I remember always crying that there was a fox at my window by my bed. Later the fear tend to turn to more fear that are movie or television furled or come from scary events. Children can have a phobia of school that may come from harsh teachers, stress and bullies. Children of the age five to seven may have problems being away from home. The years eleven to thirteen can be hard if there are harsh living conditions in which create anxieties, even problems in school.