What I Learned From Our First Basic Emotions

Fear is one of the most basic and vital aspects of human behavior. To our ancestors, it was often the only thing that kept them alive, but today, with less and less things in the natural world people have to be afraid of, it usually just keeps them from working towards their goals. Fear can prevent one from pursuing their dream in that it forces us to be afraid of the future and can act as a catalyst for people giving up.

Fear is the feeling of being scared or afraid, or does it mean more? Fear can change someone and make them into a different person. In the book, Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson (2000), shows how fear can change the lives of people. The story is about a 14 year old girl Mattie, who lives in Philadelphia when the devastating yellow fever epidemic of 1793 hits the nation’s capitol. Soon the fever hits her home and Mattie has to leave, enduring many frightening adventures trying to survive. This story illustrates when people are afraid, their fear and sadness can make them lose their sense of identity.

The idea of fear is a fairly simple concept, yet it carries the power to consume and control lives. Fears have stemmed from an inadvertent psychological response to situations deemed threating to one’s personal safety, but have evolved into a complex web of often illogical misconceptions which are able to cloud a person’s judgment and result in situations often worse than originally intended. Fears can be hard to quell, but it has been shown the best way to overcome fears is often to face them, as author James Baldwin asserted when he wrote, “To defend oneself against fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.” Baldwin makes strongly qualified statement, and his idea fears must be faced to

Fear is a common human emotion, but how everyone responds to fear varies. The way we react to fear could depend on a very large spectrum of things. It could depend on the situation or on what one fears, on the person who is expressing fears’ personality, the events leading up what is inflicting the fear, or even past experiences. It could be any number of things. Many different people could be in the exact same situation and fearing the same thing, but each of them may have completely different reactions.

Fear is a common emotion that humans feel when something that they don’t understand occurs.

Usually, fear is something we conquer, fight , and overcome, but why not analyze the fear and possibly appreciate the stories behind it. We deal with fear everyday, but the best people to deal with fear are people who think scientifically as well as creatively this is shown on page one of Walker’s Transcript, “ a good reader has an artist’s passion,... but just as importantly, the reader’s also needs the coolness of judgement of a scientist (Walker 1).” When dealing with our fears we often dread the most outrageous and obscure things, while the deadlier and more subtle situations fly over our head and more often than not come

Fear can cause our thinking processes to be distorted and irrational. It may create negative anticipation of things to come. It could cause excessive worrying of what others think or a fear of God’s wrath (Nichols, 2010). Fear sometimes makes the emotions of the individual get out of control with anger, anxiety, depression, and worrying (Nichols, 2010). In the book, all of these emotions are addressed and insight is given to help overcome them. It is important to do the necessary hard work to untie these knots in order to bring a person back to a healthy emotional state of mind. If the fear is not dealt with properly, it can also lead to negative physiological changes to the body as the immune system is weakened

Karen Thompson Walker’s “What Fear Can Teach Us” indicates how fear influences our everyday actions and

Fear is an emotional response made by a threat, which causes a change in brain and organ function, as well as behavior. It is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that something or someone is dangerous and likely to cause paint or threat. Usually fear is caused by something traumatizing that has happened in one’s life. In order to overcome fear, you have to face it. Avoiding fear prevents people from moving forward and standing up to fearful things help move past that fear. (Towey)

One thing I learned about fear is that it can basically act for us. With fear humans can make critical decisions that they wouldn’t dare make without fear edging them on. A story that particularly shocked me was the story of a young woman named Kelly. She followed her

Fear may seem like a negative, but what kind of a story would it be without it? Throughout Frankenstein, peers presentations, and The Horse and His boy it has become evident to me that fear is relevant in every story. It can result in so many emotions including excitement, accomplishment, and motivation at times, but just plain failure at others. Fear motivates, breaks down, and teaches characters who they really are in times of panic. It also enthralls readers to stay tuned into the book and interested in what is going on.

Fear is something that large amounts of people have encountered at least once at some point in their lives. It has been said to have caused a variety of outcomes, many of them being largely negative. Therefore, it is a common human response to react to fear by counteracting it with positivity and/or success. The idea people have of what fear is depends on the person. In the article “How Fear Works”, for example, fear is defined as a “chain reaction in the brain that starts with a stressful stimulus and ends with the release of chemicals” (Layton 1). The website “Psychology Today” defines fear another way, calling it “a vital response to physical and emotional danger” ("Fear Paranoia”). There are several other definitions people have on the

Molly described Sophia as slow developing up until now (Cahill & Bowyer, 2015). She said she did not have much support when first had them (Cahill & Bowyer, 2015). She described her relationship with her child as very nurturing and loving (Cahill & Bowyer, 2015). Molly stated sophia is a good sleeper, and would sleep until 9am (Cahill & Bowyer, 2015). There are daily routines for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Cahill & Bowyer, 2015). Molly is concerned with Sophia social life down the line (Cahill & Bowyer, 2015). Molly states she wished she had a nanny to help her with the children (Cahill & Bowyer, 2015). However, the following year the girls will be in Head Start for a few hours each day which will give her some time (Cahill & Bowyer, 2015).

Fear is crucial to life, without fear there would be no courage, and with out courage the world would simply be boring; think about it. Imagine your deepest fear, now imagine that it is impossible to feel fear towards it, or anything for that matter. It is so odd how motivation like fear can change your perspective, and enlighten the soul. Fear adds flavor, fear adds spice, but in the end it must be mixed with something nice. It was a night as simple as any other when I experienced the biggest dear of my life; the shadowed blue sky a home of sleeping beings. The night of March 2016, when I was just 17.

The universal basic emotions that are joy-happiness, interest-excitement, surprise, sadness, anger, disgust, contempt, fear, shame and guilt (taken from the slides) both brothers show these emotions throughout the film for example when both Jamal and salim saw their mother get killed right in front of their eyes they had both fear and anger and throughout the movie you can see that at least for salim that maybe since he saw that he feels as if he is obliged to take some sort of revenge for jamal you don't notice that in the film. When jamal and salim got rescued by marmon at first they both felt joy-happiness because they were going through such rough times and here comes this guy who just saves them from what they had to endure on a day to day basis but later on when salim sees another boy getting his eyes burned so it would make him a better begger he felt the emotion of fear jamal didn’t see that firsthand himself.