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    Loser's Club Psychology

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    “The kids don’t need a clown to scare them – their parents are villainous enough”(Nicolauo). The film IT is relatively horrifying at times and a generally happy character, which in this instance presents itself as a clown, turns out to be a viscous, shape-shifting monster instead. However, a closer look reveals an evil far more terrifying being that hits close to home for the majority of the Losers Club. The majority of the adults within the movie IT show their children the true evils of the world

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    Spiders, snakes, clowns, heights, kidnappers, death, needles: everyone is scared of something. Why are humans predisposed to fear the things we sometimes have to deal with in everyday life? A phobia is an anxiety disorder. It can be defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which a person goes to great lengths to avoid. Typically, the avoiding action is extremely disproportional to the actual danger being posed, which explains why these fears are often recognized as “irrational.”

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    see a group of people dancing at what seemed like a party in a big house. Hesitantly, I slowly walk towards the huge house. Nervously, I just opened the door. Then I saw him... In the crowd of people who were running away from something with fear leaving with them, I saw him at the party. However, the teenaged boy was not running away. He just stood there . I didn’t know if he was in shocked or he was going to cry. It was one of those

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    In the beginning of the story the Montresor describes Fortunato as a “quack” which makes me picture him as a clown. Then tells about him wearing “motley” or a clown like suit (Lines 18-24). It is carnival and what better place to find a clown. As Poe goes on to tell the story he states“ My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met” (Lines 27-28). Fortunato is not very lucky at all! But he does not know at that time that Montresor is plotting his revenge. Montresor makes Fortunato believe that

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    What Is Fear?

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    Fear is a constant temptation in this life. Fear is a feeling or emotion that we must address and confront on a regular basis. Fear travels the globe and ensnares human minds at times like a slowly spreading flame that can grow into a powerful and destructive wildfire. Fear can emotionally paralyze humans, cloud judgement and divert the best plans of mankind. Fear can also be life saving when it stops those scared of heights from plummeting off the edge of the Grand Canyon. Fear of failure can

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    Fear: A Short Story

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    In the story we just read fear was a big part of the story. Many parts were scary and fear was a huge part. Fear can mess with many things in your body and make you think weird things are happening but nothing is really going on. Many people get scared easy because they get scared and imagine things. Imagining things can override anything. Fear and imaging goes along well because they both have something to do with the head and they can team up to cause other things. One time I was a little boy and

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    Horror In Dracula

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    literature genre due to the forms that fear can take. Fear in the horror genre comes from all sources, whether it is the way the story is approached, the way the story is told, the way the story is shown, or countless others. Above all other aspects of horror, though, the most iconic form that fear takes in the horror genre is the villain. Horror villains are some of the most unique character of literature. From vampires, werewolves, and demons to killer clowns from outer space, sentient tires, and

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    Goblins Soup for Halloween. Chase, one of Denim’s best friends called him up and asked him if wanted to go to a haunted trail and a clown sighting tonight with their other best friend Nollen. Denim and Denim’s friends all thought they were too old to go trick or treating since they are 14 years old. One thing Denim was scared of was clowns, his parents

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    haunted house. At first, I was very nervous to go in, but my brother reassured that I was fine and built my confidence. I entered the house and thought, “This isn’t too bad,” then a clown popped out and I screamed. I was always scared of clowns after that. All it took was one bad experience to trigger a fear of clowns. Transformations have been used in the telling of scary stories since the dawn of man. Anything can transform in a story, for example people, objects, animals, monsters, environments

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    “ I think it's cause of last night , she's terrified of clowns , I'm sure coming with us didn't make things better.” Colleen hugged her books looking down. “ Something isn't right here , I'm telling Y'all we shouldn't have went there , we disturbed something and now it's after us all.” They all stood looking

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