Assignment 6: Fear Questions

Fear Questions:1. Do you like to be scared? Why or why not? In what settings are you okay with being frightened?

· Ha, if anyone can find someone in planet Earth that likes begin scared then I would be pretty amazed. To answer the question do I like to be scared the answer is No I sure do not like begin scared. Because the feeling you get isn’t a pleasant feeling at all. I enjoy going to scare movies just to be scared and get that adrenaline rush. Another place I enjoy begin scared are haunted house rides and amusement parks.

2. What scares you? Are there things you fear? Are there things in our world you consider horrific? These do not have to be about ghosts or monsters. (One of Stephen King's bestselling horror novels was about a dog.) Perhaps you are afraid to ski or afraid of snakes. Maybe you hate being alone in your house at night. Maybe you are afraid of big cities. Where do your fears come from? Are you more scared by blood and guts terror or by subtle the possibility of something horrible happening?

· Not having full control or understanding over a situation where i know that i should be able to change or stop the feeling I’m getting. By that I mean like getting lost where you don’t know where to go and don’t have an understanding of the situation or make it stop when you want. A lot of things also scare me the common things that scare many people. I fear losing my brother or sister in a public place and never finding them. There are so many thing in this world that I can consider horrific maybe its because i don’t understand the entire situation. Right now i think its pretty horrific what’s happening to the child in Iraq where they have to live in fear every day wondering weather today might be the day that they are killed. I couldn’t imagine that feeling where every morning you wonder weather your even going to make it to school and back. Or weather your parents are going to be home later. Living in the fear of death has to be one of the most horrific things happening in this world. Many of our fears come from not understanding what is truly happening or having a previous perception of something that was completely wrong so you live in fear of it until you final understand what it that you fear.
3. What, in your opinion, is a good definition for madness? What would a person have to do to be considered "mad" by you?

· Eric M. Wangongu’s Definition of madness: A point of insanity that has gone past just begin mad. People reach madness when they finally snap over from being mad.
· A mad person is a person who has just lost it. Common sense isn’t common for them anymore. The things they do just don’t connect with the things you would expect out of the normal person. People who just do crazy things that make people question what they might be thinking. Not normal kind of crazy like someone jumping into a frozen lake without clothing, but that other kind of crazy they kind of crazy that you find in an insane asylum. Those people who shot up schools i.e. that V-Tech shooter was a “mad” man.

4. Poe writes about a man driven to madness. What drives people to madness today in your opinion? How does someone go from seemingly normal to insane (at least temporarily)?

· I really have no idea what drives people do madness its something that is so different for so many people. People just worry about to many things that don’t really matter so they are driven mad by those things. By worrying to much about things they think mean everything when they actually mean nothing.