Analysis Of Strawberry Spring, By Stephen King

Do you ever wonder why you or other people like horror movies? What makes them so interesting? Why does the general society enjoy entertaining themselves with the horror genre? Well, Stephen King might have the answer to that. Mr. King strongly agrees with the idea that we might all have a little craving for watching such morbid scenes or reading about them, and creating our own gruesome scenario. Stephen King believes that humans crave horror for the purpose of facing our fears, to reestablish our feelings of normality, and to have an unusual type of ‘fun’, and he’s right. To begin with, Stephen points out that humans crave horror to prove that they can overcome their fears. Reading any of Mr. King’s stories helps people prove that, due to the fact that they tend to be a little more on the horrific side. For example, his short story, “Strawberry Spring” revolves around a mysterious murderer who kills only when the “strawberry

Compared to the narrator and the events of his short story, we “reestablish our feelings of essential normality” (King, “Why We Crave” 1). Considering that in our average lives, we rarely, if ever, encounter these sort of incidents. For instance, in the story, they discovered a girl had been killed in her car, where they find, “part of her in the backseat and part of her in the trunk.” (King, “Strawberry Spring” 4) In this case, we consider ourselves lucky that we haven’t, and hopefully never have to come across or be in such a morbid situation. We feel normal reading or watching horror like this because it helps us forget about all the bad in our lives as we imagine how they have it worse being tortured or murdered the way they were. Altogether, King did a good job of using his character Springheel Jack to make his point that, “we are still light-years away from true ugliness.” very clear. (King “Why We Crave”