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A Literary Analysis Of 'The Elevator Of William Sleator'

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The Elevator. Literary Analysis
What is fear? Fear is a feeling induced by perceived danger or threat that occurs in certain types of organism how does the author illustrate the main character's inability to overcome its fears william sleator shows that martin is unable to overcome his fears by building suspense because he is claustrophobic paranoid may suffer cacomorphobia. I am scared of dolls which the scientific meaning is Pediophobia because i feel like they have minds of their own and one time when i was little my cousin would move the doll when i wasn't looking to make me think it was alive i have a longer story on where the fear started it all started when i was watching the movie chucky with my cousins i didn't know what it was about

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