Fear Of The Book Cover Essay

I do agree with this because for the longest time humans were afraid of the dark because of the dangers it held. Then, once humans were able to defend themselves and had means of making torches for light, humans began to venture into the darkness, but they always had a light with them. The fear of the dark stayed with them because it wasn't that they were scared they would be unable to protect themselves, what scared them is that they had no idea what they would need to protect themselves from, nor did they have any warning of when it might attack, torch light could only protect them so much. Even now this fear exists even amongst the bravest people today the fear of the darks still lingers. And even for those who don't believe in the supernatural, the books and movies about them place the seed of doubt in your mind. The fear

And these books play to those emotions but whilst we are in a safe environment, therefore allowing us to enjoy these feelings because we know it can't happen to us, the lights are on we can see everything, there is no way anything could sneak up on us. But in the very back of our mind we know this isn't true, something could indeed sneak up on us, and this is why we still get scared, but it's sort of a nice feeling. See, the thing about fear, it produces a chemical called adrenaline. Adrenaline id not only produced by fear though, fear is also produced by excitement such as the feeling you get when you go on a date with someone you really like, or when you are reading a book and you are at the climax and everything is happening and you just want everything to be ok. It's the feeling you get on a roller-coaster just before you go down the first hill, you don't want to crash onto the ground after a really high drop, at a really fast speed, but you want the feeling you get as you are hurtling down the track and then all of a sudden you aren't falling