The Fear of The Boogie Man

The fear of the Boogie Man

 The monsters in literature that stick with us through the decades are not the ones that come purely from imagination. The monsters that we write about, think about, and make movies about most are either the monsters that we create or the monsters we become. We are afraid of the part of ourselves that is most like the monsters we fear.

One example that supports this idea would be the Boogie Man. The Boogie Man is a monster we fear because he/she/it represents the part of ourselves that is fear. There is no real Boogie Man and no one has ever actually seen him. I imagine him to be a dark shadow, so that’s he hides in dark places. The Boogie Man is made of fear because people were afraid of the dark. Everyone thought it would be a good idea to make up a monster that hides under your bed, so they have a reason to be scared.

What this monster represent inside our selves is fear. This monster was created on fear. I think, since people were afraid of the dark, and everyone was telling about the Boogie Man. That is probably why people started to believe that there is someone in their room. We fear this monster because everyone thinks if it comes out from under your bed then it will get you. The monsters in our closet our under our bed, like the Boogie Man, are unknown. People are afraid of what might happen. Everyone has different imagination, so they all think of different horrible things.

Eventually we all grow out of being scared of these things. We all learn that it isn’t real. We learn that we are all scared of things sometimes, and we can’t help it. It is okay to be scared of monsters because everyone has been scared of something in their life. No one really thinks that the real thing that scares them is the fear inside us.

The Boogie Man isn’t a real human being, but it was created by our imaginations. The monster inside us is the scariest monster of all. It reveals the truth and also reveals our weaknesses within ourselves.