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  • Essay / They hide under your bed and in your head - 607

    They hide under your bed and in your headMonsters. These are the things from the stories that follow you home; they're hidden in your closet, under your bed, and they're invading your head. They are frightening, hideous and evil; they haunt your waking hours, keep you from sleeping, but above all, they reflect on ourselves and our civilization. We have all read many books containing monsters, having been introduced to them from a young age. Although the main purpose of these books was to teach us about fear and overcoming it, most of us simply understood how scary and evil the monsters were and, from that point on, took them on. greatly feared. Over the years, we have been taught not to fear monsters, but to fall in love with them. We've been so whitewashed by books like Twilight and Warm Bodies that we no longer focus on the threat of monsters, but only on their beauty. Nowadays, for a teenage girl, a typical "monster" is Edward Cullen, who, although he is a vampire, is not even a real monster. If you compare it to the original Dracula, you can see how much our c...