Fear in Literature, Tuesday 4th period

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Jon looked downright peaky today (and annoyed at his santa hat), but he scrubbed his hands over his face and determined to soldier on. The board read: The Web: The fear of being controlled, trapped, or manipulated. Also arachnophobia.

"Spiders," he said with a shudder. "They're the most obvious manifestation here. But beyond that, the Web is manipulation. Someone or something is controlling you that you might not even know about, but your actions aren't your own. Hopefully today's reading got that across. Do you think it did? Do you think the protagonist is being controlled, or is it purely his imagination? Some combination of the two? Is free will even possible, even if it's your own nature controlling your decisions?"

Jon made it through the class, but he totally forgot to put anything on the board for next week.

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Re: Class activity

[x_discospider_x]

"I mean, okay, yeah, sure," Troy explained, or, at the very least, attempted to, but, really, there were no guaranteed with this kind of thing, "it seems fine now, but who's to say that by the end of the day, these," he pointed to his head and the Santa hat fitted nicely onto it, "arne't going to start trying to eat through our skulls to get to our brains? Any day now, all this cute, festive holiday cheer could turn violent and mean. Last year, I ended up in the clinic! Mean things were said about me! And they killed Wayne's snowmobile!"

So, someone still had a lot of pent-up trauma about Christmastime on Fandom Island, yes.

Re: Class activity

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

"That, um. That sounds bad," Jon agreed. "Hopefully it won't happen again. I was given to believe that these are usually fairly innocuous."