Indledning
Some people like to experience horror, others find it fascinating and others do not want to experience it but are still tempted to experience it anyways.
But what defines horror and why do we get so obsessed with it? Horror is fiction whose purpose is to frighten, disturb or create fear in the reader/audience.
In Stephen Kings short story, “Strawberry Spring” (1978), is all main objectives manage to unfold in and with the story is about an unnamed narrator who without consciousness might been a brutal serial killer. The short story is written in 1st narrator.
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Uddrag
The narrator is an unreliable narrator. The narrator is an unnamed narrator who is a student at New Sharon Teachers' College (l.11, p. 7).
The narrator tells the story from a subjective point of view, where in the end he is turns out to be the brutal serial killer “Springheel Jack”.
His subjective point of view can be seen by his intervening with some remarks / commentary on the victims and the whole situation: “She was ugly but cute” (l.11, p. 8)
When the narrator has a subjective point of view, it enables the reader to believe that the narrator is reliable, but he turns out to be an unreliable narrator as after every murder he commits he has memory loss from the murder of the nights:
“I can’t tell her because I don’t remember” (l.34, p. 10). Besides that, he also shows an uncertainty about whether he is the killer, which appears to the narrator as an unreliable narrator.
Another reason he is unreliable is his inner self. The narrator is not proven about his inner self. However, he gets a sense of who he really is in through the short story.
The narrator feels being drawn towards the dark fog of the strawberry spring. He describes the fog in a romantic way, which shows that he is engulfed by the fog:
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