Deep Dark Fears, By Fran Krause
Join me to explore the most hideous,
hilarious, and bizarre fears!
We all have hateful, irrational fears –
from being alone, to being touch by a ghost while sleeping, to ending up pregnant
by a hug, or slip and gauge your eyes in a wrought iron fence, to be eaten
alive by bed worms, or to be cut in half by an elevator drop. Deep Dark Fears
is illustrated by the cartoonist Fran Krause, who shared in this book the
terrors of 101 individuals who sent their fears to him. The illustrator converted these fears into vivid
comic drawings to show humanity and attract readers to literacy.
Krause’s illustration of the one hundred
and one fears, portray cartoonish images on the different fears that people
experience.
Many people live with insignificant terrors.
Whether are irrational or logical fears,
they cause disturbance in the person’s life. Fears can be created by false
information that children received at a young age. Adults do not perceive the distress that
untrue information may cause to a child. A fear can be develop by a misinterpretation.
Fears may also be caused by bad experiences, and/or illogical thoughts.
In Deep Dark Fears, the readers will enjoy
viewing and reading people’s fears turned into Comics. Phobias are transformed
into humorous terrors. Readers will be able to make connections with this book
because the fears may be silly, but very common.
Pros: Fears
turned into comics in short and funny descriptions. The illustrations are
colorful and silly, grasp the reader’s attention. The realistic dark fears are
relative to reader’s background.
Cons:
The book cover is dark, making it seem a “scary book”. When in reality, is a
hilarious books about silly realistic phobias.
The complexity of the book is a perfect fit for
teenagers, it is a great book that will inspire and motivate young adults to literacy.
The best part of the book are the
illustrations, funny, connected to the fear’s description.
These are most of the fears illustrated in the book:
Illustrator Turns People’s Deepest and Darkest Fears
into Comics
One of the fears illustrated in the book, very funny!
Hello Yaneli,
ReplyDeleteWhen I was first reading your post I was just like, “Yeah, okay everyone has something they are afraid of. Being alone sounds reasonable, being touched by a ghost- umm okay I guess that makes sense, getting pregnant by a hug- what is this book getting at?!” I found myself more intrigued as I read on and felt like I needed to read this ASAP. I did like your personal input about what fear is and how someone develops a fear. On a side note, I almost looked over your post because of your con about the book looking scary! I hate scary stuff!
Overall, your post was engaging and your resources were really interesting to look at.
I guess I don’t have to get the book with all these illustrations!