Honors

This weeks article was on urban legends and how they affect society. It had lots of different urban legend stories which talked about how they taught kids and teenagers life lessons. There were stories about cooking babies, murdering babysitters children, “lover’s lanes” and hooks. These storyies all have major themes through out urban legend myths. Most of them have death, sexual content, and women. Most of the time the legend is happening to the women.

I think they were created to teach lessons. We have some very sick and demented stories which are intended to use fear in order to scare someone into behaving like there wanted to. I think this is a very good use of fear because everyone has it. This stories however are intended for a younger crowd not for adults. I have heard almost all of these stories before so non of them surprised me. The article also talks about how the Urban Legends are localized to where you live but the main idea or story is the same. I think that almost all places have ghost stories that are meant to scare and teach. I personally do not know if i believe in ghosts or not. I think that all of the stories are to nonfactual to either prove it or disprove it. I like to hear the ghost stories though because i like seeing everyone’s reactions to the stories.