Fear Essay

Fear

By Brad Wahlgren
Fear is the endless struggle with which people must confront throughout the course of their lifetimes. Phobias mandates what we do, and how do something. Fear keeps people from standing out, and exposing new ideas, yet it can also keep people from fitting in. With fear dictating people’s lives, people truly do not have a fighting chance to succeed and become the best they can be.
Fear happens as often in writing as apples grow on apple trees. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is another one of countless books in which this occurs. Francie fears for her whole family’s life after in a saddening death. Francie’s father Johnny was in and out of occupations, but still managed to get enough to put food on the table, and now the only way to get money is for her mother to work twice as hard. Even with the sacrifices Francie’s mom makes, and hard work she does, she can only bring in a meager and insufficient amount of money. Francie begins to worry what will become of herself and her sibling in the possible event of her mother death casualty. Even before her father died Francie worried that the beer her father consumed would be his doom.
In addition to that, fear is something that can be overcome with age. Such as the classic anxiety of the dark that is commonly scene in little kids, but they learn to overcome their fear and deal with it. Although there are some fears that can’t be conquered until one reaches a seasoned age. Death is one of the primary fear, for it occurs in everybody. The fear of no longer existing or functioning properly is enough to make the hair on the back of anyone’s neck stand on end. In A Tree Grows in Brooklyn this is perhaps Francie’s greatest fear. While shopping she contemplates an old man who is living by himself, and is not desired by his fellows. He is a lone wolf and lives on the street. What Francie fears is his extreme age. Francie has a very common fear. She has a fear of age when your body stops functioning properly and people begin to overlook you. This all comes when one makes the lifelong journey from age to experience.
Fear is something that will happen to us all at multiple points in our lives, especially at relevant moments when money or love is at stake. Although when fear bites us we must bite back and shine for if it controls us we will never be able to accomplish feats, or stand out with new ideas.