Sometimes what you see or hear are not always true. In the story it says, “The thing is- fear cant hurt you any more than a dream.” (chapter 7) This represents when you have a dream, none of it is true but you still get scared and have that thought in your mind. When you fear something, you can get scared from objects that are not even real. For example in the story with the parachute man, they are afraid and not sure what it is. Now that they saw the man. They tell the boys but they make him have claws. They heard that it was the beast. But really it was a man who died when he jumped out of the plane and landed on the mountain. …show more content…
It came darkly, uncertainty. The shrill screaming that rose before the beast was like a pain. The beast stumbled into the horseshoe.” Seconds later they say “Simon was crying out something about a dead man on the hill.” But then one second later it says “The beast was on its knees in the center, its arms folded over its face. It was crying out against the abominable noise, something about a body on the hill.”(Chapter 9) For that one second they realized that the beast and thing was simon but then they totally changed the characteristics of him fearing he was something