“Monster Culture (Seven Thesis)”, by Jeffery Jerome Cohen first appeared in Monsters in 2012. The intended audience of this passage is people who are interested in Monster Culture and college students. Thesis five and six of the passage argue that monsters function as a type of border. This border keeps humans separated from their curiosity, although, that sense of fear of crossing those boundaries is also what drives the human desire for monsters. Cohen depicts how the monsters, such as the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, punish those who seek curiosity. Just as in the world exploration years, when monsters were drawn into maps to scare away those who were searching for trade routes and land. This type of fear that monsters punish us with
