Literary Analysis of Strawberry Springs

Cases of murder often have long rhetoric discordance with the people it directly
impacted. To some, watching or seeing the replicated headlines portray flashbacks that recount
incidental occasions when life was a puzzle of fear and other negative emotional alternations.
The text Strawberry Springs by Stephen King illuminates the theme of fear caused by paranoia
and justice. When the fog falls over the campus, a connotation called "Strawberry Spring" has
dreadful impacts on the lives of young campus ladies who become statistics to a series of the
victim of untimely death. The monumental impacts of the death cases lead to the development of
thematic postulations that anchor the centrality to the argument of this paper. Based on the
literary description given to the winter season that had now left the campus shadowy with fright,
a vivid description is a cornerstone for explaining the events within the short story. Uncertainties
created by strange natural circumstances such as an extreme winter change at New Sharon
Teachers' College are symbolic of the mysterious aftermath of events that ought to guide analysts
on predicting the sources and impacts of the events.
Whenever fear crops are based on things happening differently, the extent to which
they happen should be symbolic to the victims within that part of the setting as the narrator
depicts this night when the snowmelt, winter extreme, and ability to smell the sea almost over
twenty miles, it indicates danger. It is unusual and almost unheard of in a long while. The
narrator says, "The coldest winter in twenty years broke on that day. It rained and you could

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smell the sea twenty miles west of the beaches. The snow, which had been thirty-five inches
deep in places, began to melt and the campus walks ran with slush" (King 1). Without making
this analysis sound like blame, the interpretation of it shows danger was imminent. Even as the
narrator states that they roamed the campus gullibly as if it was simply a curiosity fulfillment, the
vivid description portrays danger that could have been avoided by remaining locked in warm
rooms.
The death incidences around the campus symbolize incidences of preplanned encounters
to have victims murdered in styles. Springheel Jack, as the killing spree character is known,
accentuates the need to analyze the text instead of as a psychopathic intricate of events than
natural monstrousness. In other words, the heinous actions are committed by a fellow human
(Marriage 18). In the progressive accounts of the text, the narrator adds that it is almost a routine
to predict that every eight years, a creepy snow melting and harsh winter returns to seek lives of
the campus students from the same college of New Sharon Teachers' College (King 6). It is an
indication that even if the monstrous mastermind of the first death that took the life of Gale
Cerman was not found, a mysterious “boogie-man” lurks annually. Therefore, the deaths cannot
be accounted for as those done by a horrifying ghost. Analytically, the first incident had a girl
having her through the cut. The second case of Anna Bray also pinpoints indications of
strategized death tragedy. The everyday understanding herein is that patterns of the deaths
waiting only to happen in the night with similar features on the victims demonstrate
premeditation to commit the offenses.
The response often accorded to victims of murder cases originates from unethical
incarceration, sometimes without valid proof until the convincing evidence is availed. Based on
the murder of Gale Cerman, a silent, almost shy character, the police arrest her boyfriend named

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Carl Amalara for the charges (King 2). The retrospect of this incident is withholding factual
information and using assertions that would reduce the panic. First, with the strangeness that
followed after the fog, the snow, and the cold winter, students and the faculty became worrisome
and peddled rumors. Based on psychoanalytical perspectives, fear creates tensions, and
management changes such by finding a culprit. In this case, Carl Amalara is the scapegoat. The
contextual point of concern driven here is the failure by the law enforcement groups to
acknowledge the events that equally leave them dreadful (Marriage 17). The incident of a
"deceased boy" who had the severe flu and fainted on the parking lot when resurrected while
carried to the hospital demonstrates how fear drives decision-making (King 4). What effect does
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