My monster I wrote about was Big Foot or the yeti.
The simplified story goes as such: Big Foot breaks into a
cabin in the middle of the night and starts to destroy the cabin and starts to
harm the boy’s parents.
I believe that this story can be related to Cohen’s third
thesis, “The Monster is the Harbinger of Category Crisis.” I think that my
story is truly a metaphor to a desired life or the American dream as seen by a
Minnesotan boy. That dream was living day by day at my cabin with my family
enjoying the sun and lake. This monster or Big Foot that came into the cabin
however is some sort of obstacle or incident that interferes with this American
dream. Big Foot came into the cabin and destroyed not only the cabin but also
the boy’s family. Two pieces that are very important to what a desired life
would be. The cabin being a safe, reliable, and enjoyable place to live, and
the family, which is one of things that a person can always turn back to if
everything else fails. So Cohen states: “ [Monsters] are disturbing hybrids
whose externally incoherent bodies resist attempts to include them in any
systematic structuration” (Cohen 6). The key word that stands out to me that
Cohen uses is systematic. This boy, before Big Foot came in, had a system to
his life. He probably woke up everyday with no worry and played all day, but
this thing, this monster, came to disrupt the “order of things” (6). Moreover,
this monster story can be related to the Cohen’s third theses as being a “Harbinger
of Category Crisis” (6).
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