Sunday, June 17, 2007

Journal Entery
June 17, 2007
#1
Page 8, Paragraph 2

Quote: " It was always quiet except on moonlight nights. Darkness held a vague terror for these people, even the bravest among them. Children were warned not to whistle at night for fear of evil spirits. Dangerous animals became even more sisnister and uncanny in the dark."

It seems that in Africa, they have the same tecnique of getting kids to do things, like we do in America. I think all over the world small kids are afraid of the dark because there parents or people might have gone too far. And like it seemed to happen in the book, you tell it to people so many times, that you start to believe it. The parents told scary stories of things that happen at night, that they started to believe it too, so they are now scared of the dark too. So far things in Africa don't seem to be that different than those in America. I take it that the African's are very supersticious.