Fear

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                            Fear
Summary
   Fear is a psychological story taken from Puebla, Mexico. This story presents how people spoil the routine activities when their minds are filled with fear.
     Armando Gonzalez was an honest, diligent, uneducated and skeptical person. Working at shoe shop, he had to look after a family of nine members. His wife, Eva Gonzalez used to earn little money looking after the children of other people. With the hard work of twenty years, Armando Gonzalez and his wife had saved fifty thousand one hundred thirty-two pesos with which they were going to buy a beautiful house.
       Making up his mind to buy a house, he went to the Bank of Mexico City to withdraw 50000 pesos. After he give required documents to bank teller, she asked him several questions. The questions of the bank teller made him think that people in the bank lobby knew about the amount he was going to withdraw. As a result, he became nervous and his nervousness increased even more. When she counted money loudly, in the state of nervousness he put on his hat backward. The unusual position of hat drew the attention of many people in the bank including a heavy man. Now he was quite sure that all those people were looking at him because of his money. Being totally nervous and restless, he left the bank and went to the street. While he was waiting for a bus. He saw the came heavy man standing by his side thought that he was following him to rob him. Armando got into the bus so did the heavy man standing by his side thought that he was following him to rob him.
        While travelling in the bus, Armando came up with an idea to outsmart the heavy man. He thought of getting down the bus at next station and going home by another bus. As he was about to get down the bus, he saw three teenager boys talking to the heavy man and supposed them to be apart of street, through the barbed wire fence, into an old junkyard. Finally, he fell onto the ground as he tripped over the broken bit of car. Just then, the three boys also approached him. When he came to know that those three boys were the students and wanted to help him, he got rid of his unnecessary fear. When he touched his hat, he found it turning backward. Finally, all of them came back to the street together.
      This story presents the psychological fear of its major character that took place in about an hour of his life. As the whole story is all about the psychological working of its character, it is more a psychological story than a supernatural one.

Questions
    1.    What are some things which made Armando think that someone was going to rob him?
   The things that made Armando think that he was going to be robbed are as follow: -
a.      The bank teller who asked him several questions and counted his money loudly.
b.     The double take of the people in the bank lobby.
c.      The large amount of money in the pocket of his worn-out pants.
d.     The honeymoon who followed him up to the bus.
e.      The three teenager boys who talked to the heavy man and followed him to junkyard.

    2.    Why did Armando have the idea that everyone in the bank was watching him? What was the truth?
     Armando had the idea that everyone in the bank was watching him because he was withdrawing large amount of money from the bank and everyone was staring at him. The truth was that Armando was putting his hat backwards which was strange for a adult person so everyone was watching at him.

    3.   Do you think we sometimes make things worse rather than better when we get nervous? Explain.
      Yes, I think we sometimes make things worse rather than better when we get nervous. In nervous our mind is full of fear and we can think and get idea how to tackle some problems. Consequently, we take wrong steps and things become more worse rather than being better.

    4.   How do you think Armando felt when he found out that the boys wanted to help him? What do you think he said to them?
      When he found out that the boys wanted to help him I think Armando felt happy as bag of tension was removed from his mind of being robbed by the boys. I think he said t them that he mistook that they are going to rob him.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

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