LINK TO STORY: https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/i-was-a-teenage-werewolf/
Answer TWO of the following:
NOTE: Q1 and Q2 below is different than the one I gave you in class, since it refers to a story we didn't end up reading. I apologize for this oversight! The new Q1 now makes a lot more sense, and I tried to make Q2 more clarified as well.
Q1: What does the Narrator meant when they write, "It was a pleasure to be afraid" (290)? How does fear "unite" the community, and why do they take a certain comfort in knowing that something evil is "out there," hunting them, watching them at every minute? Related to this, what might this say about our own love of horror movies and True Crime shows and podcasts?
Q2: Why is the story called "I Was a Teenager Werewolf," when the narrator isn't a first-person narrator? Is there a reason we never learn the Narrator's name or even gender? And why might the title include "Was" instead of "Is"? Could that also be significant?
Q3: The narrator claims that the anonymity of the werewolf gave them a certain power in their community. As he/she explains, “if we were both sovereign and slave to our terror, our teachers and parents were slaves alone. As long as no one knew who the teenage werewolf was, it could be any one of us” (296). Why does this give them power over their teachers and parents? How does this bond the teenagers together as a group?
Q4: The ending of the this story is surprising and a bit shocking: why do you think Bailey ends the story with all the adults being eaten/murdered? Is the point of the story to say “teenagers are evil and can’t be trusted”? Or does he have another intention? Why make every teenager a werewolf and every adult a victim?
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