In the reading, “The Hook: An Urban Legend”, by David Emery, the author describes an urban legend about a teenage boy and girl that go out in the boy’s car to Lover’s Lane to make out. They parked the car at the Lover’s Lane and began to kiss each other after turning the radio on to listen to some music to lighten the mood. After a while, the music is interrupted by an emergency broadcast of an alert that a man with a hook for a right hand had escaped from prison and was on the loose in the area. The girl responded to the alert in a scared manner and asked the boy to take her home. The boy locked all the car doors and assured that the girl would be safe and tried to kiss her again. She refused, still being scared of the broadcast, and pleaded that the boy should take her home. The boy agreed that time and sped off in anger. When the boy dropped the girl off at her house, the girl shrieked in horror to see a hook on the handle of the car door.
David then went on to explain that the urban legend of “The Hook” was a moral story to show that sex was an improper activity for children of that age and that people engaged in it would be punished. Followers of Sigmund Freud suggested that the story was an example of sexual imagery. The boy wanted to get his “hooks” into the girl and his “conscience”, or the voices on the radio, told him to “pull away” or speed off from the site, and was “castrated”, symbolized by the tearing off of the escapee’s hook.
I personally do not agree with the morals of this story. I think that everyone that wants to engage in sexual activity before or after marriage, as long as they are one-hundred percent sure that they want to and follow correct procedures of protection, should be able to do so without having to worry about being punished for it. However, this story could be used as a good lesson for people with such morals.
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