Hawkins article
The idea of a village being safer for kids than a city has been the ideal message for many years, however, a place is only seen as safe when compared to one that is unsafe. . If population size is the determining factor of safety, Alaska has a higher murder rate than New York City,the assumption that Americans who live in certain places are inherently kinder and better people than those who live elsewhere. Storytellers of the Gothic tempt us with the single-minded idea of small town goodness but underneath there is something sinister about it- letting us believe that a typical american high school seems innocent to be invaded by the bad, rendering the community's fear of anyone who looks or seems different than them. The cast said that stranger things season 2 is much more darker and will draw more from horror movie sources. Nightmare on Elm street and Halloween are both social critiques of neighborly small communities whereas Gremlins show that small towns are filled with mo