In "The Waxwork" the protagonist Raymon Hewson, a journalist, is on a quest to spend the night in the Murderers' Den, which is a wax exhibit with depictions of all of the most gruesome and skilled killers around. Hewson needs money for his wife and children, yet it is clear that he really wants to achieve his quest to write an article and submit it to the newspaper The Morning Echo. The manager of the museum explains that people can be driven insane by these figures, and Hewson responds that he doesn't have a wild imagination, and is merely a factual person. As the night goes on, a specific killer catches his eye, Dr. Bourdette, a killer acclaimed for collecting human throats who still hasn't been found who Hewson then imagines springs to life and murders him.
At the beginning of the story, Hewson reassures himself that he is a factual person and wax figurines will not scare him, but when he arrives in the Murderers' Den, he finds himself coming up with a backstory for the people, and begins to think they are talking to him. This shows that he is imaginative, and that he is brave. He is brave because he entered the Murderers' Den, and he is imaginative because he thought that the inanimate wax objects were moving and one was making a ploy to kill him. I share these qualities in life because I love to read stories and come up with new ideas, sometimes letting me come up with backstories for things that aren't real. I am brave because I like to try new things in life and seize opportunities.
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