e. From the use of flashback scenes we are able to see that the nightmare regards her past experiences at Camp Crystal Lake, this subscribes to Vera Dika's theory that although the heroine may survive she can never truly be free. The nightmare is a recollection of Jason's death as imagined by the killer in the first film, Jason's mother, Pamela Voorhees. This confirms Dika's opinions with regard to issues such as plot structure. The narratives first section presents us with an event that occurred many years earlier, the drowning of Jason, after having spent the last 20 years at the bottom of a lake he is, in the words of Dika 'driven to madness' (Dika, pg 58, 1990) and is suffering from an 'extreme trauma' (Dika, pg 59, 1990). This trauma was caused initially by his helpless and witnessed drowning as a young boy and then enflamed by his viewing of the wrongful (in Jason's eyes) murder of his mother with whom he shared a deep and abnormal connection. Throughout his short childhood he remained isolated which therefore resulted in him being rendered socially inept, the overvaluation of her love for him and his subsequent drowning froze his development as a person and consequently he mirrored her actions and embarked on a killing spree.
             This killing spree is triggered while still in the first section of the film. The trigger is initiated by the murder of the initial films heroine, Alice (Adrienne King). After waking from the nightmare the victim (Alice) begins to move around the house, tending to various unimportant things. The scene is shot from the killer
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