Analysis Of Stephen King's 'My Creature From The Black Lagoon'

Stephen King is an author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. He is most well-known for his writing of horror stories and how scary and real they seem to be. One of Kings first novels known as Carrie was his first horror novel and was a huge success. In this essay assignment, the directions were to read Stephen King’s “My Creature from the Black Lagoon” and to define and focus in on nine points in which Stephen King talks about during his essay. Stephen Kings “My creature from the Black Lagoon” is based off a movie he saw when he was young called The Creature from the Black Lagoon. The key points in Kings essay are the terms batrachian, suspension of disbelief, Doppler effect and the ethos, pathos, and logos. and will also go into detail about popular culture, literature, and science and the ways King incorporates those in his writing. Stephen King uses a lot of different concepts in his writings, but he has a good technique of explaining them and making them know to his readers. To start off with, King begins this essay with explaining about when he …show more content…
This is a scientific creature, even though the name King calls it by is making it seem like a fake creature, it is not fake. A batrachian is a real creature. King also throws in some facts into his writing, which relate to science and are scientific terms. Thinking about it the terms ethos, pathos, and logos are all scientific terms as well as Doppler effects. When talking about the batrachian monster this is more of an Ethos explanation because it is giving off more of an ethical appeal to the audience, an ethical appeal is a method of persuasion authors use, and Stephen King most defiantly uses an ethical appeal in his