Justin Evans’ A Good and Happy Child and Stephen King’s The Shining both use the theme of uncertainty to say that things aren’t always what they seem. They show this by using a scene with a baseball bat, generations of people, and by having characters see something that isn’t there.
Evans’ and King’s works both portray the theme of uncertainty, that says things aren’t always what they seem, by using a scene with a baseball bat. For example, A Good and Happy Child goes back and forth between the early 80s and the present following George Davies. George is a little chubby 11-year-old in the 80s, 30 in the present, who is having hallucinations of demons after his father died. During this book, Evans stated, “I saw a scruffy, angry-faced boy with …show more content…
For instance, during A Good and Happy Child, George is coming to terms with the fact his father died recently and how he died. Later in the book, George finds out that his father saw visions like him. Evans expressed, “I saw myself again-Other George-only this time, it was like the real George, my George, standing beside the hospital bed, wearing a worried expression, too mature in depth of sadness for such a small boy, and I felt my heart break,” (Evans, p. 254). In this scene, Tom Harris only with characters like Freddie and Clarissa perform, or try to perform, an exorcism on George to expel the demon inside. During this process, the demon shows George how his father actually died. He thrust George into the body of his father in his dying moments only to see the real George and Other George; Other George is the name the real George gave to his demon Friend. Moreover, in The Shining, at the Overlook Hotel, Jack and Danny are affected by the hotel by giving the perceptions or premonitions to what is really going on there. Unlike the mother, they can see how the place is evil and it affects Jack causing his to become a maniac. In fact, Dick Hallorann, the chef, and his grandmother also possessed the ability to “shine”. Since Jack and Danny are related and so are Dick and his grandmother, it can be …show more content…
This thought is both important to literature and to life. To literature, because it can make people read deeper and get a better understanding of the book. Additionally, it can make them enjoy the book more by keeping everything a mystery. To life, because things are never as they seem and need to be questioned since the thought is most likely
Evans’ and King’s works both portray the theme of uncertainty, that says things aren’t always what they seem, by using a scene with a baseball bat. For example, A Good and Happy Child goes back and forth between the early 80s and the present following George Davies. George is a little chubby 11-year-old in the 80s, 30 in the present, who is having hallucinations of demons after his father died. During this book, Evans stated, “I saw a scruffy, angry-faced boy with …show more content…
For instance, during A Good and Happy Child, George is coming to terms with the fact his father died recently and how he died. Later in the book, George finds out that his father saw visions like him. Evans expressed, “I saw myself again-Other George-only this time, it was like the real George, my George, standing beside the hospital bed, wearing a worried expression, too mature in depth of sadness for such a small boy, and I felt my heart break,” (Evans, p. 254). In this scene, Tom Harris only with characters like Freddie and Clarissa perform, or try to perform, an exorcism on George to expel the demon inside. During this process, the demon shows George how his father actually died. He thrust George into the body of his father in his dying moments only to see the real George and Other George; Other George is the name the real George gave to his demon Friend. Moreover, in The Shining, at the Overlook Hotel, Jack and Danny are affected by the hotel by giving the perceptions or premonitions to what is really going on there. Unlike the mother, they can see how the place is evil and it affects Jack causing his to become a maniac. In fact, Dick Hallorann, the chef, and his grandmother also possessed the ability to “shine”. Since Jack and Danny are related and so are Dick and his grandmother, it can be …show more content…
This thought is both important to literature and to life. To literature, because it can make people read deeper and get a better understanding of the book. Additionally, it can make them enjoy the book more by keeping everything a mystery. To life, because things are never as they seem and need to be questioned since the thought is most likely