Stephen King is the author of novels and short stories with creepy settings admits that he even fears bugs to add to the list of things that freaks him out. One of his earlier short stories happening 1976, several women at New Sharon Teachers' College fall victim to a “Jack the Ripper” style character with a mysterious fog that weighs heavy over the campus. King, the narrator, also a student, leads us on a twisted tale of a foggy New England town to search who committed the horrifying acts. My analysis of Stephen King’s use of the literary elements, combined with his horror reflected his short story, “Strawberry Spring” (The Fact Site, 8 Apr. 2017)
Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. When he was two years …show more content…
King began sending short fiction to magazines when he was twelve. He had no success at that time selling his stories, but he did win first prize in an essay competition sponsored by a scholastic magazine. In high school King authored a small, satiric (poking fun at human weakness) newspaper entitled The Village Vomit. He published his first story at eighteen in a magazine called Comics Review. King graduated from high school in 1966. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Maine in 1970. He married Tabitha Spruce, also a writer, the following year. They have three children. (Read more) Strawberry Spring is set in New England at New Sharon Teachers College after the coldest weather in 20 years that brought 35 inches of snow briefly gives way to unusual warm temperatures causing a mysterious fog to roll in. Strawberry Spring is a phrase old timer use to describe weather like Indian summer only much rarer being once every two or three years. Strawberry spring means the worst norther of the winter is still on the way - and the longer it lasts, the harder the storm. (Page …show more content…
Also felt is the warmth after a deep freeze begins to thaw. Mysterious sound of snowmelt running down the gutters, and smell salt tang of the ocean. (Page 185)
During a period of strange foggy weather known as Strawberry Spring presented as a paranormal and eerie ghost across a small college town in Main. A college student appears unable to recall his actions and suffers headaches when murders happen, but romanticizes the fog as though possessed. 8 years later the student/father concludes he is the murderer after reading in the paper “Springheeled Jack” had struck again. Unable to recall where he was the night before and fearing to look in his trunk. The mans wife believes he was with another woman, so does our narrator now. The college student is externally conflicted as the fog has possessed him compared to the tranquil collectively passionate feeling it gives. Conflicts arise as the young father tries to recall where he was the night before to his wife as she cries in the next
Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. When he was two years …show more content…
King began sending short fiction to magazines when he was twelve. He had no success at that time selling his stories, but he did win first prize in an essay competition sponsored by a scholastic magazine. In high school King authored a small, satiric (poking fun at human weakness) newspaper entitled The Village Vomit. He published his first story at eighteen in a magazine called Comics Review. King graduated from high school in 1966. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Maine in 1970. He married Tabitha Spruce, also a writer, the following year. They have three children. (Read more) Strawberry Spring is set in New England at New Sharon Teachers College after the coldest weather in 20 years that brought 35 inches of snow briefly gives way to unusual warm temperatures causing a mysterious fog to roll in. Strawberry Spring is a phrase old timer use to describe weather like Indian summer only much rarer being once every two or three years. Strawberry spring means the worst norther of the winter is still on the way - and the longer it lasts, the harder the storm. (Page …show more content…
Also felt is the warmth after a deep freeze begins to thaw. Mysterious sound of snowmelt running down the gutters, and smell salt tang of the ocean. (Page 185)
During a period of strange foggy weather known as Strawberry Spring presented as a paranormal and eerie ghost across a small college town in Main. A college student appears unable to recall his actions and suffers headaches when murders happen, but romanticizes the fog as though possessed. 8 years later the student/father concludes he is the murderer after reading in the paper “Springheeled Jack” had struck again. Unable to recall where he was the night before and fearing to look in his trunk. The mans wife believes he was with another woman, so does our narrator now. The college student is externally conflicted as the fog has possessed him compared to the tranquil collectively passionate feeling it gives. Conflicts arise as the young father tries to recall where he was the night before to his wife as she cries in the next