The Dream Catcher, An Analysis

Imagine yourself, in a small, little town not known by many people from other states; you and your friends enjoying a normal life in this little town, until one rainy day everyone’s home and your younger brother decides to go out in the rain and steer his paper-mache boat in the stream of water leading to the sewers. Seems innocent and safe right? He will be enjoying his rainy day and you will be inside doing your work knowing that he will return safely; but what if I tell you that he doesn’t return safely, what if I tell you that he doesn’t even return at all, he’s gone missing and no one knows where he is except for him and the “thing” that took him away. This leads you into a weird stage of your life, the stage of denial something that even gets the strongest of people, in addition to the …show more content…
He can play with his words, manipulate the readers emotions, change the feel in the plot of a story quickly, and he can also relate his other books and novels to newer ones. For example one of his other, best sellers, “The Dream Catcher” also is based in the town of Derry, Maine. Even though Derry, Maine is a fictional town in some of his novels, Stephen King can try to convince you that this place is entirely real with the descriptions of the town and how it could seem like a small, lesser densely populated town. In summation, Stephen King is an all-time great and is someone I do aspire to be as a writer in the future, but this would definitely need a lot of training and teaching to get to his level of writing and story-telling. Finally, “IT” by Stephen King was a novel that changed me as a reader and a writer and it is something that should definitely be passed on through other generations of readers and writers to inspire them to get past their fears, and always stick together with their thoughts and writings to always flourish to the person they’ll become in the