Stephen Dorff

In Loving Memory of Philip K. Dick SOMA is a sci-fi Horror experience developed by Frictional Games. They are the developers responsible for creating Amnesia: The Dark Descent and the Penumbra series. I don’t typically play games that are in the Horror genre, and this is the first game I’ve played by this particular developer. Now sci-fi games, that’s completely different. I can deal with a little bit of horror in that case. At first, I thought I was stepping into a space station. It was a very…

Transitions, influenced by interactions with others, enable a person to overcome obstacles that restrain them to transition. Billy Elliot, the film directed by Stephen Daldry, and Jennifer Niven’s novel Holding Up The Universe both explore transitions through defying social standards and acceptance. Billy Elliot explores transitions of Billy entering a world of ballet in the disapproving society of Durham during the Miners Strike. Holding Up The Universe explores the transition of Libby Strout,…

The civil rights activist Maya Angelou once said, “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” Often times, people listen to that song without further knowledge on what it may truly mean and fail to take the time to investigate the credibility of that bird. Along with this, us humans sometimes act as parrots, simply imitating any idiotic utterance that is conceived. In the speculative fiction book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the episode “The Monsters…

“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.” -A. C. Doyle. Horror is a large topic filled with suspense, setting, mood, and other topics all combined to bring people something suspenseful and thrilling. A few great examples of the horror genre are the stories “Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Monkey's Paw”. One part of horror is the build of suspense. It is very difficult though to build without organization such as building a fort, home, or project. A large part of many horror stories include…

understand the dynamics of Charlie's interactions between his friends and his mental instabilities. As critics say, “Overall, by keeping all of the important moments in Charlie’s timeline and showing us more about our favorite side characters onscreen, Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wildflower is a wildly successful film, capturing the ache and grandeur of growing up in the suburbs in the early nineties perfectly” (www.cinemablend.com). Watching the film is a key aspect of fully…

Stephen King is a highly successful and popular author. He has written many stories and novels using what he calls “ 22 lessons on How to be a Good Writer”. There is strong evidence of Rule 8 “Avoid adverbs and long paragraphs with no flow”, Rule 10 “master the art of description”, and Rule 11 “Don’t give too much background information” in his stories “ The body” and “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption”. In these stories, it is clear that he takes his rules seriously. King…

2.1. Carrie : An Overview Carrie (1974) is the first full-length published and well-received novel written by King, a profound depiction of the story of outcast high-school girl, Carrie White. Despite the fact that it is his first published novel, he previously has sixth attempts at writing novels. King in his book On Writing , a memoir of his literary craft , records the story of how he wrote Carrie . He recalls ''I did three single-spaced pages of a first draft, then crumpled them up in…

Stephen King Books made into movies Stephen King has had from 50 to 75 books made into movies.The main reason why Stephen King has been so successful is his style of writing. Stephen King had many different messages in his writing but some had occurred more than once. His characters had a type, which was a flawed character that had had a troubled past. Stephen King was not limited to his signature horror books, he has a plethora of genres in his writings. Stephen King's writing style is very…

Many Gothic literature novels or short stories show techniques of suspicion and supernatural elements. The novel And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie and the short story ¨Ghostly Rental¨ by Henry James both show characteristics of being Gothic literature. They share many similar ideas and topics, but also many different ones. In these stories, the elements help to describe the atmosphere of the main idea of each story. In the novel And Then There Were None, ten people including himself…

King Robert Wylie and his men are standing outside the dungeon’s door. Earl Michal Callaghan instructed the Kingsman, who were guarding it, to open them. He orders two of the Callaghan’s Kingsman to follow behind him. They all travel down the spiraling hallway, past the doors that line the wall, moving in sync to the sound of dripping water. King Robert eyes the prisoners that he sees, replaying King David’s words, wondering if there was any truth behind them. He looks around, contemplating…