Stephen King

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…

The movie The Shawshank redemption was produced by Frank Darabont and based off of the Stephen King book The Shawshank Redemption. The film is based around figures of hope for the inmates as a sense of relief to help them by the difficult times. The theme hope is portrayed throughout the film as objects, and in the protagonists Andy Dufresne and Ellis Boyd ‘Red Redding’. The major moments where hope was developed was scenes with music, specifically the scene of the warden’s office and the record…

lesson to teach. Encouragement can also be received from a novel being read. “What could be more encouraging to the struggling writer than to realize his/her work is unquestionably better than that of someone who actually got paid for his/her stuff?” (King, 146). Many authors are oblivious to how horrid their stories sound, but those novels can actually benefit aspiring writers. This knowledge can fuel a reader’s self-esteem and assist them in writing their own stories or reading more difficult…

Building Tension in The Shining by Tyler Johnson Chesapeake College The Shining (1980) is a horror-drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. Based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King, The Shining is about a family who takes residence in a secluded hotel for the winter during its off season. The hotel is home to evil spirits that manipulate the father, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), into a violent state. His psychic son (Danny Lloyd)…

by Jay Wolpert, we learn that Edmond Dantès is an intelligent, honest man who turns bitter after he is framed for a crime he did not commit. When in The Shawshank Redemption, based on the novella Rita Hayward and Shawshank Redemption written by Stephen King and screenplayed by Frank Parabont, we come to realize that Andy Dufresne is also an intelligent, honest man however when he escapes from prison, he does not seek revenge. There are multiple similarities and differences in the two…

people do not read such as Typee by Herman Melville because it has all of the writing techniques Stephen King mentions. Stephen King and John Grisham have their own way of writing, but they both have different and similar writing styles like descriptive and theme. Firstly, descriptive writing is a great tool for writing. Description explains the appearance of someone or something. According to Stephen King, “Overdescription buries him or her in details and images.” Writing an overdescription…

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’s “The Reaper’s Image” can be classified as a gothic tale. In “The Reaper’s Image,” two men are moving an infamous mirror to the attic of a mansion, in which you learn the history of said mirror and the supernatural things that happen with the glass. “The Reaper’s Image” is a gothic tale because it has elements of a bleak setting, tortured characters, and the supernatural. In the short story “The Reaper’s Image,” Stephen King includes elements of a bleak setting, creating the mood…

wall. The tireless struggle, the failures, the turndowns, the put downs, people saying “you will never make it in life”, the focus and determination: all of these things are what lies beyond the other side of the wall. In Stephen King’s memoir, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, King brings the reader along through his memories of the past and talks about what inspired him in his journey to becoming one of the most renowned writers of all time. On…

stories in the book the majority of them of the are all different type of monsters. One of them is by Stephen King, and he thinks that we allow the monsters to get in our head by watching horror movies. Some people believe in vampires and they could be considered a “modern monster”.…