Stephen King

prevailing and influential because he uses his own personal experiences and observations from his everyday life and places them into his unique stories. King's charm and style of writing has made him one of the most popular horror story authors today. King tends to focus more on developing ideas to exemplify his vivid…

had success with quitting their destructive habit. Stephen King, in his short story “Quitters Inc.,” vividly shows the struggles of quitting through his tone, symbolism, and characterization. King displays the harmful effects addiction has in every aspect of that person’s life, along with how paranoia and protectiveness can clarify the mental state of an addict. Stephen King’s inspiration likely comes from his personal childhood. When Stephen was only two, his father abandoned his entire…

character from a story telling his tale. The thing is, this is a real person talking to us, the readers. Because of this, I feel like I can connect to Stephen King on a deeper level, and I have his writing to thank for this. How characters interact through dialogue reveals a lot about them, although they may not know it themselves. On page 86, King recalls the time the paperback rights to Carrie were bought. He received a large sum of money, which was more than enough to provide for his family.…

The Road Virus Heads Norths is a horror story written by Stephen King. In the story, Richard Kinnell, who is a horror writer, buys a painting on his way home. The paint is painted by a genius who killed himself after he burned all his paintings except this one. As Kinnell drives north towards his home, he found that some details in the painting have been changing. At first he dismisses them, but he then realizes that the man in the painting has been following him somehow. He tried to destroy the…

I read the book and watched the movie “ The Shawshank Redemption”, by Stephen King. There are many differences and similarities between the book and the movie, some significant and some not so much. The Shawshank Redemption is about a man named Andy Dufresne who is sentenced to life in prison after he is blamed for his wife's murder . In prison he quickly gains respect of the inmates and a lifelong prisoner named “Red”. Andy and Red eventually escape the prison permanently. There were many…

Stephen King’s The Stand is said to be an extremely lengthy novel about the hardships of mankind and the battles of good and evil. At first sight, while it may seem to be all about how the extremes of good and evil fight and give balance, The Stand goes deeper than that. Stephen King isn’t writing about our extremes, but about how we perceive them. People see the world in extremes: black and white, good and bad, etc., but the vast majority of the things that make up our world fall somewhere…

are about to read. Instead, “The Lottery” is a short story that takes place in a small rural town where one’s luck can change with a representation of a piece of paper. After reading the tale, one might feel like they just read an insert from a Stephen King horror story, but that is not how Jackson begins the journey. Once a year, the town’s people gather in the center square of a small settlement in New England. With each white piece of paper placed within a black box, only one paper will mark…

“The only mortal sin is giving up.” -Stephen King. This quote is the ultimate representation for the odyssey of the boys. Was their quest really for the body? Or was there something else that drove them when things looked their worst? Stephen King’s “The Body” is about the perils that a 4 boys go through to find the dead body of Ray Brower, a boy who was supposedly struck by a train and had been missing for days. On their journey, they discover much more. Originally written as a short story,…

Many authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King use literary elements to create horror and suspense. In the novel We Always Lived In The Castle, Shirley Jackson masterfully uses multiple literary elements throughout the course of the book. Jackson uses language, word choice, gothic elements, and ideas of mental illness to create a work of subtle suspense and horror and a message that extends beyond the Blackwood mansion. An aspect of horror shown in this novel is the unreliability of the…

Shawshank Gets Busy Living The Shawshank Redemption is a timeless classic released in October 1994. The movies basis was taken from a Novella written by Stephen King. Notable cast includes Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, and Bob Gunton. Accused of murdering his wife and her lover Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sentenced to two life sentences at Shawshank prison in 1947. After spending several months at Shawshank, Dufresne develops a friendship with Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding (Morgan Freeman) that…