Summary: Within Pet Sematary‚ by Stephen King; pages 71-132‚ you learn more about the main character Louis Creed and his family. After the night of his encounter with the recently deceased‚ Victor Pascow‚ Louis returns back to work at the university and does research about Pascow. Then‚ he meets his new co-workers and eats lunch and works on patients‚ but after work he goes across the read to Jud’s house to pay him a visit. While at Jud’s house‚ they talking about Jud’s wife‚ Norma and her arthritis
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The Shining‚ written by Stephen King is an American horror novel that focuses on Jack Torrance’s life as a recovering alcoholic and his off-season job at the Overlook Hotel. Stephen King himself has struggled in the past with alcoholism and was inspired to write the novel upon his visit to the Stanley Hotel in 1974. After the novel was published in 1977‚ King clearly sets up his reputation specifically as an author of the horror-genre. The novel immediately received enthusiastic praise while readers
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all time. Although the film has been given this title‚ director and writer Frank Darabont knows the true genius behind this story is writer‚ Stephen King. Stephen King is mostly known for his horror‚ suspense books‚ but this time he wrote a book about Andy Dufresne‚ a banker from Maine who is wrongly charged with murdering his cheating wife and her lover. King writes “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption” in the first person narrative‚ in the form of a monologue written by the character‚ Red
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Page 5 of 5 Work Cited http://www.beereads.com/misery-stephen-king http://www.stephenking.com/library/novel/misery.html Page 4 of 5 Summary Misery Formats: Hardcover / Paperback / Movie / DVD First Edition Release Date: June‚ 1987 Synopsis: Novelist Paul Sheldon has plans to make the difficult transition from writing historical romances featuring heroine Misery Chastain to publishing literary fiction. Annie Wilkes‚ Sheldon ’s number
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Each one of the characters plays a role in their group. The story is told from Gordie’s point of view. Gordie is the smart one in the group and the one that is going to be successful. He is a writer which is a similarity that Gordie shares with Stephen king. Denny‚ Gordie’s older brother died in a car accident and his parents haven’t been the same since. You could say that Denny was the favored child. So Gordie could get away with just about anything‚ “I’d been like the invisible boy that whole summer”
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In The Black House‚ as in most Stephen King novels‚ a destructive and malicious force horribly assaults a placid town. Black House’s town is Coulee County‚ Wisconsin‚ and its malicious force is a psychopathic killer who kidnaps‚ kills‚ and eats young children. Jack‚ who as a child traveled to another world and wielded the power of an arcane object called the Talisman‚ has grown to adulthood and retired from the Los Angeles Police Department. Through either destiny or random chance‚ he moves to Coulee
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Stephen King‚ the master of horror in literature‚ once said “Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit‚ but taste completely different”.This brings to question how horror differs in novels and films. For a long time‚ reading books and watching movies has been a common interest of both teenagers and adults. We not only watch movies and read books about comedy‚ romance‚ adventure‚ and drama; we also crave horror. We can trace the literary genre of literature all the way back
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Analysis of the Shining In the Shining‚ Stephen King’s idea was to show the reader that they don’t have to go looking in dark alleys for terrible monsters or demonic creatures‚ because in every human there is a chance for monsters to develop in ones mind. He also points out that a weak mind plus psychological problems‚ can allow exterior pressures to force you to think or do certain actions. In this novel the Torrance family settles in an isolated Colorado hotel‚ the Overlook. Jack Torrance‚
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Allen English 100-010 04/08/2013 Why We Need Horror Movies In “Why We Crave Horror Movies‚” Stephen King writes about horror movies‚ why we like them‚ and the purposes they serve us. One of the main reasons he makes in his essay is that he believes that there is a dark and sinister side to all people that craves to see the suffrage and despair of others and that this is why we need these movies. King says that these particular kinds of movies are good in the way that the purpose they serve is
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the one that would give the reader a chance to ace their fears” of serial killers by reading. It gives us the opportunity to show that we are not afraid and that we can “face ours fears.” Stephen King says that‚ “We read and watch books of horror so we can re-establish our feelings of normality.” (King‚ “Why we crave horror” 1) While we are reading
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