(Dictionary). This way of displaying people or a situation in their true reality is recurrent in many works of literature. Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage‚ a realistic novel that tells the honest horrors of the battlefield. Crane used his life influences of family‚ education‚ and society to shape him into the realistic writer that we see in The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane was born in Newark‚ New Jersey on November 1‚ 1871. His father‚ a Methodist minister‚ and his mother‚ a devout
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Gothic Elements in Stephen King’s: The Shining. The classic elements were invented by Horace Walpole in 1764 in his novel The Castle Of Qtranto. These elements have been used in a variety of ways in different aspects books films short stories even today. Stephen King uses these elements in his novel The Shining alternating them to fit his needs. The first classic element is the incorporation of setting in an old castle‚ with secret rooms scary passages‚ underground burial vaults. Seeming abandoned
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The story of Stephen King’s rabbit can be interpreted in so many way. There are certain variables that stay the same‚ while others change. Everyone distinctly sees the variables that do not change. However‚ the ones that do change vary in many ways. The fact that there is a red tablecloth‚ a cage‚ a rabbit‚ and a blue number eight don’t change. Every person’s vision of these items are different. To start with‚ when I first pictured this scene. I saw a cherry red tablecloth with straight edges.
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Stephen Sondheim‚ hailed by many as a genius‚ has had a long and illustrious career in Broadway musical theatre spanning five decades. During those fifty-some years‚ Sondheim has essentially reinvented the Broadway musical. The Sondheim canon shows three distinct ways Sondheim has contributed to musical theatre. First of all‚ the difficulty of Stephen Sondheim’s music has raised the standard of musical theatre. Actors simply cannot stand onstage and sing as they used to in the days of Gershwin and
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The imagery of Stephen Crane’s “War is Kind” Stephen Crane is an important poet to American Literature. He was one of the most famous writers of imagery‚ as well as naturalism. One of his poems‚ “War is Kind”‚ has many examples of imagery. This poem is also known as “Do not weep‚ maiden‚ for war is kind”‚ by its first line. Three examples of imagery in his poem are when her lover threw his hands towards the sky and his affrighted steed ran on alone; when the father tumbled in the yellow trenches
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The Dead Zone Stephen King’s The Dead Zone has been a bestseller‚ but it has also been banned or challenged. The Dead Zone is about an average man named John Smith. Things were going great for him‚ until he was in a car accident‚ which caused him to go into a coma for five and a half years. After he came out of the coma‚ he gained the ability to see the future. Throughout the book‚ you see John trying to regain what he once had. All of Stephen King’s books have received outstanding critical
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Naturalism in Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” 1. What philosophical values‚ if any‚ are presented or advocated by Stephen Crane in the story? ** In Stephen Crane’s short story “The Open Boat” we are able to see the views of Crane concerning Naturalism. Throughout his story‚ Crane presents to us the idea that nature and the universe are both impassive and uncaring about humankind. An example of this idea would be when Crane states in the story: “When it occurs to a man that nature does
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The poem “War is Kind” was written by Stephen Crane in 1899. He was born after the civil war‚ but died before WWI. Crane wrote this poem about the civil war and the men who fought in it. The poem has three different themes: Warfare‚ The Home‚ and Patriotism. “War is Kind” does not mean that war is actually kind it is just saying that people are willing to go into battle and sacrifice their lives for their country. War is cruel‚ not kind‚ the exact opposite of what Crane repeats throughout the poem
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Monsters: The Human Safety Net It was Stephen King who stated‚ “…we wake up horrors to help us cope with the real ones (“StephenKing.com”). Known for writing horror‚ science fiction such as the iconic novels of It and Dark Tower series‚ Stephen King has dedicated his writing career to understanding the monster that lives inside of each human. Authors inspired by Stephen King such as Max Brooks‚ author of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War‚ will find probable explanations as to why the
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Stephen King holds the position that reading a bad novel can be just as useful for a writer as a “good writing school.” Being able to recognize “bad” writing in itself has many merits. He believes this because reading poor quality literature can teach someone what not to do in their own writing. This information can be used to craft more novel stories that don’t make use of tired tropes or trite concepts. A book that does many things wrong can be infinitely more helpful to a writer’s technique than
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