Stephen King and Algernon Blackwood both implement the use of ghosts in their horror stories to terrify their audience. Horror stories have several different themes and sub-genres‚ one of which is the sub-genre of ghost stories. Blackwood is one author who used ghosts in his writings quite often‚ and Stephen King‚ maybe the most well-known writer of horror stories‚ also uses ghosts and spirits in his books. With both these authors being horror story writers‚ there are some aspects which are comparable
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To Kill a Mockingbird Written by Harper Lee Published in 1960 The story of To Kill a Mockingbird is narrated by Scout Finch‚ an observant young girl living in the sleepy town of Maycomb‚ Alabama. Scout is‚ I feel‚ what makes the story come alive. Lee writes the book in such a way that as the reader I feel as if I am seeing and experiencing the same things that she is. Scout lives with her older brother Jem‚ and her father Atticus. Scout’s mother has passed away‚ so she is forever on Jem’s heels
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A theme is the lesson the author wants the reader understand after reading a book. It is also known as the moral of the story. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ the author illustrates several themes. One in particular theme that truly highlights the novel’s characters is “don’t judge a person by how he or she looks.” In Lee’s novel‚ the townspeople of Maycomb County are notorious for judging others by their appearance. Instead of taking the opportunity to understand characters beyond
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AP English August 30‚ 2013 Stephen King: On Writing- A Memoir of the Craft Stephen King wrote his book On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft to explain that there’s more to writing than words on a paper. He gives a new perspective to the reader on the process that goes into writing and what he goes through when writing a novel. For example‚ he mentions that after writing a first draft he’ll put the draft away for six weeks until he starts to edit because it is important to have a break before
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Throughout the first three chapters of the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee‚ the main character‚ Scout‚ has experience a few changes to her perspective towards other. Scout used to be a little shy and a troublesome little girl. She was considered rude at first‚ but she is only a first grader‚ and children need to learn the rights and the wrongs‚ she was blameless. She could yell at someone for doing something that she considered as “wrong”. But she is eager to give someone her knowledge
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In time‚ every child will grow up. Harper Lee shows that Jem changes considerably in the course of the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” and describes a detailed transformation from a boy to a mature man. This is reflected when Jem’s attitude to Scout had a dramatic shift‚ his values changed from his childhood to adulthood and Jem becomes more thoughtful than before. Without question‚ Jem totally changed. Firstly‚ as the novel progresses‚Jem’s attitude to Scout is different .His changing attitude
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Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28‚ 1926 to Frances Finch and A.C. Lee. Nelle had three older siblings‚ Alice‚ who was in her twenties‚ Louise‚ who was in high school‚ and Edwin‚ who was the only boy at age ten. Growing up there was no other girls close to her age in her neighborhood‚ and the only child close to her age was a neighborhood boy‚ Truman Capote. Their common bond was the fact that they didn’t meet their parent’s mold of what they considered a perfect child. They would play games
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This report will critically overview and analyse the initial police response of the 1993 Stephen Lawrence murder investigation‚ covering all aspects of an investigation and how it’s meant to be pursued. It will highlight key steps that were not meet by the initial response in the Lawrence investigation including the ‘five building blocks’‚ the ‘Golden hour(s)’‚ appointment of an Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) and then these key principles will be critically compared to that of the Lawrence investigation
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Have you ever seen a mockingbird before? They are beautiful creatures that “don’t eat up people’s gardens‚ don’t nest in corncribs‚ they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us...” as said in To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee‚ the author of this inspiring book‚ expresses a metaphorical way of mockingbirds by using people as an example. Thinking about the billions of people on Earth‚ there are always ones who do nothing but try to get through the day‚ the innocent ones who don’t deserve
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For my midterm short story review‚ the two stories I chose to read were: 1. O. Henry’s‚ The Ransom of Red Chief (because I was in the play version of the story in high school) and 2. Stephen King’s‚ Suffer the Little Children (because I really like Stephen King). The one I chose to write about however was the second one. The plot starts out with a third grade teacher named Miss Sidley. King in the first paragraph of the story aptly compares her to God‚ by explaining how she knows every detail of
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