period. Stephen King is an outstanding horror writer he started writing professionally in 1974 and has released new books as late as 2008. Stephen King an American author has truly made a significant impact on today’s readers. King can turn marital stress‚ peer pressure‚ or adultery into a terrifying epic that would make your skin crawl. Stephen king was born September 21‚ 1947. Stephen’s birth was a tremendous surprise to his parents as they had been told they could not have children. King witnessed
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Text Review ’Misery’ by Stephen King Title: ’Misery’ Author: Stephen King Plot: Paul Sheldon is a famous writer who created the popular ’Misery’ series‚ and has just killed off the main character‚ Misery Chastain. He has just finished writing a new novel called ’Fast Cars’ and is heading to New York to get the manuscript printed when his car crashes in Colorado. He is pulled from the wreckage with both of his legs shattered by his number one fan‚ Annie Wilkes. She took him to her home
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Stephen King. Worthy or Not? Do you think Stephen King is a worthy author? Many people will have different opinions about this topic but in my opinion‚ he is a worthy author! Stephen King is a great author. Stephen King is one of the best selling authors of all time. In the 40 years since his first novel‚ Carrie‚ he has published‚ more than 50 books‚ all of them international bestsellers. King has always been clear about the inspiration he has drawn from respected literary forebears. King’s work
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Notes Link: http://www.trcb.com/onlinebooks/leisure/horror-literature--life-after-stephen-king-1317.htm It’s common knowledge that Stephen King took a literary subgenre in the early eighties and turned it into a mainstream literary genre Bestsellers like Shinning‚ Carrie‚ Blood and Smoke and even Bag of Bones (which was the first book in the genre to be given in depth analysis by literary critics worldwide) propelled horror literature to a class of its own‚ away from the scorned subgenre
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Desperation‚ a recent Stephen King novel‚ is not just a book‚ but an experience that leaves the reader frightened‚ paranoid‚ and questioning his moral beliefs. Picture‚ if you will‚ a lone‚ crazed Nevada policeman who pulls over vehicles on a lonely desert highway and forcefully takes away their occupants. Whichever of them he doesn’t kill immediately‚ he locks up in the jail of the small desolate town of Desperation. Among those captured are the vacationing Carver family‚ whose RV is sabotaged on
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Every great story has at least one theme that is identifiable.There are so many amazing themes out there that it’s hard for the author to just pick one. Well‚ in Stephen King’s IT‚ he expresses a few different themes‚ including; ’Grownups are the enemy’‚ expressing that theme by showing characters interacting with one another and the adults‚ ’There’s always a way to fix the problem’ by showing the characters‚ yet again‚ working together to kill the evil entity‚ and ’Leave the past behind‚ but never
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Insomnia and The Stand have many things in common Including setting‚ something supernatural happening‚ and having to save someone. This essay will tell you how these are in common. First of all Insomnia takes place in the fictional town of Derry‚Maine which has appeared in many of Stephen King’s books including The Stand. In The Stand one of the main character’s Frannie Goldsmith story starts in the fictional town of Derry‚Maine. Insomnia and The Stand aren’t the only Stephen King books that have
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Trashcan Man English 10 Honors 2/28/10 Mrs. Borrego Stand Together‚ Stand Strong People behave strangely when more than ninety-nine percent of the population is dead. They behave even more strangely when they’re the prize of a cosmic struggle. In Stephen King’s fantasy/horror‚ The Stand‚ a plague created by the military decimates the modern world. The humans that survived the plague are now the commodity of the personifications of good and evil‚ the troops in an epically proportioned conflict
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The Shining‚ by Stephen King‚ is about a man and his wife and son staying in a hotel during the winter. The man is named Jack Torrance‚ who will be the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel from the months of November to April. Jack was notorious for losing his job‚ mostly since he had a bad temper and drank excessively. Thankfully though‚ his good buddy Al knew the owner of the Overlook‚ who needed someone to stay there when everyone else left; so‚ he was able to get him the job. Jack’s son‚ Danny‚ has
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the third section of the book‚ Stephen King describes his love of writing and offers advice on how to succeed as a writer. King’s first point about writing is that constantly reading and writing will help someone become a better writer. Reading can provide a writer with an extended vocabulary‚ as well as a taste of many different writers’ styles. Writing often will help a writer practice‚ and the writer can experiment with what works. This is important because King explains that success as a writer
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