Explaination Essay-Thinner by Stephen King

“Each life makes its own imitation of immortality.” is exactly what Stephen King, one of top selling writers in history said when quoting on his own life. As one of the most renowned and famous authors of modern history, Stephen King has published a countless and immense number of bestsellers and worldwide hits. The King of Terror Stephen Edwin King is one of today's most popular and best-selling writers. His countless number of books have circled around the homes of millions of readers who are so intrigued by some of his most famous works. His works continue to embody the minds and fears of its reader while increasingly becoming ever more popular. Stephen King is not only a figure of present history but also a household

Lastly, King appeals to character as well as establishing his creditability. For starters, the the vocabulary King chose to use shows that he is educated and possesses the knowledge to respond to the clergymen. King also informed the clergymen that he had previous experience in conducting and participating in non-violent campaigns. This provides credibility because it showed that he had prior knowledge of the behavior and purpose of those participating, while also addressing that past campaigns have always been “untimely”, but with desired outcome. The last and most obvious proof of credibility, is that King was a black man that faced the same adversities that he referred to in the last paragraph of this section. The example being of having to personally tell his daughter why she could not be allowed to go to a public amusement park because she was black and looked at as less than.

He comes to prove to his readers that the amount of years that pass by and the number of distance between point A and B is irrelevant as long as you read and write. Words have weight. As readers, we fail to realize that we make connections with the authors themselves in personal ways. We read a book that carries a passageway to the authors minds and from there, we are in a world of fantasies and false realities, or in some cases, we are in a specific time period in which we weren’t even alive for. King stresses that that is the “pure distillation” - that is the beauty of

King’s writing was both fair and accurate. He seemed to have done lots of research, and written only the facts that had been proven. When he did write anything that seemed a little exaggerated, he would always source the statement making sure the reader knew that he was only stating what someone else said, not the complete truth. King also shows both sides of the story. He gives all characters an equal chance to prove themselves. As seen best with Lorenzo, King praises him first with Lorenzo’s doors, but then he expresses Lorenzo’s incompetence towards the wooden

King incorporates a myriad of stylistic devices that shape and develop the theme of the passage in the book. Through the periodic use of rhetorical questions such as,

is a novel that almost everyone educated in the United States has either read it

Stephen King’s insight on dreams are all based on personal experiences. King begins by comparing the functionality of a dream to a mirror “I’ve always used dreams the way you’d use a mirror to look at something you couldn’t see head on”. By using this idea of dreams being like mirrors, King is able to alleviate his writer 's block by depicting his dreams directly onto paper. An example would be when King had already written seven to eight hundred pages of his novel which he could not seem to finish. Then later reveals how a nightmare provoked the ending, he states how he woke up frightened yet at the same time relieved he’d finished the book. According to King all he had to do at this point was to take his dream and transfer it to paper. Without a doubt, King’s personal experiences can justify why he believes “dreams are a way that people’s minds illustrate the nature of their problems. Or maybe even illustrates the answer to their problem in symbolic language”.

King creates the ideas behind many horror films and books, he’s liable to support the

“Why We Crave Horror Movies” does not argue any opposing perspectives, causing weaknesses in the essay. Stephen King neglects to argue reasons against

I felt that King brought out the emotions of his audience. This too got the reader listening to his words. King was able to accomplish this by using the persuasive strategy,

This an an example of personification and imagery. King explains the randomness of ideas when he writes, he makes it clear that he can’t just pull ideas out of drawer. He describes the ideas as “sailing out of the empty sky” and joining together to make something new under the sun. His ideas come to him whenever they please, he has no control over it. He clearly states that his job as a writer is to recognize them when they appear.

To set the mood in this piece, King describes where he is writing his work and calls it his “far-seeing place,”(103). He says that he is writing this chapter at his desk down in his well lit basement in the winter, and this place is his sanctum away from the stresses of life. By writing about his current setting in his sanctuary, King showed that he was just like any one of us. King reads books as a release from life’s frustrations.

This gives the audience something to continually ponder on through the rest of the essay and become one step closer to being fully emerged in the world of Stephen King’s thoughts.

Stephen King is perhaps the most widely known American writer of his generation, yet his distinctions include publishing as two authors at once: Beginning in 1966, he wrote novels that were published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. When twelve, he began submitting stories for sale. At first ignored and then scorned by mainstream critics, by the late 1980’s his novels were reviewed regularly in The New York Times Book Review, with increasing favor. Beginning in 1987, most of his novels were main selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club, which in 1989 created the Stephen King Library, committed to keeping King’s novels “in print in hardcover.” King published more than one hundred short stories (including the collections Night Shift,

Stephen Oates, through the start of the book, detailed how he was going to and had written the book. From the very start of the novel, he know that there would be flaws and was very specific about how he would confront the flaws that were in King's life: “If I uncovered human frailties in King – and how could I not? - I would try to understand them, not use them to invite the readers to an execution.” (xii). However, Oates, while not always wanting to show the pits in King's life, was honor-bound to do so. He looked back on this biography by stating “I had, I think, been fair, but forthright in dealing with King's other flaws and failings – the biographer is honor-bound to depict a person whole...” (xx). Stephen Oates held his work to a professional level, never letting his personal