King : The Paranormal And Detective Themes

Stephen King is an American author that has made a great impact on the writing industry. His stories have been influenced by his life and have many common themes within them that set him far apart from many other authors. His work has been critically acclaimed amongst various critics through his career. King is one of the most influential and noteworthy American authors to ever exist. His novels have frightened hundreds of millions of people due to the uniqueness of his craft and the plot to his stories.

The common thought that people have about Disney is happiness and merriment. Ridley Pearson provides an opposing view in the book “Kingdom Keepers II” by showing the darkest parts of what we thought we all knew. Pearson allows this to occur by taking the reader through the lives of kids who work as DHIs(Disney Host Interactions) that become holographic people that fight the villains. Pearson not only does this to show his opinion, but he uses it to intrigue the reader enough to want to keep reading. This fictional fantasy about Disney and Disney parks are incomprehensible and allows an appeal to readers. There is a recurring theme of Mystery, created by Pearson, by using literary devices. The literary devices of Person vs. Self, Person vs.

Book Review of King Leopold's Ghost, by Adam Hochschild      What some have considered to be the first international scandal of the modern era took place in the Congo from 1890 until 1910. King Leopold II of Belgium was at the head of this so-called scandal. Although Europe and the rest of the world seemed to have forgotten the victims of these crimes, there is a considerable amount of material to use when attempting to recreate the horror that took place in Leopold's Congo. This is exactly what Adam Hochschild is attempting to do by writing this book. By using the written words of mostly Europeans and Americans, which creates a distorted view of history, he wants to show that the Holocaust type event

From short stories to fantasy and horror novels the ‘science fiction author’ Ray Bradbury entertains millions with his works. Known from his most famous novel Fahrenheit 451, “ a dystopian study of future American society in which critical thought is outlawed” (“Ray Bradbury” 1). Bradbury was not solely tied to novel writing ‘he had many irons in the fire’ he had several article published in numerous newspapers, he wrote many screenplays for movies, and also created his own HBO television series. “He wrote numerous screenplays and treatments, including a 1956 take on Moby Dick. In 1986, Bradbury developed his own HBO television…” (“ Ray Bradbury” 1) . Bradbury’s life works still touch and entertain millions of people, his timeless words shall ring for eternity.

King Leopold's Ghost tells a story of the Belgian King Leopold II and his misrule of an African colony, named (at the time) the Congo Free State. It is a wild and unpleasant story of a man's capacity for evil and the peculiar manifestation of it.

Stephen King attended Durham Elementary School and graduated from Lisbon Falls High School in 1966. He then went on to the University of Maine where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in English in 1970. King wrote or a column in his college newspaper called “The Main Campus1. King received a teaching certificate but could not find work so made many selling short stories. He eventually was hired as a teacher at Hampton Academy

Walter Dean Myers was a children's’ and young adult writer that is best known for his 1988 novel Fallen Angels and his 1999 novel Monster. He wrote more than one hundred books including some picture books and nonfiction. Walter Dean Myers’ life as a child was centered around his neighborhood and church. Although he dropped out of school at the age of seventeen to enlist in the U.S. Army, Walter Dean Myers loved to read and write as a child, but he never thought that he would be able to make a living off of his hobby. Walter Dean Myers has received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Coretta Scott King Award for African-American authors.

One of the most prolific and widely successful young adult authors, Walter Dean Myers, was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia in 1937. Born into an impoverished family, Myers’s mother died when he was only two, forcing his father to give up custody of him to foster parents Herbert and Florence Dean. Growing up, Myers spent a majority of his childhood in Harlem, New York where his loving foster parents introduced him to reading. At this time, Myers also began writing to overcome his severe speech impediment.

Brandon Sanderson is a fantasy and science fiction writer, who is very successful in what he does. Starting at the very beginning, Sanderson was born December 19, 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Throughout school he never liked reading the books his teachers would give him. Until 8th grade his reading teacher gave him the book “Dragonsbane” by Barbara Hambly. He fell in love and he began to become an avid reader. He enjoyed reading books from the authors who wrote about science or fantasy. He went to college to study chemistry, but soon left for his mission in Seoul, Korea. Brandon got back and realized he didn’t miss chemistry. While going to BYU, he became an English major. Although his mother wished he would be a doctor, he found love in writing. Working at a front desk of a hotel making little money, he wrote 7 short novels. Brandon

Author Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. King is one of the most famous and successful horror writers of all time. His parents, Donald, and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King, split up when he was young, and he and his brother

He published his first short story in a fan magazine in 1938, the same year that he graduated high school. Soon after, he published many more issues of that same fan magazine, Futuria Fantasia. Bradbury didn’t use anyone’s advice, and wrote these short stories by himself. Bradbury said “I was still years away from writing my first good short story,” he later said, “but I could see my future. I knew where I wanted to go.”(www.biography.com). At this point, Bradbury knows he can be a good writer, but it’s going to take some time and effort. Just before World War II, Bradbury published the story Pendulum in 1941. This was considered Bradbury’s first story. Following this story was the collection Dark Carnival. Bradbury was soon known all over the world after his publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950. This book was mostly focused on ancient Greek and Roman mythology. Bradbury was not satisfied with the adapted film of this book. Bradbury’s best work, Fahrenheit 451, was published in 1953. This book became an instant classic in the era of

The Insane Life of Stephen King Stephen King, unlike any other contemporary author, captures his readers’ exclusive attention because of his characters and life that was full of struggle, with which everyone can relate. Even his early life is not that of a typical person’s moving from place to place, watching his mother struggle after his father left his family, and having his own social struggle due to his strange appearance. King began to show his true abilities in college while working at as a dishwasher when he contributed to a school newspaper a very humble beginning. King believes that writing is simple and refuses to preach to his readers, making his writing all the more appealing. He also as strange as it may sound hopes that his short

Stephen King is one of my favorite writers of science fiction. Each of his book is simply amazing, is not an exception and the book "Different Seasons", I read it with great pleasure for a few days. "Different Seasons", which was released in 1982, contains four stories. Each story has a subtitle that associates it with one of the seasons. The structure includes such works -Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Hope Springs Eternal), Apt Pupil (Summer of Corruption), The Body (Fall From Innocence), The Breathing Method (Winter’s Tale). Unlike other works by the author of the book does not contain the elements of horror, which is endowed with a large part of the books of Stephen King. For all four stories were later removed movies. To plunge

Born on September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine, Stephen King was a surprise to his family. Stephen was raised by a mostly single parent. Stephen’s father “left the house to buy a pack of cigarettes…but never returned. Stephen

In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co. accepted the novel Carrie for publication. On Mother’s Day that year, Stephen found out by his editor at Doubleday, Bill Thompson that there would be a major paperback sale would provide him with the means to leave teaching and become a fulltime writer(“The Author”). It was later adapted for the big screen with Sissy Spacek as the title character. More popular novels followed, including Salem’s Lot, The Shining, Firestarter, Cujo, and IT (“Stephen King Biography”). “Get busy living, or get busy dying (“Stephen King Quotes”).” A good portion of Stephen’s career he wrote novels at a breakneck speed (“The Author”).