Reflective Essay On Stephen King

For my piece I began to define beauty based on society’s definition rather than how Clifton defines autism by the dictionary definition. I wanted there to be two different voices heard in my poem. The first voice was that of myself as I reminisce on what beauty felt like as I grew up. The other voice is society and all the ideas that make someone beautiful. I decided to use the word beauty because I have been talking to my sister lately and a boy told her she was not pretty enough to be his girlfriend. I realized writing a poem was a good way to portray to her that no matter what anyone says she is always going to be beautiful. I was able to write my own experience because there is no better way to explain something than through one’s own examples. This advice coming from an older sister is

“Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.” I found this quote one day while web-surfing the internet for information on a project I was working on about pride and I kept it because it made me think of how my Grammy always says,” That stiff neck pride of yours.” I looked it up thinking it was going to be from about the time dirt started forming because my Grammy always tells me she’s older than dirt, so I just knew it was going to be about as old as she was, but surprisingly I found that it was a quote from a book named, “The Gunslinger” by Stephen King and no where nearly as old as dirt. Anyways, I’m using it in my essay because I was reminded of it as I was reading, “Borders” by Thomas King when the son says, “Pride is a good

Stephen King wrote a very brief essay titled "Why we Crave Horror Movies", in which he explained some of the reasons that people choose to go to horror movies to be entertained. In his essay, King goes on to explain that we as a people need horror movies as a sort of release; to feed the darker elements within all of us without having to sacrifice our humanity (also, civility). King does this by comparing people based on their levels of sanity whereas some societal "eccentricities" are completely acceptable, while some will get you thrown right into the loony bin. It’s summed up pretty well in this quote:

I have always loved to write, and it became even more evident when I entered elementary school. I quickly befriended a girl named Beth, who lived just down the road from me. One afternoon that I remember in particular was in the middle of the summer. She and I were set to write a book. We had read countless storybooks on our own, and we could not see why we could not write one too. We sat down with a notebook and two pencils, and we were set to go.

In the Novel the body by Stephen king The Character Gordie Lachance is a very girfted kid. Gordie is very creative having the ability to create stories for his friends and he also like writing stories. Gordie is also has good teamwork skills being able to act efficient in a group of people. Gordie was also neglected but he still managed to be successful.

As I was lying in bed recalling the event happened an hour before I was thinking to myself that I will never look at lightning the same way again. Thunder and lightning was still present in the night sky as I lay there in bed thanking God I was alive and well. Each flash of lightning lit the entire room and each clap of thunder rattled the windows of my hotel room. Lightning can seem much more terrifying when you’re up 20,000 ft in the mountains, and the thunder sounds a lot louder too. The sound of nature’s fury seemed to slowly descend as the night went on, but my nerves did not. I was still stunned and in shock of being stuck in a lightning storm high in the mountains. I never thought about the power and damage lightning can inflict

Stephen King said, “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They’re inside us, and sometimes, they win.” This quote sums up the arguments made in the article “Why We Crave Horror” and what King believes. Stephen King makes three correct claims saying that humans crave horror to have a peculiar sort of fun, face our fears, and reestablish our feelings of normalcy.

Can you imagine what the world would be like if everyone was mentally ill? If the only way for people to feel normal was to watch a horrific, bloody movie? In Stephen King’s essay “Why We Crave Horror Movies”, King states that “we’re all mentally ill...those outside the asylum only hide it a little better”(King 1). I completely disagree, if we were all mentally ill, murder would be legal, and killing people would be a daily ritual. Also if we are supposedly “mentally ill” that means that even cute, pure babies are mentally ill also, and that they also crave a good horror movie. This suggests that there is not one person on this planet that doesn’t crave watching the blood and gore of horror movies. King’s statements are clearly false because we all know at least one person that is still afraid of the dark, let alone Jack the Ripper who cuts people’s bodies to shreds. So, if people openly reject the nightmare forced horror movies, that means we all don’t “crave” them.

I have wanted to be a writer since before I could read. As a child, I copied picture books out onto sheets of paper, with the illustrations and all of the letters, before I could even put

I learned how to write stories when i was a little kid. As I grew up and got older I got better and better. I learned

As the main topic suggests, what are the types of horrors associated with media? First off, you might want to think about what your definition of fear is, what unsettles you, and what rubs you the wrong way. Well according to Stephen King, this can be broken down into three types; which is the gross-out, horror, and terror. The gross-out in this case is what it is. It’s things we as humans find disgusting, morbid, or diseased. To provide an example; picture yourself waking up in your bed, all seems normal right? You then look around and notice a severed torso sitting on your computer chair. Morbid right? Onto the next type which is horror. Stephen King places the supernatural under this category; it’s creatures or unnatural happenings

Stephan King is easily one of the most well-known writers in the horror genre. Often regarded as “The Master of Horror,” King’s impact on the horror genre is remarkable, and he has written both books and screenplays. Many of his works have been turned into movies, further increasing his popularity. Most people at least vaguely know who Stephen King is, but not many know his real story. In today’s time Stephen King entrances audiences and his classic books are converted into screenplays for movies.

I remember the first poem I ever wrote. I was in the 4th grade, so about eight years old. The poem was about horses (because that is every little girl's’ obsession) and it was truly appalling. I didn’t really start writing poetry seriously until I was in high school. When I was desperate for all form of creative outlets. I was enamoured with series of novels by Ellen Hopkins, all of which were written in verse. My imagination would take her words and create abstract drawings or ideas for paintings. It was during my time in university when I truly met the poet inside me. I would write poems to go with my art, I would make art from poems or

I’ve always enjoyed writing. I started to write as early as the third grade, where I would imagine curious stories about my favorite cartoon or video game characters. I fell in love with the fact that whatever I thought of, I could expand upon the thought in an even bigger way than just devising it. I didn’t enjoy reading too much though, I never had the patience to sit down and focus until the sixth grade. So, I always hated the book reports they had us do. Even though, we had to write a whopping two sentences a chapter, I still complained. Back to writing.

And I poured my heart out into this poem, and not once did she make me recognize the fact that I supposedly hated to do this--writing, schoolwork; she had a way of making us all forget that we were “doing work”. And anyway, so I poured my heart out into this poem, and I thought this was the best poem ever, and I thought I would win the Pulitzer prize---and I had used every cliché in the book. Hold on, cliché? What’s cliché? “But, Ms. R, these are my emotions, literally flowing out of my heart onto the page, withholding my innermost deepest passions and desires.” She didn’t buy it--Thank God! “Stella, work outside what you already know, use a metaphor that you’ve never heard before, don’t use the word passion or desire or love or heart or caress or ...........”