Stephen King Analysis

In the essay Civilized Vampires Versus Savage Werewolves: Race and Ethnicity in Twilight, Natalie Wilson argues for an examination of how werewolves and vampires are depicted in the hit book trilogy Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. Wilson has a doctorate in women's studies and literature, and has written a great deal of books and essays upon the Twilight series and many other monster-based book through the lense of a feminist writer. (Wilson). She posted regularly on her blog while all the Twilight movies came out, and she’s recently been writing another book and editing old essays. Her very first published book was called Seduced by Twilight, and she has a blog by the same title (Wilson).

End of Watch: a police phrased used in two scenarios; when an officer is done with their current shift, or when the officer is killed in the line of duty. Stephen King used this as a foreshadowing title for the final book of the Bill Hodges trilogy. To conclude the series, King disjoints from the first two realistic books into a supernatural setting.

The book Black Hearts opened my eyes to how leadership from a single Officer can have a grappling effect on such a wide range of soldiers from the lowest of ranks. One of the best takeaways from Black Hearts is to never do anything: illegal, unethical, or immoral. Although this is a easy statement to repeat, Black Hearts demonstrates the difficulties that lie behind these words. It has also painted a picture of how leadership can topple extremely quickly from a top down view. The Army is portrayed in a bad light throughout the book relentlessly. This is due to the concentration of poor leadership of the 1-502nd Regiment (Referred to as “First Strike”), a battalion of the 101st Airborne Division.

A horror story should have some elements to grab the attention of audience such as suspense and mystery. However, it is a challenge to achieve this goal especially in a short story, but that did not seem to be an obstacle for Stephen King, who is famous for writing horror fiction stories. Jeffrey W. Hunter, who is editor of Contemporary Literacy Criticism, believes that Stephen King is a marketing phenomenon for the large number of books he has sold. One of his first works was “Strawberry Spring,” which was published along with other short stories in a book titled Night Shift in 1978. In the same manner as other Stephen King’s writings, “Strawberry Spring” is a story loaded of mystery where death is one of the main components. The story begins with a narrator’s memory about what happened eight years ago when he was in college in 1968. The narrator remembers how a serial killer who was called Springheel Jack came into action during strawberry spring which is a natural phenomenon that only happens every eight years. Four young women were murdered in that year. Despite the efforts and investigations of police, the murderer was never caught. After eight years, the strawberry spring has come back and the killer, as well. Without a doubt, first person narrative point of view, setting, and symbolism are crucial elements that make “Strawberry Spring” a fascinating story.

Authors use literary elements and techniques as tools to convey meaning. These devices are the means by which authors bring richness and clarity to a text. They express moods or feelings that allow the reader to connect with the writing. In On Writing, the author, Stephen King makes use of literary elements to tell his story. The techniques King uses are effective in portraying vivid images and feelings in the reader’s mind.

In Stephen King’s short story “Survivor Type”, King uses imagery, setting and irony to ask the question “What will a person risk in order to survive?” In this short story, Richard Pine, a medical school graduate, surgeon and a pill pusher is on his way back home to the United States with 2 Kilos of heroin, when the cruise ship that he is on sinks after an enormous explosion. Dr. Pine manages to get onto a life boat that takes him to a deserted island which Pine describes as small enough to spit across. He is on the island with very few resources and of course the 2 kilos of heroin worth $350,000. Richard Pine resorts to killing gulls in order to suppress his hunger but then ends up falling into a hole and fracturing his ankle. This

“One person's craziness is another person's reality.” – Tim Burton. We people have a tendency to live our life in suffer for the past because it’s terrifying to face the truth. Unaware that it affects our fellow human beings. Stephen King’s short story “The man who loved flowers” manages to blur the lines between normality and insanity while digging down in the fear of love.

When I was younger I hated practicing the violin. It would be the longest 45 minutes of my life. But after six years of playing the violin I have become to love practicing and actually look forward to it. What changed? I developed a passion for playing the violin, I wanted to improve my skills and prove to myself that I could become better. FIn pages 147-150 On Writing, Stephen King uses diction, detail, and figurative language to emphasize the importance of reading and the sacrifices needed to become a great writer.

On average, you will walk past a murderer ~12 times in your life. The question is, however, who are the killers and who are the innocents? It couldn’t be you, obviously. Since you know that you aren’t guilty, you feel reassured you are within the social norm. This feeling of normality is what makes us feel safe, and one of the reasons why Stephen King’s theory for why we crave horror is correct. King accurately claims that humans watch horror as a way face our fears, re-establish our sense of normality, and to have fun.

Stephen King’s “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft” is a marvelous and unusual text. Within the first part of his book, also called C.V., he explains his life experience up to the day he finishes the book. King expresses his life with multiple literary elements that assist the readers on imagining his life of adventures, catastrophes, fears, and loves. Following are three of my favorite passages that caught my attention.

There are many ways authors write their books that can vary from style, experience, setting, and language. One author that I would like to talk about is Walter Dean Myers and the book that I would want to analyze would be Somewhere In the Darkness. This novel speaks about a poor little boy who was adopted at the age of two after his mother died and had to move to Harlem leaving his family behind . He also had a speech impediment and couldn’t speak or write as well as others but that didn't stop him. The book “Somewhere In The Darkness” is about a boy named Jimmy who was adopted by a very kind-hearted lady after his mother had passed away and his father went into prison. In the book his father is finally released and gave a surprise to Jimmy and takes him to Arkansas to settle down but Jimmy does not trust him. Walter Dean Myers usually writes his books from his own experiences which makes them inspirational, thought out, down to earth, and somewhere relatable to the reader!

(MIP- 2) This society controls many of the rights we take for granted such as knowledge and memory, and this society gets many benefits.

Throughout Malcolm Gladwell essay he describes several examples of activism of different political movements. I agree with Gladwell’s argument about social media, like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc., is a form of weak-tie activism and strong-tie activism requires strong connections to other individuals who are willing to sacrifice for a cause. Throughout the essay, the author takes us through different scenarios in history to prove his point regarding the difference between traditional activism and non-traditional.

Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot is primarily focused on Ben Mars and the residents of Jerusalem Lot being terrorized by Barlow. More interestingly though is the passage illustrating Mark observing Susan, which establishes a gendered binary that demonstrates the imbalanced representation of women. The dynamic of this binary also suggests the hegemonic idea that women are inferior to their masculine counterparts despite their attempts to be independent leaders, which is a masculine position. As a result, Susan is written off as a naïve individual for attempting to emulate the masculine behavior of leadership. She is by no means a damsel in distress, a role that horror often thrust female characters into, and her decision to attempt to stand against the “monster” insights the wrath and opinion of the masculine attitudes in the novel. Furthermore, because women are typically never the true heroes of film or literature, this places Susan in opposition to the idea that women should not possess power. Heroism and leadership are means to power, and hegemonic ideals prevent women from possessing that power. In Salem’s Lot, Ben Mars is meant to be the normative hero, but instances like this places Susan against normative attitudes constructed in the book. Thus, while it may appear that Salem’s Lot is solely about the town’s struggle with the vampiric entity that exists within it, it is also about the attitudes like Mark’s, which are set up to prevent women like Susan from being the hero

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,