Stephen King, Christine - Text Analysis

Richard Wagamese, the award-winning author of the novel Keeper’n Me (2006) as well as various other literary pieces such as Dream Wheels (2006), Medicine Walk (2014), and Indian Horse (2012), was born in 1955 in Northwestern Ontario and is from the Wabaseemoong First Nation. Through the combination of Wagamese’s fictional writing blended with components of his personal life in Keeper’n Me specifically, the fifty-nine year old author has been recognized for this and other phenomenal works through a variety of diverse awards in his years of writing including being the recipient of the 2012 National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Media and Communications. His debut novel allows audiences to get a glimpse of what this writer is capable of and furthermore his personal life as he incorporates many fascinating concepts into it while keeping it a light read.

The story written by Stephen King in Reading To Write, confirm to us that when you are interested in achieving something, you have to be willing to put in the efforts. You cannot assume to take on a task without doing something outside the box. Putting effort, love and joy into a work will help achieve a goal faster. Becoming a writer necessity a lot of reading, many sacrifice, and passion to be recognize as a writer. Willing to read multiple article or Novel will prepared you to great experience, it helps you to discover you talent. It open your eyes on your mistake and you progress, and give your ability to write.

The strong and young female lead is portrayed by Katy. She and her family live on a ranch and to be a ranching family, you have to chip in. While out riding one day, she comes across something she had only dreamed about; a wild mustang. The imagery behind this particular scene evokes strong emotions. During this scene, Katy is shocked after her and her horses encounter with a lion on their land, however as her eyes glaze through the thick brush she spots this young, black mustang whose beauty and pureness over shined the scratches on her back and dirt from being wild. This movie shows us how to appreciate what we never thought would be possible. The music, scenery and facial expressions all balance out rather evenly to evoke strong emotions such as astonishment and admiration by the audience.

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.

Connie has a tendency to daydream, so she daydreams about Eddie and thinks about “how sweet he always was, not the way someone like June would suppose but sweet, gentle, the way it was in movies and promised in songs” (625). She is soon snapped out of this fairy tale when a man named Arnold Friend confronts her. He actually treats her like she is the grown woman that she wants to be and this aspect is very scary for Connie. He pulls up driving a car and his car is a symbol for an underlying theme in the story. It is evident that only men drive in the story, never women. The only time a woman drove in the story is the dent in Arnold’s car and written in it was “done by a crazy woman driver”(627). Not only is Connie young, but also she is a woman and the car represents the mobility and freedom that women do not tend to have during this time period. Arnold says things to her that mirror her search for independence. He knows so much about her, from her name to her family’s name, to the fact that her whole family was gone at the time. He was the perfect package representing independence in a way that Connie was familiar with. He stood in a relaxed way, he wore clothes that she recognized, his smile was friendly and dreamy, and her talked in a “singsong way”(629). Despite all of these factors, something was still not right about him in Connie’s eyes. These factors

Montag continues walking through the morning sun. Nervously, he tries to recite pages from books he remembered before, his memory is dull. It is blocked by the loud ringings of bombs still exploding in his ears. Granger takes a look at Montag.

He walked on the tracks. And he was surprised to learn how certain he suddenly was of a single fact he could not prove. His mind turned to a strange noise he heard behind him. A loud gasping sound overwhelmed his ears and his body slowly turned around. Montag was shocked to see that Beatty was following him. With the flamethrower in hand, Montag walked cautiously towards the man who should be died. They stared at each other for what feels like years but seconds. Beatty falls to the ground with burn marks on a quarter of his body and begins to speak. “You are going the wrong way” Beatty says “You were supposed to turn left 25 yards back.” Montag look confused and asked “Where are you helping me?” “I believe in the same cause as you” said Beatty. Without asking another question, Montag walks to Beatty and reaches out his hand and walked 25 yards.

(DeFilippo) His first book “Carrie” was a huge success after its’ publication. (“Stephen King Biography”) At the time of publishing his books such as; “Salem’s Lot,” “The Shining,” “Firestarter,” “Cujo,” and “IT,” he also published books under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. A few of Richard Bachman works include; “The Rage,” “The Long Walk,” and “The Running Man”.

As Catcher in the Rye progresses, Holden’s experiences become more meaningful and reflective; as a result, the protagonist accelerates towards his inevitable breakdown, revealing a pain-riddled, lost, thoughtful, oddly hopeful, and utterly real personality in the process. Holden is increasingly disgusted with how normal people approach life, thus making him unsure in how to approach his own life. “People never think anything is anything really. I’m getting goddamn sick of it” (Salinger 190). This prodded question of what is meaningful reverberates throughout the movies, plays, books, stories, and other creative works that span the length of human existence. Nodding at the true root of his obsession with phoniness, Holden often struggles with

Stephen King was born in 1947 into a poor family that was later abandoned by his father. He always had a passion for writing and became a high school teacher before he could kick-start his outstanding writing career says, “Biography.com”. Stephen King, a 'New York Times'-bestselling novelist and one of the most well known authors of our time, was directly influenced by the culture he grew up in and his own experiences in life. “Here There Be Tygers” is one of King’s earlier works and it emits strong similarities between the short story and the culture he grew up in. In 1974, a year after Stephen King’s mother died of cancer, King had published the short story “Sometimes They Come Back” (DeFilippo 1). Around the same time, Stephen King’s substance abuse problem got worse. In The double-edged pen: Omnipotent fantasies in the creativity and addictions of Stephen King, King proposes, “The death of his mother was one of the major factors that propelled his drinking habits to another level” (Kahoud 335). With those two things combined, death and addiction, King was influenced. You can see this influence intermixed throughout the short story “Sometimes They Come Back” and throughout many of his stories. In the story the tragedy of his mother's cancer is seen throughout, for the main character's mother died of cancer as well (King 2). The addiction is shown as well, through physical demons that drive the main character to an eventual death. In the article, Stephen King: The

King introduces the theme of love and love triangle before introducing Christine, effectively avoiding confusion to the readers. The first sentence in the prologue states that the novel is “…a story about a love triangle” (King 1), clearly stating to the readers that this is one of the main themes of the novel. Dennis, who is the narrator of the quote, also describes Christine as Arnie’s first and only true love (King 1). Further solidifying the importance of the theme love triangles within the novel. This makes it easier for the reader to accept the fact that Christine is part of the love triangle as a person rather than a car. To prove a love triangle existed since the beginning of the novel, King begins with Arnie and Dennis’s first encounter of Christine. With the prologue’s setting of the theme in the minds of the readers, King then introduces a female character to the story. While Dennis was driving, Arnie said, “go back, I want to look at her again” (King 7). By addressing the car as a female, Arnie acknowledges that the car is not seen as a car but rather an actual person. His view of Christine as a woman instead of an inanimate object adds to the love triangle because one character see’s the car as a person, who can be added into the love triangle. Within the prologue, love is shown between Arnie and Christine the car. King writes, “Arnie had fallen in love with a 1958 Plymouth Fury…” (King 7). This quote shows Arnie has fallen for Christine head over heels. This is yet another sign of an existing love triangle within the book. These elements in the introduction that personify Christine are what make the love triangle so effective for the reader. Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy also employs this tactic of introducing themes early within the novel through character introductions. The theme of friendship is introduced when Benny Hogan and Eve Malone

Stephen King is arguably one of the greatest writers of our time. He has not only written over 60 books, but most of his novels end up on the New York Times best seller list. He has a loyal fan base, which always are willing to endure his lengthy books because they know that it will be worth their time in the end. King himself, though, has had to deal with a lot of his own demons. He has struggled with both drugs and alcohol (How Stephen King, programwp.com). While King's alcoholism and drug addiction would eventually lead to rehab, it was during this time of the advisory that King would write many of his greatest works.

On what seems like an ordinary Saturday for Trisha McFarland, the main character in The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King, will soon be turned upside down when she becomes lost on the Appalachian Trail. At only nine years old, Trisha is able to maneuver her way through the Appalachian woods for a full week before being rescued. Though, throughout this novel, it is questionable if Trisha is actually nine because of her interests, maturity of the situation, and extensive knowledge as they seem more likely to be of a teenager or even young adult.

She is telling her husband that she really just can not believe what happened that night with the white cop. She leaves in the studio crying with her car and drives carelessly, which causes an awful car accident. Her car is turned upside down, and she is trapped inside. Also, her car is about to explode with flames, but surprisingly, the same white cop, who molested her, appears on the scene and struggles to rescue her. Unfortunately, Christine does not want to accept his help at first because she recognizes him as the cop who molested her. The white cop tells her that he will not hurt her and will free her, but as he is saying those words, the fire begins to go through the inverted car. The other cops pull out the white cop, but he goes back into the car and cuts out Christine’s seat belt to get her out. Luckily, the white cop pulls her out just before the car explodes. It shows in the movie that her eye contact expresses gratitude to him. Overall, even though Christine Tayer and Jean Cabot come from different ethnic groups, both realize and understand that the people who they hated and judged the most based on their actions and race will help them when they are in

Every era has its own artist of the year whether they are a painter, a writer, or a musician. Some may go without recognition until posthumously or might have a troublesome start in their works. Despite these events, artists exceed in their field and achieve recognizability. Jane Austen and Stephen King have faced these hardships in literature yet have reached such fame to be dubbed in titles such as The King of Horror. Each author stands out in numerous ways from their writing style and how they influence society and history and yet come together in so many ways.