Stephen King Flaws

Through the use of highly improbable and unexpected events, Stephen King’s “Children of the Corn” creates fear and suspense. The story opens with Burt arguing with his wife Vicky, which causes his attention to sway from the road. Despite Vicky’s warning, Burt does not turn his attention back to the road in time. Burt runs over a boy, but the strange part was that after examination of the body, the boy’s “throat” was slit, and also his blood “splattered” quite far (2).

Alejandro Mendoza - Pena. HIST 2020-005 Last Stand “Last Stand” by Michael Punke follows the decline of the American Buffalo and the movement that was born to protect it from extinction.1 It follows George Bird Grinnell and the significant role he played in helping create the preservation of the bison. While the book goes into detail on this movement, it also goes into detail on what caused it. It explains that it was mostly overhunting and greed that threatened the buffalo. “The American Yawp” by Joseph Locke and Ben Wright goes into detail about America’s history throughout the years.2 Specifically, chapter 17, titled “The West,” talks about westward migrations, the Indian wars, and federal peace policies.

The use of diction, imagery, details, language, and sentence structure are very prominent in Jack Finney’s short story Contents of the Dead Man’s Pockets. He provides imagery that pulls you in and creates a sense of terror. Language full of suspense creates a tone that keeps you gripped to the story, waiting to see what will happen next. The author’s complex word choice is only one of the many things that sets Finney apart as a writer and makes his work so much more interesting and fun to read.

“Strawberry Spring” offers the reader an opportunity to “show that we are not afraid” of facing our fears (King, “Why We Crave” 1). After all, anyone who has heard of Stephen King will automatically know that reading one of his stories may result in a thrill. For example, near the beginning of the narrator’s encounter, “a junior named John Dancey” happened upon a “dead girl lying in a shadowy corner of the Animal Sciences parking lot” (King, “Strawberry Spring” 2). Accordingly, the explicitly specific imagery used to reveal the brutality of Gale Cerman’s death is quite unsettling! Most of us spend our entire lives avoiding our “hysterical fear” of death, and allowing us to read such a description is “daring [our] nightmares” (King, “Why We Crave” 1). “Strawberry Spring” fulfills Stephen King’s claim that one reason we watch and read horror is to show “that we are not afraid” (1).

In the short story “Sea Oak,” George Saunders presents a family that is struggling with life in the poor neighborhood of Sea Oak. The narrator works as a male stripper in Joysticks, run by Mr. Frendt. The story also revolves around Auntie Bernie, who dies, resurrects, and dies again after advising the narrator, his sister Min, and their cousin Jade to adopt unorthodox and immoral means of making it in life. Two main themes that emerge in Saunders’ work are grief and loss that people suffer in life, and how the society teaches to deal with them, including the loss of a fruitful life, lack of wealth and success, as well as death.

The term 'executive pay' has acquired bad connotations over the past decade or so and the recent Occupy Wall Street movement brought this issue back into public consciousness on a worldwide scale (Minder, 2013). In Switzerland, the parliament recently passed legislation that would limit executive compensation excesses under threat of fines and imprisonment and the European Parliament agreed to limit banker bonuses to twice their base salaries. Adding fuel to this fire was last month's announcement that the golden parachute for departing Novartis Chairman Daniel Vasella would include a $78 million dollar severance payment.

In, “The Landlady” foreshadowing portrays suspense by helping the reader infer that there will be more information about the two characters, Mr. Mulholland and Mr. Temple. It also lets the reader assume that the Landlady is going to kill Billy Weaver. Diction also depicts suspense by creating a distinction in setting and suggests to the reader that the Landlady murdered Mr. Mulholland and Mr. Temple. In, “A Tell-Tale Heart” foreshadowing illustrates suspense by letting the reader infer that the narrator will murder the old man. Foreshadowing also shows suspense by suggesting the sound that motivates narrator to kill the old man will be brought up again in the story. Tone/diction depict suspense as well for the reader by making the narrator seem more eager to murder the old man and lets the reader assume that he will mess-up while lying to the officers. The theme that some people that are insane, believe they are sane contributes to both short stories, thus making a direct connection between the occurrence murder and

In Stephen King’s somewhat subjective essay in the 1984 Playboy magazine, Why We Crave Horror Movies, King describes his reasoning behind why so many people are fond of watching movies residing in the horror genre. The content of his essay, though inserted in an unconventional area for

First, “The Tell-Tale Heart” develops horror by having an unreliable crazy narrator. For example, we see his psyche in the introduction of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story. “I heard all things in the heaven and earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?” (par. 1). This gives the audience the insight into the narrator’s mind; therefore, the narrator has some sort of schizophrenia that causes him to not hear, think, or behave correctly. As the narrator talks to the reader he thinks he is not crazy and that his thoughts are normal. Next, the short story is written in first person point of view which makes the story way more interesting and you see how mad this character is. “I grew furious as I gazed upon it” (par. 9). In first person point of view the reader can almost imagine the whole situation as the narrator is in the old man’s room looking at his vulture eye. Plus, the narrator killing the old man was premeditated, and that the narrator was in the man’s house to murder him due to his mental health issues. The psycho narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” develops horror in this short story.

Stephen King is a wise man who has lived a lot longer than I have, therefore, he carries much more wisdom with him about writing and what it takes to be one. King tells of why he writes and his experiences with bad writing in books he had read in his younger years, which made him a better writer. He also gives advice to those who wish to write and how they could be better. These are just a few things King shares in his work On Writing.

The purpose of this article is to inform the audience of new ways to help people with mental illnesses and explain some of the changes that happen in their brains. The author even mentions how free will might not even really exist. “What the lack of free will and the lack of free won’t have in common is the lack of “free” (Eagleman 10).” This is talking about the fact that what we consider free will now could just be something within our genes. Eagleman also talks about people developing mental illnesses that make them change and do things that they never did before.

The events happening in the story can really happen, and this allows open-minded readers to put themselves in the story line and feel what O’Connor makes the characters feel. A great example of creating fear and sympathy in the audience is when O’Connor writes, “There were two more pistol reports and the grandmother raised her head like a parched old turkey hen crying for water and called, ‘Bailey Boy, Bailey Boy!’ as if her heart would break” (O’Connor 454). In this line, readers feel hearts almost break in sympathy for the grandmother as if they have lost their own son, but soon fear creeps up because everyone has been murdered except the grandmother, leaving her alone with evil. Through characterization, O’Connor creates an emotional and relatable connection between the story and the readers, which is a great element that defines good writers from great writers. Reading is just a way for people to escape the everyday redundancies of life, even if it is met with fear and sympathy.

In Stephen King's "Why we Crave Horror", the famous novelist argues for a rather depressing explanation of society's fixation with horror movies. He insinuates today's generation's obsession over gory and demonic storylines is a result of our internal need for violence that must be satisfied. Such claims may shock readers at first, however, King's use of diction, imagery and tone leave us no choice but to agree with his analysis of human behaviour. He uses these rhetorical tools to prove to the naive reader that we truly are "mentally ill".

Malmar McKnight’s frightening story, “The Storm”, weaves a violent storm and murder together to heighten the horrific fears that engulf Janet Willsom. “The Storm” is a combination of Mother Nature, Janet’s emotions, and her heartbreaking dilemmas. The eerie mood is revealed throughout the story. Figurative language helps the reader bring the story to life in his/ her mind. The author’s use of irony is devolved through Janet’s changed perception of the storm.

Fresh water is less dense than salt water, which causes fresh water to accumulate on the top surface of the salt water. In the brine experiment, I concluded that freshwater has a density of 1.0 g/ml and salt water has a density of 1.025g/ml. After removing the cups of salt water and freshwater from the freezer it was evident that the freshwater was frozen throughout, however the salt water had a layer of water below the freezing fresh water. Salt water freezes at a lower temperature than fresh water.