Stephen King: Journey To Become A Writer

A good novel entertains the reader. An excellent novel entertains and enlightens the reader. Set in a Cajun community in the late 1940’s, A Lesson Before Dying is a heart-warming tale of injustice, acceptance and redemption. A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest J. Gaines is an excellent novel. Not only does Gaines inform the reader, he entertains will his effective storytelling. His use of symbolism, voice and stylistic devices keeps the reader enticed to the very last page.

Early in On Writing, Stephen King uses imagery in sentences such that the reader can clearly visualize what he is trying to convey. Without imagery, the reader will not be interested in the book as much and will think the book is dull and boring. Using imagery helps bring the reader into the story and experience what the author is trying to demonstrate. For example, when King was on his way to the hospital to meet his wife who was about to give birth, he says, “a couple of hundred horns blared a satiric salute. Many people flicked their headlights on and off, bathing me in a stuttery glow.”

What’s a good book if it is not terrifying? Throughout the decades there have been different types of authors that have created terrifying books such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. But how do the authors terrify and surprise a reader? The author surprises and terrifies the reader by using foreshadowing, setting, and cliffhanger. This can be seen in the short story, “August Heat” by W.F. Harvey. The author uses these types of task to surprise and terrify the reader.

Educators have long been arguing that literary education, in school and beyond, is crucial for emotional development. However, until recently, very little evidence existed to scientifically support this idea. In his article, “This is How Literary Fiction Teaches Us to Be Human”, author Tom Blunt makes a concise but persuasive argument about why literature is essential for human emotional development. In order to effectively prove his point, Blunt cites both scientific and anecdotal evidence and emphasizes the essential nature of empathy, derived from reading literature, to future generations.

The son of Italian immigrants, Mike Rose was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and raised in Los Angeles, California. He is a graduate of Loyola University (B.A.), the University of Southern California (M.S.), and the University of California, Los Angeles (M.A. and Ph.D.). Over the last forty years, he has taught in a range of educational settings, from kindergarten to job training and adult literacy programs. He is currently on the faculty of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

Dear Mrs. Linda sue Park,the book you wrote “A Long Walk to Water” has spoke to me and opened my eyes to what is really going on outside our “bubble.” Your book has a real meaning unlike some of the books I have read. I loved how you had put Nya’s part at the beginning and showed how their stories ended up crossing paths; That was a really cool and interesting choice it kept me wanting to read more. That was a great story to be told and I can’t wait to read more of your books. I think there are plenty more great stories out there to be told by a great writer just like you.

This is one of King's favorites because “It was, so far as I can remember, the first book with hands – strong ones that reached out of the pages and seized me by the throat. It said to me, ‘This is not just entertainment; it’s life-or-death.’ ” ( csmonitor ) A smaller author who's not as well known that influenced Stephen King is Bentley Little, who wrote books horror novels as well as King. “ He’s probably

With a unique and brilliant style of writing, Raymond Carver has left a lasting and outstanding impact on the history of short stories. Even though Raymond Carver left a long impact, his life was of the opposite. Like Raymond Carver’s famous award winning stories, his life was short. Raymond Carver was born on May 25th, 1938 in Clatskanie, Oregon, a mill town on the Columbia River. Carver grew up in Yakima, Washington. Carver had three members to his small family, his mother, his father, and brother. Carver’s only had one sibling, his younger brother, James Franklin Carver. Carver’s mother worked as a waitress and a retail clerk while Carver’s father worked as a fisherman and a saw mill worker. Many say that a skilled sawmill worker and

I personally believe that with any story told or movie made that you have to creator’s life to see where the story actually comes from. No matter what we do in life we all as human beings find a way to show what we have been through in our lives. Raymond Carver was no different just he had a really tough road that he traveled and it showed in his stories. According to an interview with William, Stull in “Matters of Life & Death: An Interview with Raymond Carver” Carver also understood that his life showed through in his work, “Wolff said in a review of my first book of stories that he felt he could pick out a story of mine without seeing my name attached to it. I took that as a compliment. If you can find an author's fingerprints on the work, you can tell it's his and no other's.” (Stull 14-17) Carver’s life bled through his work and in “The Bath” we can see this. In “The Bath” we have a couple dealing with the accident their son had been in and it seemed to push them apart more than they already were. The fact of the couple losing touch with each other managed to transcend the story into Carver’s real life, Carver’s marriage to his first wife Maryann. But instead of an accident pushing Raymond and Maryann apart, it was Raymond’s addiction to Alcohol and the problems that came with his addiction.

The three books, Nightfall, by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, Left for Dead, by Pete Nelson, and The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart, all have aspects of fear within the novels. In each novel fear is displayed differently, some characters reacted in a very demented way and others almost fear nothing. Therefore, each book revealed various characteristics about characters that did not seem appropriate for them.

Stephen King's The Boogeyman was my favorite piece of gothic literature that we read. I was trying to figure the story out all the way until the end and had to re-read some of it to fully understand. It was suspenseful, scary, but also had a good story to listen to. The Boogeyman was full of gloomy settings, monsters, characters in distress, and intense emotions. These 4 things are just a couple elements that make up gothic literature.

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Anyone can argue on who uses literary devices best, but there’s one author who just surpasses all others. According to his website, this man’s parents split when he was just a toddler, and he lived with his mother, who worked in a mental institution. Many of his pieces are set in locations he’s dwelled, and his creepy horrors are inspired by the one and only Edgar Allen Poe. He started as a writer for a local article, and has grown to be one of the most well-known novelists today. Stephen King uses literary devices such as irony, foreshadowing, and imagery to best convey his fearful novels.

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James Baldwin is an exceptionally writer who tested the water with writing. He was a writer who was not afraid to talk about new things that most writers of his time would not do. Most people did not know that Baldwin was actually a part of the civil rights movement. He was a writer who tried to write out and explain to the black experience to the white people. Even though he was not talking about as much as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, he was a big part of the civil rights movement. As you read this essay you will see how Baldwin became the writer that he is known to be today and also why he wrote, also learn about how he opened the door to thing that most writers of his time would not talk about.