Stephen King's 'The Night Shift'

The Boogeyman represents many things, such as, anger, fear and paranoia. You think that it is only children who are afraid of "boogeymen", but in this story we see that also adults get afraid and paranoid and believe that there is something in the closet, under the bed, down in the basement etc.

Due to how interested I am with this captivating film, I once again decided to research a review on the movie IT directed by Andy Muschiettie. Specifically looking for an article discussing symbolism I stumbled upon “Stephen King’s It is the rare monster movie with too much monster” written by Tahsa Robinson. Collectively, the passage discusses many elements of symbols in the film, but ultimately leads back to how the title monster makes appearance too often (Robinson). However, I disagree with this statement because the creature is presented to remind the audience that It is always there; terrorizing its prey before consumption as one would season a piece of meat before a meal. This directing style of presenting the monster in the beginning and often throughout is different from that of other movie that keep the monster hidden to build suspense and fear. Having It on screen in multiple scenes allows terror to build for the victims or, in the case of the film, for the victims to develop bravery in the face of fear.

Next, King then appeals to pathos by telling the truth about what his people have gone through. He does this by using lines such as, “When you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim.”, and “when you have seen hate-filled policeman curse, kick, and even kill your black brothers and sisters.” In these lines he is using language to incite a dark emotional feel. He then uses parallelism, such as “lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim.” By using this kind of language and sentence structure King is making you envision and feel what he had to see his friends and family go through in those hard times. Throughout the whole paragraph using this kind of sentence structure and a lot of imagery the audience starts to feel what it would be like to be in King’s position and feel the pain and troubles he had to go through. It is an emotional paragraph, and using this strategy at the beginning of his letter captures the attention of his audience. This is what King

Ready Player One hits some of the same situations as in the holocaust or for the book that we read “Night” like taking people spread out over a good area and combining them into a small dense area. They both also touch on the topic of how when someone is killed or something is blown up now one raises an eyebrow or if they do no one does anything about it.

The novel “Night” is a vivid representation of a man’s loss of faith from the beginning to the end of the catastrophic era in which this book takes place. As a young boy Elie’s inquisitive mind directed him to the synagogue where he would study the Kabbalah’s revelations and mysteries. Here is where “Moishe the beadle,” a friend to Elie, would sit with him in the synagogue and they would talk for hours about the intriguing secrets of Jewish mysticism. One important piece of advice that Moishe told Elie was, “There are a thousand and one gates allowing entry into the orchard of the mystical truth.” This simply meant he would need to pursue these answers on his own. However, Elie believed Moishe would help him bind his questions and answers as well, into one. These meetings were interrupted when Moishe was extracted from the Sighet where he experienced malice.

The conflict of Stephen King’s short story “The Boogeyman” is crucial to the reader’s understanding of Lester Billings’ children getting killed by the boogeyman. Even though Billings knows that something killed his children, he does not know what. The protagonist is Lester Billings and the antagonist is the boogeyman. King added conflict in the short story because he wanted to create tension, making readers more interested in the story. The conflict in the story is that the boogeyman keeps on killings his children one at a time and billings does not know how to stop it.

It was the summer of 1983; I was reading my first Horror novel by Jay Anson “The Amityville Horror”, it was the scariest thing I had ever picked up. Despite the late hours I continued to read into the early morning hours until my eyes burned for relief. Whenever I got up to use the rest room I would stand on the end of my bed lean over and open the door and jump so not to be grabbed by monsters that might be laying in wait under my bed. This started a long love affair for horror stories.

Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night explores the life of an American Spy, Howard W. Campbell Jr., living the life of a Nazi propagandist during the Second World War. Campbell grows distant throughout the novel and is unable to make decisions on his own. Vonnegut displays that tragedy has extensive and long lasting effects on an individual. This idea is shown through Campbell’s loss of his writings, the death of his wife and the actions of the war he witnessed.

Night John is a book by James Patterson. It is a book about a girl named Sam who wants to learn about literature. Night John comes along and teaches her how to read and write. The cost for reading and writing for slaves was heavy back then though. Some questions about the book are answered in the body of the essay.

The hallway was dark and musty, with a faint smell of smoke. Two friends were turning the corner when a man covered in blood, wielding a rusty chainsaw, jumped out at them. The friends both screamed in surprise, and then burst into laughter. They were in the middle of a haunted house, enjoying the fear they felt at the sound of every loud noise and sight of each creepy figure. Many people pay to go to haunted houses, watch horror movies, and read frightening novels because they love to feel fear. There is actually a chemical reason as to why people find it enjoyable. Richard Matheson, an American author and screenwriter, mastered the ability of scaring his readers. In his haunting novel Hell House, Matheson creates a story that readers

Horror is ingrained in human society, in our movies, in our music, in our stories. Horror is inescapable; it surrounds us, it envelops us. Horror is part of being human; in fact, the definition is being frightened or disgusted. There are two short stories, which truly fit this definition of horror, Going to Meet The Man by James Baldwin and The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe. Going to Meet The Man by James Baldwin and The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe utilize too very different forms of horror, Baldwin using vivid, disgust-provoking imagery, and Poe using terror to provoke fear, however both incorporate a similar theme, that man is capable of horrible atrocities.

The Author of the book is Mark Haddon it’s a Mystery novel and It was published in the year 2003 since then over 2 million copies were sold.

After reading the book “Night” I wanted to know why people try to put others down to make them feel better about themselves. I’m writing this paper because I don’t like that people are stereotypical and racist. This topic doesn’t really interest me, it just makes me curious as to why people are like this. Did something happen to them to make them hate on others? Are they just like that? Reading about the holocaust and how they were treated really made me want to why people treat others like that. In “Night” all the prisoners are treated as if they aren’t human, they’re treated like animals and I don’t know why the officers try to dehumanize them for their race but it is really sad. The prisoners had to run miles after not eating for

In horror stories there is just enough mystery to make you want to know more, and enough danger to make you glad this is fiction. Scary stories can allow people to conquer their own adversities. We all have our demons, things we’re afraid of but don’t want to admit. Some horror novels play on common fears like IT by: Stephen King which uses clowns as the source for fear, Chucky which features menacing dolls and Contagion which portrays rampant pestilence. By vicariously facing your fears in a novel, you’re able to tame them in real life. Sometimes even watching a character deal with the monster uplifts you to face your own fears. The concept of gruesome entertainment is all in human psychology. In order for us to be entertained, we have to feel the story being told. Scary stories bring us the adrenaline rush, the exploration of the unknown, and even the upliftment we all crave. Luckily the monsters in these stories are all fiction and cannot harm us in real life. Until they show up the next night, waiting for you in the

Virginia Woolf, portrayed by Nicole Kidman in Stephen Daldry’s The Hours, is an author who experiences depressive symptoms while writing her novel, Mrs. Dalloway (Fox, 2003). In this paper, I will demonstrate that Virginia Woolf meets the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for a major depressive episode.