...Stephen King is a horror writer who writes novels. He writes in a pretty special way, as he doesn’t know how his horror stories will end. He tells that some of his colleagues (or other horror writers) always start with the last line. That mean they know every single line, detail and so on, before they even start. But not Stephen King. He starts somewhere and then ends up a complete other place. He let his imagination and story get formed by what he already has written – he let the story make itself and make what he already has written inflate himself to something new. For example he tells about a character called the mumbler which he think is fun to write about, but is only a small and more or less indifferent character, but develops itself to a more and more important part of the story. So he let himself inspire of what he already has wrote but also his surroundings. For example he wrote a lot of kids, when he had young kids himself. When he is done with a book he only accept if it’s good enough to be read twice. Stephen King has written, and is known for the shining, which scare me a lot. Some of the things that scare me the most are actually kids. Of course not normal kids on the street and so on, but kids in horror movies is the absolutely worst. I don’t know why, but I think it’s because kids is nice, pure and not evil at all. And when they in movies are, it’s just so scary. It would be like if you took an angle and made it dark, evil and full with...
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...Stephen Hawking Story Life Stephen Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 in Oxford, England. His parents are Frank and Isabel Hawking. In his pregnancy life stage (9 months to birth) his parents had struggles as in they didn’t have much money. It was the beginning of World War II and the onslaught of German bombs. So these political issues probably affected Isabel Hawking as she had stressful pregnancy and probably because of not having much money, she was not having a proper healthy diet. Childhood (4-9 years): He started his schooling at the Byron House; he later blamed its “progressive methods” for his failure to learn read while at the school. So which means his intellectual milestones was happening slowly. This is probably due to his illness. In St Albans, when he was 7, he went to St Albans High School for Girls for a few months; at that time, younger boys could attend one of the houses. This could affect his life as in intellectual way because he changed school lots of time, which means he probably had to catch up a lot of things. That will also affect his emotionally and socially developments because it might be hard for him to find right friends otherwise his motivation will emotionally gone down. Adolescence (10-18 years): When he was 10 years old he attended Radlett School for a year and from September 1952, St Albans School. His family placed a high value on education so that’s why his father wanted him to attend the well-regarded Westminster School, but he...
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...Stephen King is an American author of horror and suspense novels. He has sold over 350 million books worldwide. Many of his books have been made into movies and television shows. Recently Mister King was kind enough to talk about his life and writings in a candid interview. The results of the interview reveal some interesting facts about one of America’s most successful author. He was born as Stephen Edward King on September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. Most of his stories take place in his native state of Maine. When asked about his education, he proudly admitted he graduated from the University of Maine, with Bachelor of Arts degree in English, in 1970. As a child King witnessed his friend being hit by, and killed, a train. He claims that many people credit this traumatizing event as the inspiration for his dark stories, but King denies this. He says that the chief inspiration for writing horror stories came when he discovered a collection of short stories, called The Lurker in the Shadows, in his attic, while rummaging around with his brother. He says while looking at the cover art of the book, he realized what he wanted to do with his life. King revealed that he began writing for fun while in high school. He would sometimes sell writings, about movies he had seen, to his friends. While in high school, King had his first published work. “I Was a Teenage Grave Robber”, was presented in four parts, three of which were published. While in college, King wrote a column...
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...‘The Shining’ is a horror novel by Stephen King. The story mainly revolves around three characters John ‘Jack’ Torrance, Winnifred ‘Wendy’ Torrance, and Daniel ‘Danny’ Torrance. Jack is married to Wendy and their son is Danny. Jack is a recovering alcoholic who had stopped drinking since the night he broke Dany’s arm about 2 years ago. Danny is a child who is very different because he has the Shining which shows him visions with the help of his imaginary friend Tony. The story starts by showing Jack going in for an interview for a huge job for him. Since he was fired from his job as a teacher, Jack finds a job as being the winter caretaker at the scenic, beautiful mountain hotel The Overlook. Although the hotel not really what it seems. It...
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...Stephen King is an accomplished fantasy/horror writer who turned a troubling past into a flourishing career. Mr. King was born Stephen Edwin King to Donald and Ruth Pillsbury King on September 21, 1947. Stephen was described by himself as an unpopular, ungainly child. His father left his mother while Mr. King was young, so he spent time in Fort Wayne, Indiana and Durham, Maine. Mr. King had several hobbies as a child that had an effect on his writing. He would write his own short fiction. Stephen also found his father’s old collection of horror and fantasy books, which Stephen read. Horror movies were a favorite for young Stephen. Mr. King’s mother worked several jobs, so he began to write as a distraction. At the young age of 12, Mr. King would write and submit short fiction works to newspapers. He first professionally published at the age of 18, more short fiction. After graduating from college, Mr. King turned to liquor and drugs before publishing his first novel, Carrie....
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...The book “The Gunslinger” by Stephen King is the first book in “The Dark Tower” series. The main character Roland Deschain of Gilead, who was the gunslinger, the last one, was trying to reach The Man in Black that was supposed to inform him about the Dark Tower. The story took place in a world which had had “moved on”. As Roland traveled across the desert in search of the man in black, he met Brown, a farmer, who offered him to put up for the night. While Roland was there, we learn of his time spent in the town Tull, where he had killed everyone in order not to be killed by them. He awoke the next day and proceeded to go. At the way station Roland met a boy, Jake Chambers, who had died in his own universe (our own). Jake didn’t remember anything. Roland hypnotized him to determine the details of his death, but made him forget it, as Jake's death had been extremely violent and painful. After leaving the way station, Jake and Roland got out of the desert. Jake and Roland made their way into the twisting tunnels below the mountain. Suddenly they met the Man in Black, and as Jake fell from the tracks and now hanged above the abyss, Roland had to decide: save Jake or pursue the Man in Black. Roland chose the last. And Jake fell. He was a sacrifice. After it the man in black read Roland's fate from a pack of cards. Then he created a representation of the universe, attempting to frighten Roland by showing him how truly insignificant he was. After it he was made to fall asleep...
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...Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine on September 21, 1947. His parents names are Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. He has an older brother named is David King. His parents split up when king was really young. He was raised by his mother , which they kept moving around a lot. Finally at the age of eleven, they settled in Durman, Maine. As a young boy he found some of his dads fantasy horror books and he began reading them and by the age of seven he was writing his own stories. He enjoyed watching science fiction and monster movies. His family members said they he would see his friends getting hit by a train or dying but he doesn’t recall of the incident. When they continued their life in Durman, he went to school at Grammar...
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...Hawking contra Philosophy Christopher Norris presents a case for the defence. Stephen Hawking recently fluttered the academic dovecotes by writing in his new book The Grand Design – and repeating to an eager company of interviewers and journalists – that philosophy as practised nowadays is a waste of time and philosophers a waste of space. More precisely, he wrote that philosophy is ‘dead’ since it hasn’t kept up with the latest developments in science, especially theoretical physics. In earlier times – Hawking conceded – philosophers not only tried to keep up but sometimes made significant scientific contributions of their own. However they were now, in so far as they had any influence at all, just an obstacle to progress through their endless going-on about the same old issues of truth, knowledge, the problem of induction, and so forth. Had philosophers just paid a bit more attention to the scientific literature they would have gathered that these were no longer live issues for anyone remotely au fait with the latest thinking. Then their options would be either to shut up shop and cease the charade called ‘philosophy of science’ or else to carry on and invite further ridicule for their head-in-the-sand attitude. Predictably enough the journalists went off to find themselves media-friendly philosophers – not hard to do nowadays – who would argue the contrary case in a suitably vigorous way. On the whole the responses, or those that I came across, seemed overly anxious to strike...
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...“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones” (Stephen King). This quote by Stephen King means that us as humans make up these fictional horrors that scare us half to death to make the horrors of real life seem as though they were nothing. That in essence the horrors that we create in our heads or write down on paper are only a distraction or a diversion that allow us to deal with real life problems, and to make them seem as though they were only 2 feet tall when in reality they’re bigger than the monsters that want to grab your ankles in the night. To summarize, if this quote is true then Stephen King’s life must’ve been quite frightful considering all of his stories leave chills up the spines of its readers. Subsequently, Stephen...
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...Carina Braun Ms. Breuer – 8 Book Review 18 October 2012 11/22/63 by Stephen King I have always loved Stephen King and his disturbing ways of writing. After reading 11/22/63, I was amazed at all the different types of writing he is capable of. I first fell in love with Stephen King’s ways after watching the movie It and later reading the book. I have continued reading his books and watching his movies as they are always spine-chilling, exciting, and very creative. I was over-joyed at the thought of him writing a book about one of my favorite periods in history, the 60’s. My parents gave me 11/22/63 the Christmas of 2011. I started reading this book right away. It begins with a 30-year-old man named Jake. He’s a high school English teacher in the year 2011. Almost every night he eats at Al’s Diner where he knows the owner, Al. Al is about 45 years old and full of life, but one day Jake suddenly notices he’s becoming very sick and weak. Turns out Al has been traveling back in time to the year 1960 and experiencing time back then. Al opens up the opportunity to Jake of going back in time, as Al is now developing cancer. Al gives Jake the mission of going back to 1960 and stopping President John F. Kennedy from being assassinated. Along the way, Jake finds himself changing the future as we know it. He ends up in some tricky situations, such as lying about where he comes from and falling in love with a girl with a messed up past. It’s not an alternate reality sort of book,...
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...someone who everyone would be familiar with, regardless of whether they are a fan or not. I choose to write about the very famous author, Stephen King. Stephen King has always fascinated me, not only as an author but as a person. This is a man who seems to have an imagination that is never ending, with a soul and mind so dark, is it beyond compare. How else could you write and publish over 60 horror books? All of which are unique, intense, and ultimately terrifying. My question is, who is this person and what is it that inspires this creativity and horror? As a child, I grew up in a household of readers. There was never a time I that I can recall my mother, father, brothers, or myself not having one or more books that each of us were reading. My mother’s favorite author was (and is) Stephen King. There was something that intrigued me about this, though I was not allowed to read most of his works for the longest time; of course my mother was concerned that they would be inappropriate for me to read. This only made the intrigue of the author that much more. Once I was old enough to begin discovering his works, I started to understand the attraction. He’s book were like mental train wrecks; there were times when all you wanted to do was put the book down, but couldn’t seem to do so. Even though I have known what a phenomenal author Stephen King is, I feel as though I have always had the burning question, what is it that inspires and drives him? He was the first thing to cross...
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...The extract under the title “The Eyes of the Dragon” was written by one of the outstanding American writers in the modern literature – Stephen King, known for his huge contribution in horror fiction, compared with such names as Balzac and Dickens. The extract under the study begins with the description of a young boy called Peter destined to be a king. It comes as no surprise he had a great number of servants to take care of him, but the most tender and vigilant of all was surely his mother – Sasha. She took it for granted to bring up her child in a manner worthy for kings only. Naturally she used all her talent, all her love and all her wit to raise the heir as well-bred and smart as possible. She was the only perfect teacher for him. To the boy’s mischief she died when he was only five and couldn’t realize everything properly, but those lessons she gave him stayed in his heart for ever. They say “the child’s soul is blank as a white sheet of paper, what you write there will be kept till the end.” I guess this statement suits the text precisely and comes as the controlling idea of the whole narration. Indeed, who knows better teacher and mentor for a child than its mother? Who knows all the specks and all the sores on a young body better than the woman who gave birth to the infant? No human creature. Small wonder that mothers love their children with all their heart, no matter what kind of child it is. The child is their flesh and blood, that’s the only sufficient reason...
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...prominent French author, once said, “There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them”. This is perhaps due to the fact that many of people’s perception on monsters are skewed by prototypical stereotypes. Nonetheless, monsters have played a significant role in modern society. Whether it’s literal monsters or symbolic monsters, they tend to be a topic of interest to anyone as there seems to be an instantaneous repulsion and attraction to these monsters. Firstly, there’s the obvious fear involved because of the hazardous situation that monsters can create. Yet, there also seems to be some type of draw to these monsters at the same time. These ideas are further discussed and demonstrated in the novel “On Monsters," written by Stephen Asma. Asma perfectly illustrates the idea of the repulsion and attraction of monsters by bringing in a two examples from his life. The first one was about a little boy he encountered at the Hunterian Museum. The boy was walking along with his mother when he noticed one display case containing “tragically malformed babies” (Asma 5). Asma explains that although the boy was clearly frightened, when his mother asked if they should leave, the boy still wanted to stay and see more. The second example was about Asma’s 3 year old son and how he felt the same way as the boy...
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...Stephen F. Austin Often when individuals reflect on the history of Texas, many great names with acts of heroism come to mind. However, when asked to explain the interpretation, and accomplishments these heroes achieved, we draw a blank. One hero in particular is Stephen F. Austin. This individual has acquired the title as "Father of Texas" and yet many people don't understand the impact and importance this man was, and still is, on the state of Texas. Stephen F. Austin was born on November 3, 1793. His father, Moses Austin and mother, Mary Brown, set high expectations for him since birth. Through the years, Austin traveled from place to place due to his Fathers work and acquired knowledge of his father's business, a mining operation. At the age of ten, Austin was driven to school and ultimately graduated from college. He had spent some time working for his father and spending some time in the military. Stephen was discharged from the military as a senior level sergeant upon completion of his term. During this time in Stephens life, his father, Moses, departed to San Antonio to petition for a land grant from the Spanish territory. The land grant gave authorization for 300 families with a total of 200,000 acres to be separated amongst themselves. Before completion of the land grant, Moses Austin passed away. This left Stephen to follow his father's dreams and continue to pursue the colonization of a territory from the Spanish. Austin had a difficult time getting the land...
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...Stephen Hawking is concidered by many a scientific genius of living and still working today. Most legends are made when people die and when Stephen does die he will become a legend. Until then he is a leaving breathing genius. He hasn’t had it as easy as most but has done well combating his many struggles through life. Desoite all of these troubles Stephen Hawking has been able to rise above and has been a valuable part of the physics and cosmotology studies we have had on this planet. With all of his struggles and triumphs, Stephen Hawking has had along history and a lot of time has been dedicated to finding answers to some of the questions we ask but would take a genius to answer and research. Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, at the end of World War II. He was born in Oxford, England but his family didn’t live there originally. They moved there due to the war because it was supposedly a safer place to have a child. His father was a researcher of tropical medicine so research and studies were in his genes. His father was hoping he would follow in his footsteps but all Stephen wanted to do was be a mathmetician. Needless to say, Stephen and his family stayed in Oxford and that’s where he grew up. Stephen entered Oxford University in 1959 to study mathematics primarily. He was a very bright student in which case e didn’t have to work very hard in school. He was very social and Oxford proved to be little challenge for him. He even took up sports by joining the...
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