...Stephen King is famous for multiple novels such as, Carrie which turned into a great/4 movie, The Shining, Under The Dome. These novels lead to fame and fortune. It was not always easy. Carrie, King’s first novel was rejected 30 times. The shining was what helped lead him to most of his fame. Under the dome was a success turning into a TV show. As a matter of fact, Carrie, King’s first novel took 30 rejections to sell over 30,000 copies. At first King wasn’t going to finish the novel but his wife, Tabitha found the manuscript and forced King to finish it. Thanks to Tabitha, shortly after the novel was written it was made into a film. This novel and movie was about a girl that had telekinetic powers and used them to get revenge on...
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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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...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 my...
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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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...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 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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...ideas. For example, F Scott Fitzgerald and Stephen King who were notorious addicts often wrote under the influence or their addictions and often incorporated that into their writing or made connections with their characters with it. Authors who are addicts use their writing in many ways to reveal their thoughts and feelings of their addictions. Fitzgerald is an example...
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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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...mind that retains those fears and thoughts society deems to be negative and unacceptable. Instead, we take in various types of violent and horrific media that feature unrealistic and unnatural fears to scare us, but why? Well, let’s take the iconic psychological horror film The Shining by Stanley Kubrick as an example of the horror genre. The movie weaves a story of a man named Jack, his wife, and their child spending the winter looking after a remotely located resort. Everything goes well for a while*, but eventually Jack goes crazy with cabin fever and goes on a rampage, trying to kill both his wife and son. After a nail-biting chase through the snow covered hedge maze both the wife and son get away safely while Jack, fully...
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...heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk” (Stephen King). Stephen King: father, husband, most famous horror writer of all time. With many successful books, Stephen King has quickly made himself the most renowned author of the horror genre and can prove it from the countless awards he has received like the British Fantasy Award, Edgar Grand Master Award, and Goodreads Choice Awards Best Fiction. Because so many of his books are successful, many of them have been adapted into mini series on television or even into movies. Most notably the screen adaptations for The Shining (1980) and It (1990 and 2017) are what most people immediately think about....
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...Stephen King, a mastermind of the horror genre has taken the literature and film industry by storm from hit movies such as “The Shining” and successful novels such as “Carrie”. Stephen King has continuously illustrated that when it comes to horror there isn’t only one way to present a horrific story. In Stephen King’s essay “Why We Crave Horror Movies” he presents several rational explanations about why we love horror movies, even though it puts a peculiar fear in viewers. King utilizes persuasive techniques such as pathos and logos, as well as comparisons to real life events to draw connections between horror and other areas of entertainment which in the end illustrates why movie enthusiasts crave horror. Stephen King, born in Portland, Maine, has had to deal with change throughout his lifetime. As a young child his father, Donald King, departed the family leaving young King, brother David, and his mother Nellie Ruth behind. Soon after the departure they moved to Connecticut only to return to Maine. A traumatic event, only claimed to be true by King’s family, occurred involving a gruesome death of his friend. King doesn’t recall the train accident but it can be seen that witnessing something this gruesome can bring out a living horror in an individual. This event could be what drives...
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...the most important tools that an individual can have. Ultimately, with the way literature uses up the creativity side of the brain, it truly helps expand our imagination. From a very young age, many of us were introduced to books with big pictures and little words. These simple little books were meant to teach us the names of colours, the alphabet and what noise animals made. While continuing to grow older, individuals starts to explore more genres of literature to find what they enjoy. For example, in the last couple years of high school, I have really gotten into the horror/mystery genres of book which is the reason I chose The Shining as my ISU novel. The fact that I had read The Shining before watching the film, had made me see the characters in the film differently than I had imagined while I was reading the book. In other words, like Stephen had said during our book talks, when we read about characters in a novel, we create our own image of them and when the movie of the book comes out, we usually do not see the characters the way we had created, but we see the way the director of...
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...one’s veins that creates a nerve racking feeling or the noises that emits from the speakers that surrounds a viewer in a pitch black theater that put one on edge. If that’s the type of feeling a viewer gets from watching a horror movie that contains countless violence, why continue that rotation of watching violence play out, what could one benefit from it. Maybe, just maybe, people continuously view horror movies to demonstrate a point to themselves that all the violence that plays out is something that they themselves would never be a part of and that deep down their virtuous and not evil. One film that comes to mind when it comes to violence and the tug between virtuous and evil is that thriller, “The Shining” directed by Stanley Kubrick based off the novel by Stephen King of the identical name. The film in terms of the novel while has correlations have copious dissimilarities, from the character’s personalities to their backgrounds and even how the violence that plays out in one and the other, these alterations that play out in the film alters the basis that is portrayed in the novel....
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...pick it up at a local bookstore or library, open the cover, and enjoy. Autobiography/Memoir Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X Black Boy by Richard Wright The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank Having Our Say by Sarah L. and Elizabeth Delany The Heroic Slave by Frederick Douglass I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing by Maya Angelou Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Coming of Age The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros A Separate Peace by John Knowles Detective/Thriller Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries The “A is for…” series by Sue Grafton The Client by John Grisham Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Shining by Stephen King Watcher by Dean R. Koontz Fantasy The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony Any Harry Potter book by J.K. Rowling Historical/Social Issues The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Lord of the Flies by William Golding Of Mice and Men and The Grapes ofWrath by John Steinbeck Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd White Teeth by Zadie Smith Inspirational/Spiritual Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom The Purpose-Driven Life:...
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...Stephen King: Two Books, One Story In 1974, the world was first introduced to Stephen King through the publication of Carrie. Since then, King has released over fifty-four novels, short stories and essays (King, Written Works). His themes are vast and touch such subjects as aliens, telekinesis, life in prison, trucks coming to life, and the end of the world. In 1999, a car accident almost ended Stephen King’s life. After his recovery, he published five novels that were received with poor sales and unkind reviews. When Under the Dome was released in 2009, it showed that Stephen King was returning to a formula that worked so well for him in a previous book called The Stand. To understand these two books, one must first understand their author. Stephen King was born September 21, 1947. His father abandoned his mother, older brother, and himself when he was two (King, Writing 3). His mother, Ruth took a succession of poorly paid menial jobs, leaving her sons in the care of various relatives. Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and then Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. He attended college at the University of Maine, and that is where he met his wife Tabitha, who was also a student. In 1970, he graduated from the University of Maine at Orono with a B.A. in English, and his first child was born. Stephen worked as a high school English teacher for a few years in Maine while he started writing his first novel Carrie. Carrie was an instant hit and an overnight...
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