The Man Who Loved Flowers - Short Essay
Questions to the short story “The Man Who Loved Flowers” by Stephen King
1. Describe the setting and atmosphere.
The story takes place in May 1963. The summer is just around the corner and everybody is smiling to the man in the gray suit because he exudes, he is hopeless in love with the girl Norma. After he bought the tea roses for Norma, the afternoon turns to evening and the bright atmosphere is replaced by darkness and gloomy cityscape when he makes his way to he’s loving Norma.
2. Characterize the young man
His hair was dark and cut short. His complexion was fair, his eyes a light blue. Not an extraordinary face, but he was beautiful. When he takes his hammer from his coat pocket and stats smashing her, he see he’s reel identity, the series-killer from the radio.
3. What does the other characters think of the young man, and how do we learn about it?
4. What news are we told on the radio, and what effect does it have on us as readers?
It poured out bad news, a hammer murderer was still on the loos.
5. Who is Norma?
She is the woman the character buy flowers.
6. How does King develop suspense in the story, and what element of surprise is there?
7. Give your interpretation of the statement ”His name was love”
8. Theme and message?
9. Compare it to “The Boogeyman – can you find similaties between the two stories?
10. Compare Stephen King’s short stories to Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart and consider how horror is created in the two stories (are there
1. Describe the setting and atmosphere.
The story takes place in May 1963. The summer is just around the corner and everybody is smiling to the man in the gray suit because he exudes, he is hopeless in love with the girl Norma. After he bought the tea roses for Norma, the afternoon turns to evening and the bright atmosphere is replaced by darkness and gloomy cityscape when he makes his way to he’s loving Norma.
2. Characterize the young man
His hair was dark and cut short. His complexion was fair, his eyes a light blue. Not an extraordinary face, but he was beautiful. When he takes his hammer from his coat pocket and stats smashing her, he see he’s reel identity, the series-killer from the radio.
3. What does the other characters think of the young man, and how do we learn about it?
4. What news are we told on the radio, and what effect does it have on us as readers?
It poured out bad news, a hammer murderer was still on the loos.
5. Who is Norma?
She is the woman the character buy flowers.
6. How does King develop suspense in the story, and what element of surprise is there?
7. Give your interpretation of the statement ”His name was love”
8. Theme and message?
9. Compare it to “The Boogeyman – can you find similaties between the two stories?
10. Compare Stephen King’s short stories to Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart and consider how horror is created in the two stories (are there