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    Stephen King. Worthy or Not? Do you think Stephen King is a worthy author? Many people will have different opinions about this topic but in my opinion‚ he is a worthy author! Stephen King is a great author. Stephen King is one of the best selling authors of all time. In the 40 years since his first novel‚ Carrie‚ he has published‚ more than 50 books‚ all of them international bestsellers. King has always been clear about the inspiration he has drawn from respected literary forebears. King’s work

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    Notes Link: http://www.trcb.com/onlinebooks/leisure/horror-literature--life-after-stephen-king-1317.htm  It’s common knowledge that Stephen King took a literary subgenre in the early eighties and turned it into a mainstream literary genre  Bestsellers like Shinning‚ Carrie‚ Blood and Smoke and even Bag of Bones (which was the first book in the genre to be given in depth analysis by literary critics worldwide) propelled horror literature to a class of its own‚ away from the scorned subgenre

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    Gothic Elements in the Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe is known as the Father of the Gothic. He utilized Gothicism in his short stories such as‚ ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and ‘Ligeia.’ Poe has written numerous literary masterpieces that have focused on the Gothic. Not only have his works been focused on the Gothic‚ but his life had somewhat of a Gothic theme. Through love‚ death‚ and depression‚ Poe’s life had an impact on the way he wrote‚ which is evident through in

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    Every great story has at least one theme that is identifiable.There are so many amazing themes out there that it’s hard for the author to just pick one. Well‚ in Stephen King’s IT‚ he expresses a few different themes‚ including; ’Grownups are the enemy’‚ expressing that theme by showing characters interacting with one another and the adults‚ ’There’s always a way to fix the problem’ by showing the characters‚ yet again‚ working together to kill the evil entity‚ and ’Leave the past behind‚ but never

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    Analysis of the Shining In the ShiningStephen King’s idea was to show the reader that they don’t have to go looking in dark alleys for terrible monsters or demonic creatures‚ because in every human there is a chance for monsters to develop in ones mind. He also points out that a weak mind plus psychological problems‚ can allow exterior pressures to force you to think or do certain actions. In this novel the Torrance family settles in an isolated Colorado hotel‚ the Overlook. Jack Torrance‚

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    Desperation‚ a recent Stephen King novel‚ is not just a book‚ but an experience that leaves the reader frightened‚ paranoid‚ and questioning his moral beliefs. Picture‚ if you will‚ a lone‚ crazed Nevada policeman who pulls over vehicles on a lonely desert highway and forcefully takes away their occupants. Whichever of them he doesn’t kill immediately‚ he locks up in the jail of the small desolate town of Desperation. Among those captured are the vacationing Carver family‚ whose RV is sabotaged on

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    Stephen King is one of the most famous writers of the horror‚ science fiction‚ supernatural fiction‚ and suspense genre. Stephen King was born on September 21‚ 1947. He is still alive to this day and is 68 years old. When King was young‚ he was very involved in school extra-curricular activities. These activities included participating in school politics and also writing a weekly column for the school newspaper. After high school‚ King went to college at the University of Maine in 1970. He graduated

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    Shadow Land “All cruelty springs from weakness” (Lucius Annaeus Seneca). So is true for Stephen King’s character Jack Torrence in The Shining. Jack’s character is weak and flawed and because of this he is unsuccessful at being strong. On the other hand‚ Danny‚ Jack’s son‚ is very innocent but very strong in character‚ which helps him to defeat the evil that lives in the Overlook hotel. Although there natures are very different‚ they both have many of the same traits‚ such as empathy‚ courage

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    his display of lively visuals in film‚ and his adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining is an excellent example of his creativity when it comes to cinema. However‚ Kubrick’s film opposes to many of King’s original ideas in his novel. While they both exhibit forms of horror‚ they respectively present their themes differently(different

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    Chronological/Timeline: Stephen King (Starla) “They’re all gonna laugh at you” Hello my name is Stephen Edwin King‚ I was born in Portland‚ Maine 1947 September 21. My parents married in 1939 July 23‚ and I have an older brother‚ David. My parents divorced when I was just a toddler. I spent a few years of my life going between Indiana and Connecticut until I started living with my mom. I went to Lisbon falls high school‚ and the to the university of Maine. I made my first short story that was

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