R.L. Stine is mainly known for his series of horror books for children and teens. In 1995 he decided to write his first adult horror book, Superstitious, which is oddly similar to his teen book, Killer’s Kiss. They share similar plots, characters and both deal with murder and deceit. However, they drastically differ in content rating. Killer’s kiss is a pg 13 book while Superstitious is more rated R due to sexual content and extremely gruesome murders. Sara, a college student, is the leading lady in Superstitious. She meets Liam, a tall, Irish and an extremely superstitious college professor with wavy brown hair. He introduces her to some of his closest friends and his sister Margaret, who he also lives with. They begin …show more content…
He hurried his girlfriend, Delia Easton, out the door so she and his other girlfriend, Karina Frye, don't run into each other. Delia kisses him on the cheek, leaving a purple lip print that Vincent quickly wipes away. Karina finally arrives, but leaves in anger when she sees a smudge of purple lipstick on his cheek automatically knowing who it belongs to.The next day at school Delia and her friends, Brit and Greg, talk about the Conklin award. An award that her and Karina competing for to get into college. We then learn that the two have been competing against each other all their lives. The group’s conversation is cut short when Karina shows up and attacks Karina, telling her that she'll never have Vincent. When the showcase for the Conklin award comes around, Delia finds her guitar and her fashion designs for the competition completely destroyed. She immediately blames it on a clueless Karina. A few days later, everyone is at an abandoned house celebrating Vincent's birthday. Except Delia. She soon stumbles in with a bruised wrist and a ripped dress. She blames Karina for tying her to her bed and leaving her there. Everyone starts to believe Delia remembering that Karina showed up to the party late. Karina tries to explain her innocence but leaves when she realizes that everyone thinks she's going crazy. The next day when Delia and her friends go to the abandoned
Being said so, parts in the book where violence such as wolf attacks, gunshots, and potential homicide is clearly depicted through simple yet powerful vocabulary. The book also contains parts about kissing and a sexual act which was depicted through a fade-to-black style. Although the book contains such scenes, the depth of the words that were used to elaborate a particular scene was not too strong and was in fact in a moderate level. The book can therefore still be suitable for young readers. At the same time, the characters within the book are also of the same age range which made it easy to understand and relate to the story as it progresses and
Challenges and Trials: Quentin and his friends face a big bump when having to decide whether or not they are going to have to miss graduation to find Margo
They tell her that they have found him but only a part of him. His jaw bone. This make Olivia trave back to her home town Medford. Terry’s family are having his funural so on her way there she decied to stop by her grandmothers old house. In the car she also decied that it would be a good idea to not tell any about who she really was.Olivia happens to meet a woman named Nora that lives next door and she is told that Nora was her grandmothers best friend. At this point Nora tells Olivia lots of information about her family and ends up asking her to take her to Terry’s feneral. This is a preferct cover for her. With being aroud family member that she doesn’t know or have been around makes it even harder to keep her past a sercret. After seeing and hearing lots of things from many different people Olivia wants to solve her perents murders. Along the way after she moves into her grandmother old house she picks up an frien named Duncan and the grow closer and
They both throw in all different types of issues and past arguments that have never been resolved. Brooke attacks Gary for never taking her to the ballet, for playing too many video games, and for the lack of novelty in their relationship. She says “forget the ballet, we never go anywhere together.” She wants to have less predictability and more time to experience new things. When he reminds her that they went to a football game recently, she screams at him that she did not even want to go. She feels as though he is always controlling what they do, and that she always has to give up her own wants to please him. Instead of compromising and participating in activities that they both want to do, she feels that they always do whatever he wants. She tells him “I did that for you, how do you show up for me?” However, Gary had no idea that she felt this way because she never stands up to him and tells him. Her passive nature made it so she never shared her feelings with him in order to smooth away any conflict. This just made her bottle everything up until she eventually
Throughout the rugged and cruel terrain of the Italian race, Dave moves his way up through the crowd of racers to meet up with the Cinzanos. Once Dave meets up with the Cinzanos during the race, his dreams are fulfill making him immensely happy which is seen on his, gigantic crescent shaped smile. The Cinzanos seem as a pleasant and friendly group allowing Dave to go ahead of them, until they catch back up to him only to shift the gears of his bike. Showing that the Cinzanos do not want another member of their group, but Dave just thinks they are giving him a hard time until they force him of the terrain. The look in Dave’s eyes after the forceful and rude act of running him off the terrain shows that he has a clearer view of life. After the horrendous incident during the Italian race, Dave changes. He stops acting Italian and starts acting like a cutter. He does this because he learns that everything isn’t what it appears to be and realizes that he should be proud to be a cutter, and that is why he tells Katie who he actually is even though he knows it will end
Her husband walks into the house and is immediately looking for a confrontation. It is throughout this confrontation that the exploitative and abusive nature of Delia and Syke’s relationship becomes clear. Syke taunts her with his bullwhip, rolls around laughing in mirth at her fear, and continuously kicks the piles of clothing she is working on. Syke, overbearing and dominating, paints a startling portrait of sexist masculinity. He stands in clear contrast to the ways in which Delia is described in his presence: her “thin, stooped shoulders” sag deeper and deeper.
Matty and Victoria are partners throughout the senior trip, and it is very obvious that Jenna has an issue with Matty's new girl. Victoria pesters with Sadie and Jenna, and Sadie retaliates making her lose her privelage to the senior trip. While the seniors are on there way to Northern California, Sadie stumbles on Victoria's real name and her secret room full of image of Matty, Jenna, Sadie, and all the other friends. Sadie then drives to the cabins they are taying at and needs the aid of Jenna to locate and convince Matty of this manipulative liar. They find them both in a cabin that Victoria claims i her rich uncle's, but while Jenna rantss on how she new ffrom the start how Victoria is not who she says she is; Victoria comes out saying
Her betrayal to Val as a result of the murders develops her as being easily moldable and manipulated by things she hears, showing that she can’t develop her own opinions. Valerie's brother throughout the story is a very strong character and an amazing little brother , even though he is kind of caught in the middle of a very difficult time in his home life. He is always nice to Val and puts up with a lot of problems that isn’t even his fault, almost seeming oblivious to what is going on . However this all changes when their parents report his sister missing after she went on a walk causing him to miss soccer tryouts, he finally snaps and blows up at his family saying, “You’re impossible. I’m sick of my life always having to revolve around yours.” He stomped back into his room and slammed the door shut. “ (pg 355). He then goes on to go and live with his father and his mistress and when Val finally sees him again he had undergone a lot of physical changes in his appearance; “He’d cut his hair to match the rest of the soccer players and was wearing a pair of glasses that completed a clean-cut look for ahim that I’d never imagined. He didn’t speak to me much, except to give reports on how Dad and Briley were doing when Mom wasn’t around.” (pg 357).Frankie keeps his feelings towards his family bottled up and acts unaware to the problems
R.L. Stine is arguably one of the best horror fiction writers of all time. With his use of vivid imagination and lack of real-life experiences, Stine was still able to create works of horror that thrilled audiences after every read. Stine receives criticism on his work daily, with it being negative or positive. Robert is a very diverse writer, with many branches of different genres he writes about. From it being humor, all the way to horror, Stine never seems to fail to captivate his audience on any of his pieces of literature.
calling. Sonny moves in with Isabel and he realizes that he is actually seen as a bother because of
The younger sister cannot have a relationship with a man until her older sister does remain the same in both the play and the film. In the play, Lucentio wants to marry Bianca and pretends to be her tutor so he can spend more time with her. He pays Petruchio to wed Bianca’s sister, Kate, so he can marry Bianca. Cameron acts as Bianca’s French tutor to gain more face time with her. He convinces Joey Donner to pay Patrick to date Kat. Patrick is nice to Kat throughout the movie and tries to win her back after she finds out that he was paid to go out with her. Kate never finds out that Petruchio was paid to marry her. Petruchio and Patrick both use deceitful tactics in order to be with their respective loves. They disguise their true feelings and motives for being with their girl. Both Kat and Katherine fall in love with the man who was paid to be with her. The fact that they fell in love is meant to show how they were tamed. Kate gives a speech about how she understands how she should be subordinate to her husband. Petruchio has tamed her bec...
Stephen King is known as one of the greatest horror and gothic writers of our time. The reason for this is his ability to fuse the gothic elements created by stories such as Dracula or Frankenstein and todays horror. King has written hundreds of short stories but two in-particular “The Night Flier” and “Popsy” show his unique ability to combined gothic elements from the old literature with realistic settings and people of our era. One of his greater talents is being able to use gothic element like vampires and make us see them in a different light. Kings unique way of writing with his old gothic ideals, new horror ideas, and use of realistic settings help to put a new spin on what we conceive as gothic story.
He called the cops but his mom didn't press any charges even though she went the hospital. Although she did break up with Bear Rafe and Georgina were both glad of the decision that her mom makes but the didn't say it. So then he has to have meeting with his mom and the principal he said that he was expelled from his school for the rest of the school year, although his English teacher was impressed by his art skills that she suggested an art school. His mom and Rafe took the suggestion and for the first time he’s excited for school.
On the other hand, Gary is a little selfish and never takes in consideration what Brooke likes and feels passion for. One of the early scenes in the movie describes what she is feeling and what take them to the weakening of the relationship. First, when she tell him that she always wanted to go to the ballet but Gary never took her because he said it is boring. Also, he never gave her flowers because he thought she didn’t like flowers based on a comment she said when they met. Finally, Brooke asks Gary to buy twelve lemons to make a decoration for a dinner they were going to have with their families, but he only bought three lemons. That night, after the dinner conclude, they get into an argument about Gary’s egoism, and she end up telling him that she wanted to break up with him because he didn’t understand the message that she was sending, and she only wanted him to commit to their
Following their high-school graduation, Jade is hosting an end of high school celebration. At the party, David arrives and notices none of their classmates have shown up. He explains to Jade there is another party going on. He calls the police and effectively shuts it down. Soon after, everyone begins to arrive and has an outstanding night. Near the end, Jade’s father makes a toast.