The book “Pet Sematary” written by Stephen King takes place in the early 1980’s. The Creed family which consists of, Louis, Rachel, Ellie, Gage and Church (Ellie’s Cat). Louis and Rachel are middle age, while Ellie is around five and Gage is about a year old. The family is from Chicago and moving to Maine because Louis is getting a job at the university of Maine. Louis is a doctor. The family is not thrilled about the move and the ride from Chicago to Maine has been understandably a rough one so far, as the story begins. When the Creed’s reach their new home they meet their neighbor Jud Crandall an old man in his eighties with a thick accent. He has a wife named Norma, who has bad arthritis. Jud and Louis become fairly good friends and his …show more content…
Reluctantly she agrees to it. As soon as they get to Chicago Ellie tells her mother about a startling dream she has had which encourages Rachel to fly back to Maine that night. She calls Jud to inform him and asks him to try and find Louis or keep an eye on him. In the meantime Louis is on his way to dig up Gage’s grave and bury him in the pet sematary. Rachel does not make it in time because of a missed flight and has rented a car to drive the rest of the way Ludlow. Louis has already buried Gage in the pet sematary. When Rachel makes it to Jud’s house she knows something is terribly wrong. As she enters the house she see’s Church covered in mud and blood as well as what she suspects to be Gage’s footprints. She makes her way upstairs towards a groaning sound and see’s Jud dead. Then she feels as if she shrinking and comes face to face with her deceased sister Zelda in the form of Gage’s body. Zelda kills Rachel. Later that morning Louis makes his way over to the house. Noticing the rental car in the driveway. When he walks in the house he see’s Jud laying on kitchen floor dead. He goes upstairs and sees Rachel in the same position as Jud, dead. Louis is slipping from sanity at this point. Gage emerges from a room with Louis’s scalpel in hand. Louis quickly jumps on the boy and after three attempts finally injects a large amount of morphine into the boy to kill him. He then gathers Rachel’s body and dumps gasoline all over the bottom floor lighting a match and flicking it over his shoulders as he leaves. Louis is on his way to the pet sematary to bury Rachel. He thinks that he waited to long with Gage and he won’t let a mistake like that happen this time. The story ends rather abruptly stating “A cold hand fell on Louis’s shoulder. Rachel’s voice was grating, full of dirt.
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
Jack then shoots Boyce because he didn’t follow Jacks orders and killed Peter’s family instead. Jack then pours gasoline all over the house and sets the old abandoned house on fire. Meanwhile, the hallucination of Peter's wife is on the brink of yelling, urging Peter to wake up. When he finally awakens, he takes Anne out of the burning house where she is reunited with her daughter. Boyce traps Jack in the fire by pouring gasoline on him before dying.
After April and Roger search desperately for Cheryl, they look for several weeks, and have no idea where she has gone. One night Cheryl’s friend Nancy calls April, and explains that she was leaving with her, but she had left suddenly and believes she is going to do something bad. April remembers that Cheryl told her how their mother committed suicide, by jumping off the Louis Bridge. When they arrive at the bridge a group of people say they saw a women jumped off and commit suicide about five minutes before they arrived.
The author of Arcadia, Tom Stoppard, uses a lot of irony and incorporates a web of relationships and coincidences into his plays that can get a bit confusing, especially if you are not familiar with the things that he makes reference to. In the play, on page thirteen, Lady Croom, Thomasina's mother, compares Mr. Noakes' landscape style to that of Ann Radcliffe's and Horace Walpole's imagery, both of which were Gothic novelists of the eighteenth century. The author's purpose in including this bit is interesting, especially if you are familiar with the novels he refers to. Here's some help:
In Daniel Wallace’s novel, Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions and Tim Burton’s film, Big Fish, the relationship between the dying protagonist, Edward Bloom and his estranged son, William Bloom, is centrally to the story in both the novel and film. Like many fathers in today's society, Edward Bloom wishes to leave his son with something to remember him by after he is dead. It is for this reason the many adventures of Edward Bloom are deeply interwoven into the core of all the various stories Edward tells to mystify his son with as a child. Despite the many issues father and son have in their tense relationship as adults, Daniel Wallace and Tim Burton’s adaptation of Wallace’s novel focalizes on the strained relationship between Edward Bloom and William Bloom. In both Wallace’s novel and Burton’s film, they effectively portray how the relationship between Edward Bloom and William Bloom is filled with bitter resentment and indifference towards each other. Only with William’s attempt to finally reconcile with his dying father and navigating through his father fantastical fables does those established feelings of apathy and dislike begin to wane. With Burton’s craftily brilliant reconstruction of Wallace’s story does the stories of Edward Bloom and his son blossom onto screen.
More than ever children want to feel safe and excepted; Take a moment and think what makes a person feel safe. Answers will vary based upon circumstances. However, when it comes to children with peculiar differences where do they go to feel safe? The novel, Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs uses the portal the peculiar children live in as symbolism by making it represent safety and home.
Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred is categorized as science fiction because of the existence of time travel. However, the novel does not center on the schematics of this type of journey. Instead, the novel deals with the relationships forged between a Los Angeles woman from the 20th century, and slaves from the 19th century. Therefore, the mechanism of time travel allows the author a sort of freedom when writing this "slavery narrative" apart from her counterparts. Butler is able to judge the slavery from the point of view of a truly "free" black woman, as opposed to an enslaved one describing memories.
Strange things began to happen the next couple days. First, Joey was in the living room of Grandma’s house making a jig saw puzzle. He heard the sound of a horses hooves walking slowly on the street then the sound stopped in front of the house and heard someone put something in Grandma’s mail box. Joey heard the horse walk away and a little while later Grandma’s mailbox blew up. Next, Ms. Wilcox’s outhouse was destroyed by a cherry bomb. Then, a dead mouse was found floating in the bottle of milk that was delivered to the front
...reaches the clearing, he begins to gulp the water and has hallucinations that contain conversations with Aunt Clara and a rabbit. When George finally finds Lennie he reassures him that everything will be okay. At first Lennie is a bit confused, but asks George to recite their dream yet again. Before telling the story of their unique relationship, George tells Lennie to turn around and face the river. George begins to tell Lennie that their friendship is unique because they are there for another. He also tells him of their dream farm. Lennie becomes comfortable and hopeful suggesting they leave now. George agrees, raises the gun, and pulls the trigger. Shortly after, the lynch mob arrives only to find that George has already killed Lennie. In the ending moments of the novel, Carlson and Curly are confused by the special friendship that Slim and George have attained.
Mays, Kelly J. ""Puppy"" The Norton Introduction to Literature. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2013. N. pag. Print.
The Dark Tower – Stephen King The Dark Tower is a series of stories that follow the main character, Roland "The Last Gunslinger", as he travels across a harsh desert on a mission to find the "man in black". His mission is to make it safely to the Tower in order to save himself and the very existence of the universe. The entire series revolves around the tower and how essential it is. The tower is a central point where different planes of existence merge and if Roland doesn't make it there before it gets destroyed then everything else will be destroyed along with it.
The beginning of this book puzzles the reader. It doesn't clearly state the setting and plot in the first chapter; it almost leaves the mood open to how the reader interprets it. In the romance story The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks, the plot then shifts from a nursing home to a small town -- New Bern, North Carolina. It baffles the reader so much that it urges one to read on. The romance of Noah and Allie in this book is so deep and complex that it will bring a tear to the eye of any reader.
The stories setting takes place in Western Colorado. In Western Colorado in a home of a retired nurse named Annie is where the whole story takes place. Annie's home is a two story log cabin out in the middle of nowhere. The closest neighbors are miles away. It takes place in the middle of winter snow storms.
The novel The Maze Runner by James Dashner begins with a teenage boy waking up in an elevator who has no memory of the past, only that his name is Thomas. When the doors of the elevator open up he is pulled into a humongous square surrounding, called the Glade, by a group of teenage boys. The boys in the Glade refer to themselves as the ‘Gladers’. Thomas learns that the Gladers have lived in there for two years and that the Glade is located in the center of a maze which contains a labyrinth of high walls that move during the night and deadly creatures called grievers. The Glade is led by two boys, Alby and Newt; they both maintain order in the Glade by enforcing strict rules and jobs that keep the Gladers busy. A day after Thomas’ arrival an unknown girl arrives in the Glade. This shocks everyone because the Gladers only receive a new person every month, never within the same week. This also shocks everyone because she was the only girl in a maze full of boys. The girl also gives a message that everything is going to change and that she is the last one ever. Right after her message she immediately falls into a coma. The arrival of the girl causes many things to go chaotic including the sun seizing to rise, the Gladers stop receiving supplies from the creators of the maze, and the doors of the Glade that protect the Gladers from the grievers at night stop closing. When the girl, Teresa wakes up she informs Thomas that they both knew each other in the past and that the maze was a code. Thomas and the people who run around the maze to map out the labyrinth, the runners, look through the archives of the maps and find out the code. Then the leader of the runners, Minho, figures out that the cliff they thought was just a cliff was actua...
For my book I chose to read The Body by Stephen King. This novel is about four young boys taking a journey to find a body somewhere in the woods that is at the county line. This story is about more than just four boys going on an adventure its about them becoming closer to each other and learning real life lessons along the way. The four boys are all going into their first year of middle school so this is a time in their life when they learn things that will help them in life.