The stand was written by Stephen king in 1978, and published in september 1978. The book was published by Doubleday. The Stand consists of 823 pages. The Stand is a post-apocalyptic horror/fantasy novel. It marks the first appearance of Randall Flagg. The book was not written as a first hand account of event in history. The book is written as a fictionalized account of events in history. This book is different of writing because the writings of the time period. The writings of the time period were mostly oems about what was going on. The stand is a fictional book about what happened before and during the war. The book has fictional characters that go through a post-apocalyptic horror/fantasy story. The story is written in 3rd person
There’s always been the argument of “Which is better?” when it comes to book versus movie. In the case of To Kill A Mockingbird, in my opinion, the movie lacks certain details needed to really see some of the themes Harper Lee is trying to get across. The movie leaves out some important characters. It also leaves out many certain events that are significant to the character development of Scout and Jem. These things, I believe are crucial to the story and message of To Kill A
In the novel 11/22/63, Stephen King uses settings to describe a vivid atmosphere for the reader. As Jake travels throughout the novel, King brings life to the setting by taking Jake through a muggy Derry, a fictional town in Maine King happens to use in his other novels, as well as showing the characteristics of the citizens in Jodie, Texas where he experiences love and romance. Derry is used to portray a deeper grimmer city in Maine that King has referred to before and doing so in this novel to show the extant of uninviting scene that King portrays for us.
After reading an essay, ‘On Writing’ by Stephen King, I was highly interested in King’s opinion about the necessity of reading and writing frequently in order to become a good writer. In King’s essay he talks about how he does not read to study and that he simply reads just to read; however, King does point out that though he is not reading to study there is still a learning process happening with everything he reads. “Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.” (King) Why does King have this opinion about books?
Before I began to read this book, I had an idea about Mount Everest and that it took great skill and determination to conquer. I didn’t know anything about the author or about the story that was going to take place during the book. I haven’t read anything about mountain climbing or anything adventurous like this before. I did enjoy reading this book, it was very interesting and I thoroughly liked to keep reading it. I just liked the adventure part of the book and that is what kept me to read the book and finish it. I thought that the purpose of this book was to be a smooth sailing trip up Mount Everest, but that wasn’t the case. This was an entertaining, but serious story and the title just explained that the air would’ve been thinner than at sea level. The opening lines of the book just explain that they are on the trip and at the summit of Everest, then the story unfolds. This book was difficult to read because there was so many events happening and people were dying and it was hard to keep track of who was alive and dead during the book. I had a hard time understanding everything completely because of this. I thought that this book was going to be a little confusing at the start, but it turned out to be really interesting and action packed. Some of the reading wasn’t interesting and there were lots of details in small things, but other than that I thought that the book was better than I expected it to be.
Only Stephen King could write such a spellbinding tale of a bunch of boys doing nothing but walking.
No one can be trusted. In Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, the ambivalent nature of the novella causes suspicion of the sanity of his narrator, the Governess. The characters of the Governess, the children, and the apparitions, as villains and victims, cannot be told apart. Henry James impeccably makes use of ambiguity to create mystery and suspense through the dubiety roles of his main characters and the liability of the narrator.
Many people think that reading more can help them to think and develop before writing something. Others might think that they don’t need to read and or write that it can really help them to brainstorm things a lot quicker and to develop their own ideas immediately (right away). The author’s purpose of Stephen King’s essay, Reading to Write, is to understand the concepts, strategies and understandings of how to always read first and then start something. The importance of this essay is to understand and comprehend our reading and writing skills by brainstorming our ideas and thoughts a lot quicker. In other words, we must always try to read first before we can brainstorm some ideas and to think before we write something. There are many reasons why I chose Stephen King’s essay, Reading to Write, by many ways that reading can help you to comprehend, writing, can help you to evaluate and summarize things after reading a passage, if you read, it can help you to write things better and as you read, it can help you to think and evaluate of what to write about.
The book I read for this reflective essay is called The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. This novel is an intriguing tale of gruesome murder, friendly specters, an unknown creature, a desire for unexplainable knowledge, and the Freedom of the Graveyard. One night, a man was walking about the house, his knife dripping wet. He had already killed the parents and the oldest child. He only had the baby to take care of. He approached the crib. He saw the shape of the child. He raised his knife, aiming at the chest. Suddenly, he lowered it. There was no child, just a teddy bear. He hadn’t realized the baby had snuck out of the house, and had crawled up to the graveyard. The man, known as Jack, smelled the child, and followed the scent into the graveyard.
The novella, The Body, written by Stephen King is quintessential for portraying the overarching coming of age theme, however within this theme a more specific theme of innocence vs. experience is present. This theme can be seen within the book’s plot, symbols, and Chris Chamber’s character. Taking a look at the historical time period of when this novella was written, and taking a look at the biographical history of Stephen King himself helps the reader to understand why this particular approach to the theme was chosen. The novella itself travels with four young boys as they begin their journey in search of a dead body, and along the way they not only discover the cruelty of the real world, but they also face the cruelty that can be see within
1) “The Hours”, based on the novel written by Michael Cunningham, is more than a biographical movie about Virginia Woolf. How can you discribe the importance and co- relation between the three female main characters: Virginia, Laura Brown and Clarissa Vaughan?
Have you ever wondered do you really know your grandparents? Grand Stand-In the author Kevin Wilson is a writer from Sewanee, Tennessee, a father of 2, and a husband. “The short story started from a television show” (Wilson, Q and A). The Grand Stand- In is about the life of a fifty-six-year-old women who has never married or started a family. For this reason, she worked as a grandmother for children who had lost theirs at a young age or want them to be active in their life. She works with five families that she loves, but have to learn to be able to disconnect from. Working for the company Grand Stand-In is and odd job indeed, but the reader finds out just how strange it is as it revealed that not only grandmothers but also grandfathers and granddaughters are employed there. Some families pay to
‘The Catcher in the Rye’ Analysis ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ by J.D. Salinger in 1951 is considered an American classic. It tells the relatable story of a teenager who comes to terms with himself and his mental complications. The narrator of the story, Holden Caulfield, begins this flashback styled book on the night before he left his former school, Pencey Prep, after being kicked out for inadequate grades. He leaves two days earlier than his supposed date of departure and Over the course of the book readers learn more and more about Holden and realize he is depressed, curious, deceitful, and judgmental. Clues as to what makes Holden the way he is are given sparingly and eventually J.D. Salinger did an effective job of creating a unique voice for his characters.
Divergent is set in a futuristic Chicago were everyone is separated into 5 sections of Chicago. Throughout the story the characters take trips to the Ferris Wheel of Navy Prier, the Hancock building, the Willis (formally Sears) Tower, and Millennium Park.
Comics and comic book films have been an immense cultural force for decades, in both niche comic book culture and the wider public. Comic book heroes, and especially superheros have become ubiquitous in American entertainment and consumerism. No work, however, did more to subvert comic book conventions then Allen Moore's and Dave Gibbon's Watchmen. An epic of the genre, it challenged both the constructs and assumptions of the genre, and critiqued American culture and politics. The novel takes place during the Cold War, at a time when nuclear disaster is inevitable. Because of this the themes of the book resonated with the culture in 1987, however, when the film adaptation was released in 2009, the Cold War was long over, and nuclear war was no longer a significant fear in America. Instead, terrorism had become the biggest threat to natural security. With 9/11 just eight years past, and in the midst of the War on Terror, America's fears had shifted from international total destruction to covert acts of terrorism on American soil. This shift effected both how the culture viewed tragedy and villians. In the film adaption of Watchmen, the changes made
Film Analysis - The Notebook Introduction The film is portrayed in the past and present scenario setting. It is based on a young couple’s love and passion for one another, but are unexpectedly separated due to the disapproval of the teen girl parents and the social differences in their life. At the start of the movie, it displays a nursing home style setting with an elderly man named Duke (James Garner), reading to an elderly woman named Mrs. Hamilton (Gena Rowlands), whose memory is inevitably deteriorating. The story he reads to her is a love story about two teenagers named Allie (Rachel McAdams) and Noah (Ryan Gosling), that met in the 1940’s at a carnival in Seabrook Island, South Carolina.