Superstitious
R.L. Stine who is one of America’s best-selling authors and the devilish creator of the Fear Street and Goosebumps series of horror stories for kids. Stine is who wrote the book I read, but he came back with a book for the older generation. All of Stines ideas in his books are suggested from real life. Most of his ideas came from his imagination and his memory. He now lives in New York City with his wife Jane, and teenage son, Matthew.
The story took place on a small Pennsylvania College campus. Numerous of murders had taken place. Every murder was much more gruesome than the first. The detectives didn't know what had happened. The victims looked like an out of control animal rather than a human killed them.
One of the main characters in this was Sara Morgan. She had just moved to Pennsylvania or school. Everything was going just fine until she met a professor named Liam O'Connor; he was another main character. Liam had a dashing romantic figure with a Irish accent, good looks, sweet charm, and a host of Old World superstitious-all of which dazzled Sara. Plunging headlong into a sudden love affair, Sara barely had time to notice the horrible events taking place on the campus. Liam was extremely close to his sister Margaret. A little too close that is. Sara and Liam soon got married after a couple of dates. Everyone said it was strange, yet, too soon for him or her. But she claimed she was in love with him.
She started receiving crank phone calls, warning her to stay away from Liam. Then she received two bloody rabbit feet in the mail saying " If you’re going to marry Liam, you’re gonna need all the luck you can get." That scared her to death. When she told Liam about it, he acted like he didn’t care. Instead he blew all up in her face because she left out the front door and came in through the back door. Lately his superstitions had been getting out of hand. And he had been getting real mad at Sara. On their wedding night they made love by the light of sixteen candles, which was one of his superstitions. They were going on, non-stop. Then he whispered in her ear that he wanted to impregnate her. She accepted the offer without really thinking.
Stranglings". The author just tells the facts of the story telling about the lives of multiple people
Robert Newton Peck was born in the late 1930’s in Vermont. Haven Peck, his father was a “quiet and gentle man whose work was killing pigs.” (dedication of novel). Peck grew up on a farm and worked as a lumberjack, in a paper mill, and in a slaughterhouse before he wrote his first book. He was first inspired to write by his first through sixth grade teacher, Miss Kelly, a well-loved lady who filled Peck with dreams about what he could do, if he wanted to. Peck was also inspired by an incident at a cocktail party. “ I watched people ram goose liver into their maws and then announce how opposed they were to violence.” Peck went on to serve in World War II for two years, and afterwards, graduated from Rollins College and went to study at Cornell University.
She gets terrified and self-conscious and runs away because she thinks that he is only staying with her because his devotion felt more like a curse than actual love. In this piece of text you can catch heaps of similes and metaphors like, “Those calves, I swear, like bricks” (Rassette, 31), “He kept his dreams of us tucked away, hoarded them like those gas-station receipts he jams into the back pocket of his jeans” (Rassette, 32), “He’s charming, but in a dusty way, like the chimes of an old clock” (Rassette, 34), “Now I felt shriveled and curled, more like a fetus feasting on a conjoined twin than a mother growing a son” (Rassette, 31); this quote can also fit into the imagery category, even though it’s a bit too gory for readers to read about love. I picked this piece of text because it is one of those cliché stories where there is always a happy ending. It is also told in first person point of view, along with the other two
relationship with a married woman, and Proctor, a married man, falls for a young girl and
Although their love has endured through many years, it has come to an end in the story. All throughout the story the couple is reminiscing about their life and while they are there are some odd details that are strewn throughout.
The production focuses on a set of teenagers who are friends with Allison, who surreptitiously convinces her friends to share their secrets, thus developing her loyalty to them. Once Allison disappeared, she left a mystery of who was responsible for her disappearance, dragging her friends into her dark secrets. Her body is later found, and the girls, who drifted apart after Allison went missing, start to reconnect, but their troubles are only beginning. After the funeral, all four of the girls receive messages from a stoker who calls himself or herself 'A'. ‘A' exposes many of the girl's dark secrets that only Allison knew of, leading the girls to wonder if Allison might be alive after all. ‘A' causes trouble for the girls and intervenes in their life, threatening not only their lives, but also the lives of those around them. On the road to discovering who ‘A' is, the girls come across numerous clues that incriminate people that they trust and love. Many citizens of the town seem involved in the mystery of their friend's death, making the entire town seem like a place of danger and discomfort.
Scene: This story takes place in New York City, New York in the mid 90's. While the UN conference is in town, a series of kidnappings has erupted and it's up to a team of forensic scientists to follow the clues and find the killer.
While she might think that her plans are working, they only lead her down a path of destruction. She lands in a boarding house, when child services find her, she goes to jail, becomes pregnant by a man who she believed was rich. Also she becomes sentenced to 15 years in prison, over a street fight with a former friend she double crossed. In the end, she is still serving time and was freed by the warden to go to her mother’s funeral. To only discover that her two sisters were adopted by the man she once loved, her sister is with the man who impregnated her, and the younger sister has become just like her. She wants to warn her sister, but she realizes if she is just like her there is no use in giving her advice. She just decides that her sister must figure it out by
I heard this from my friend about two girls at some college. I think they were like freshmen or something. But they lived together, I think in a dorm room together and one of them left the room, and the other one was sleeping. The girl who left, had left their door unlocked, and the lights off, and when she came back from the party she went straight to sleep in the dark. (Thinks to himself.) When she woke up, her friend was murdered and there was blood everywhere. I think later on they said t...
Stephen Edwin King was the son of Donald King and Ruth Pillsbury-King. He was born on September 21st, 1947 in the town of Portland, Maine. Stephen’s dad, Donald, abandoned the family when Stephen was very young. Stephen grew up with his hard working mother and his older brother, David. Stephen and his family moved around a lot throughout his childhood, but they finally settled in Durham, Maine when Stephen was eleven. Stephen was a student at Durham Grammar School, and he continued his schooling at Lisbon Falls High School and graduated in 1966.Throughout Stephen’s years in school he was an introverted child. He read many comic books and fantasy-horror fiction novels, and he loved to watch science fiction and monster movies in his free time. Stephen wrote many short stories while he was in high school, and he even won an essay contest. Aside from his schooling, Stephen was played on his high school’s football team and he was in a band called the MoonSpinners. After high school, Stephen went to the University of Maine to major in English. While in college, Stephen took many writing classes and continued writing his stories. He also wrote a column in the University’s newspaper. He tried to make money off of his writings, but since he got a small amount of income for his short stories he had to work other odd jobs as well. He graduated from the university with a B.A. in English in 1970. After graduating from university, Stephen married Tabitha Spruce whom he later had three children with, and he began teaching at Hampden Academy. In 1973 Stephen’s first novel, Carrie, was published, so Stephen quit his teaching job to become a full time author. Stephen has published many works since 1973.
Belief is one of those words that might mean something different to every person asked. The Oxford Dictionary of English gives the definition of belief as – “Trust, faith, or confidence (in someone or something)” (151). There are many beliefs that we see practiced by the characters of the book and still practiced today that have ties to a much older time – a time before science. In that time much knowledge was actually what would today be referred to as cultural knowledge, based on patterns sensed in life and nature, including the unseen and the unproven. The rituals and beliefs based on these patterns are what we refer to today as superstition. O'Brien tells us, “The things they carried were determined to some extent by superstition” (O'Brien 12). Janet Goodall provides an updated overview of superstitious action, “such actions are attempts to exercise human agency in situations where other avenues of influencing outcomes have either already been taken or are not available” (Goodall 310). Some categories that are based on cultural knowledge (superstitious beliefs) and these patterns to be discussed are fated, fated but fixable, rituals of avoidance, positive superstition and folklore.
‘Upon the flesh’ is a story about a murder committed in an alleyway by a group of teenagers up to no good. John Franklin provided appropriate detail and used techniques that engaged the audience in a correct manner. The other story listed, ‘Fresh bait’ also fits well into the crime fiction. This story is about a man/woman who is trying to solve a murder while hitchhiking. During his/her investigation he/she is picked up by a man driving along the road who almost suits the picture of the suspect. Several times the victim becomes odd and the driver starts to get suspicious but before anything else happens, he/she arrives at their destination and all of a sudden the investigation stops. The technique that Sherryl Clark used really engaged the audience because the story was never giving answers to the investigation, each scene just became more suspicious and
The novel begins with the protagonist, April Wheeler, portraying Gabrielle in an amateur-theatre production of the play, The Petrified Forest. The play ends up being a total disaster and leaves April devastated, leaving her disconnected from Frank, her husband, and her neighbors, Milly and Shep Campbell afterwards. The play, The Petrified Forest, is a disastrous love story of a man who decides to have himself die to keep the women he loves out of a life of misery. In the end of The Petrified Forest, Gabrielle is able to escape from her horrible lifestyle and fulfill her dreams; April was never able to do that.
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.
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