1) Title: “Stephen King”
Author: Amy Keyishian and Marjorie Keyishian
Copyright date: 1996,1998
2) The setting was a small town in Bangor, Maine where Stephen King was raised. Some times and places in which major actions occur are as follows:
9/21/47-The master of horror, Stephen King was born.
1970- King received his English degree graduating with honors.
01-71- King married Tabitha Spruce whom he met when they were students at the University of Maine. He taught six English classes at Hampden University in Maine
1973- His first best selling novel, “Carrie”, was published.
1976- “Carrie” was the first of his works to be made into a television movie.
1978- “Night Shift” was published and a succession of books followed -Different Seasons,
“Cujo”, “Danse Macabre”, “Salem’s Lot”, “The Shining”, “Skeleton Crew”(1985 collection of his short stories)Pet Semetary, The Talisman, etc.
1979- Under the name of Richard Bachman, he wrote The Long Walk, and Rage. In 1985,
King reveals to the world in the Bangor Daily News that he and Bachman are indeed one and the same. As Bachman, King’s novels were more on a sad note.
3) a. The portion of the book that interested me the most was the author’s detailed description of one of Stephen King’s main characters, Carrie in his best selling novel. The author provides pictures that actually send goose bumps up your spine. The actress that portrayed Carrie in the television movie, Sissy Spacek, was dripping wet in pigs blood just before she uses her telekinetic powers to cause explosions and fires. Carrie was extremely depressed because she had been excluded from everything by her fellow classmates at Bates High School where she attended.
When she is asked to go to the prom by Tommy as part of a prank unbeknownst to her, she becomes excited and happy. She is selected as Queen and Tommy as King. Fellow classmates end up ruining the one happy night of her life and she decides to take revenge.
She has horror in her eyes and a maddening smile. The movie is considered by most critics to be one of the best adaptations of a King book. The schoolmate’s screams would be enough to send chills up your spine if you have seen this movie or read his book. Attached are pictures that appeared on page 14 and 68 in the book. Illustration 3 is taken from “The Body”. Illustration 4 is from “Misery”. Illustration 5 is King hard at work. Illustration 6 shows him graduating from
What many people don’t know about King is his how he was as a person, not a writer. People may think that he is a very violent and mysterious person, but Stephen King is not like that at all, said an ex-student of Kings. Arthur Norton said in an interview with King, “There is this genial childlike quality about King… He is an average guy.” King says in the same interview, “I am a very credulous person. I will believe what I am told.”
“The Kings were the typical, “nuclear” family of the fifties until one night when Donald King said he was stepping out for cigarettes and was never heard from again.” At this point Ruth took over raising the family with help from other relatives of the family. They traveled throughout many states over several years finally moving back to Durham, Maine in 1958. (P.R. 5 pg.1)
He and Tabitha Spruce married in January of 1971. He met Tabitha in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University of Maine at Orono, where they both worked as students. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.
While practicing medicine, he began writing his first novel, The Kite Runner, in March 2001.
Miss Desjardin, still incensed over the locker room incident and ashamed at her initial disgust with Carrie, wants all the girls who made fun of Carrie suspended and banned from attending the school prom, but the principal instead punishes the girls by giving them several detentions. When Chris, after an altercation with Miss Desjardin, refuses to appear for the detention, she is suspended and barred from the prom and tries to get her fat...
Ginevra King was a beautiful and wealthy debutante from Lake Forest, with whom Fitzgerald had a romantic relationship from 1915 to 1917. Fitzgerald’s first encounter with King was during his Christmas vacation in St. Paul Minnesota, January 1915. At the time, she was a student at the Westover women's preparatory school in Middlebury, Connecticut.
14)What do you know about the author? What was his or her purpose on writing the book.
2. The iota of depth in the book made it a hard plot to follow.
in Florida. “He and Tabitha Spruce married in January of 1971. He met Tabitha in the
Despite the book being well written, there are several parts that I would re-write; here I will describe two of them.
While Robbins’s work was at first ill received, by the mid-1970s the public had started to warm up to this quirky and thought provoking writer. Even today, his work invites inquiry about what prompted him to write this controversial novel. That is, who and what influenced this line of thought? What was happening in America and with Christianity during the period, in which he wrote and researched this piece of fiction? And, finally, why did he write in this sporadic, nonlinear fashion, inserting seemingly non-related details and encrypting an official report within the structure of a novel? And how does this relate to the influences mentioned above? All of these questions and more offer themselves up from the pages of this funny and whimsical, yet philosophical and wise novel, Another Roadside Attraction.
In Carrie, Stephen King examines humiliation in the society at that time as an instigator of anger. Carrie White is an ideal example of humiliation in the novel. This character has a tragic history. Her story is a tale about social isolation, peer pressure and religion. Carrie is usually angry because she wants to have a normal life, but she cannot because she is afraid of her mother who has strange religious views. Margaret views Carrie as the embodiment of sin in the flesh because she has sex with her husband before marriage. Margaret is very religious, so she refers to the Bible and this is a religious illusion. Thus, Margaret becomes very cruel towards Carrie believing that she does this for Carrie's own sake.
The Mind and the Physical Body Since the times of Plato and Aristotle, the argument of dualism and mutualism of the mind and body has been in existence. Dualism has been the driving force behind the existence of the mind/body problem and has been by far the majority view due largely to the influence of Descartes. In recent times, modern medicine has taken a shift towards mutualism. Outside stimuli, as perceived by the mind, affect the body either beneficially or adversely. While the body as an organism has the capacity to heal, evidence proves that the mind expedites recovery.
An editor wanted to publish his book, Getting It On, but the company turned it down (Madison 86). Novel after novel was getting turned down. Then one day while sitting in his furnace room, he pulled out an unpublished short story and started to turn it into a novel, but he didn’t like the progress he was making on the novel, so he stopped working on it and forgot about it (Madison 86). Sometime after this occurred, his wife Tabitha found it and urged her husband to finish it and send it to the publishers (Madison 86). The book he sent was Carrie and it was his first published book that became a best seller. After writing more and more best sellers he worked with a comic artist to create a giant-sized comic book called Creepshow (Madison 88) Many of King’s top sellers were turned into movies. King writes so quickly that he started to write under another name and that was Richard Bachman (Madison 89). King writes most of his books in an office he built in his own home (Madison 89). He mostly writes in the morning and does other things for the rest of the day (Madison 89). Stephen’s novels have won many awards including the World Fantasy Award (Madison 89). Today, King is the author of 33 books and dozens of short stories and several screenplays (Madison 89). He has no plans to retire and he feels that writing is a way of staying young (Madison 91). Stephen King is one of the best known and
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