Violence In Everything's Eventual By Stephen King

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Worldwide, violence is still a problem that several countries have some difficulties to managed. Wars, crimes, and terrorist attacks are the proof that violence as an important role in our world. In Everything’s Eventual, violence is one of the main components of Stephen King’s novella where Dinky, the main character is constantly around some kind of violence. Does violence have a significant impact on Dinky’s life in this novella? Well, violence has a very important impact in Dinky’s life as he uses it as a livelihood and as a feeling of belonging. In the novella, Everything’s Eventual, violence has a significant impact on changing Dinky’s lifestyle from the beginning to the end. According to King, “Driving for Pizza Roma was the lowest …show more content…

According to King, when Dinky is talking about Mr.Sharpton, he said, “I think it was just the way he put his hand on my arm, like your Dad would. Not that I have a Dad, But I can imagine.” (284) In this passage, it seems like Dinky had not met his father which explain what he compared the way Mr.Sharpton treats him to the way a father would treat his child. Dinky felt like he was important to Mr.Sharpton and that he got his support in his decisions. Moreover, King portrays this feeling of belonging when Dinky said, “The truth was, I’d been doing what I was doing because I loved the feeling I got when I was composing the special letters, the feeling that there was a river of fire running through the center of my head.” (315-316) We can see that Dinky love the feeling he gets while he is working at Transcorp. He feels like writing special letters makes him finally belong to a group called “trannies”. Furthermore, Stephen King also mentioned this feeling when Mr. Sharpton said, “ I also know that you didn’t drop out because you were stupid; you dropped out because you didn’t fit. In that way, you are like every other tranny I’ve ever met” (287) This passage shows us that Mr.Sharpton gives a feeling of belonging to Dinky by putting him in the trannies’ group. By using Dinky’s experiences that he had in high school, Dinky felt like someone was finally caring about him and that he belonged to a group

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