Stephen King Went Beyond The Nom Analysis

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There was a period in America’s history known as the Modern Era. In this age, the book industry was revolutionized, with new ways to write. One author went beyond the nom is Stephen King. He is a different kind of novelist, who desires to shake one down to their very soul. King once said, “I don’t want to just mess with your head; I want to mess with your life.” (1King) A brief look into his life and history as well as a few works will show evidence that he wants to incapacitate the reader from normal daily life. There was two events that influenced Stephen the first was the launch of Sputnik I, the two world’s superpowers the United States of America and the Union Soviet Socialist Republics were locked in a space race, which was really a battle for superiority. With the launch of Sputnik shook Americans …show more content…

On January 2, 1971, not even a year after graduation, Stephen was the luckiest man alive, He and Tabitha was wedded on a Saturday afternoon, due to the laundry mat not being open. They moved into a very small trailer near the university for Tabitha could receive her degree in history. King wrote very little during this stressful time, he started on the manuscript for a future successful series the Dark Tower, Stephen was able to write enough short stories to submit to a men’s magazine, to receive a good lump sum of money. He would only send the published stories to his mother only after he would cut them out of the magazine for he did not want his mother to see the explicit photographs or advertisement that was in the

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