Carrie By Stephen King Analysis

The Impact of Stephen King on American Culture “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, sometimes, they win.” Stephen King is one of the most revered authors of the horror genre. He has around 130 works and has sold 350 million copies of his novels, making King very well known especially in pop culture.

He is a person who has overcome adversity and therefore has grit. Stephen King’s father left his family without warning when Stephen King was a young boy. His first novel, The Long Walk, was rejected and he took the rejection hard, but kept writing. He started writing his novel, The Dark Tower, but the expenses of writing were too much for him to pay. King submitted his novel Carrie to 30 publishers and got rejected each time.

Horror stories generally and naturally scare people, but that doesn’t mean that the story is that frightening. The stories get into people’s nerves and they start thinking deep inside about what can happen, but not necessarily about the story, they start thinking about themselves and their live. Sometimes the horror stories are not scary like monstrous and ghosts, they are realistic and several people can identify themselves with the story. Writers uses smart ways to keep readers reading. It needs a good and smart critical thinking to write down the facts and certain events.

Stephen King is widely known as a master or horror stories. His chilling thriller, ‘Salem’s Lot captures the attention of even the bravest readers, and pull them into a story so addicting and horrific, they have no choice but to continue. In his novel, King manifests expressive descriptive details and subtle foreshadowing, but also includes puzzling, untimely and ambiguous flashbacks. Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine on September 21st, 1947.

The checkered past and symbolism of the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s novel ,The Shining, reflects the characters’ pasts and influences their actions in order to show the building as more of an antagonist (of sorts) than a setting. One example of support for the claim is when Jack Torrence is having a dream after discovering the blood and bits in the Presidential suite from a gang fight years prior, where he believes that he is killing an intruder of the hotel with a mallet, but as he threw the mallet down, “the face below him was not of the intruder but of Danny’s. It was the face of his son. Then the mallet crashed home, closing his eyes forever. Suddenly Jack awoke standing over Danny’s bed, his fists clenched tightly.”

After the infection, he starts killing the Camberses and causing a problem, the very loyal dog turned into a beast with murderous intentions. Cujo, while not an uplifting tale, tells a very real story containing situations that could possibly happen, which is why it makes such a bold statement about people and the

He was a trailblazer for his time, making history in his movies. In his most famous film, Psycho, he crossed some lines that had never been crossed before in television history. This movie featured a “transvestite” killer, grotesque stabbings, and an intense death of the main character in the first thirty minutes of the movie. Many people believed his movie was too risqué or improper at the time. According to The Alfred Hitchcock Wiki, Psycho was the first movie to show things such as a toilet flushing and no movie had seen stabbings as detailed as Psycho.

Stephen King, American author, writes about every nightmare producing topic imaginable, and Stephen King is one of the best horror fiction novelists, who has written the greatest horror fiction novels of the twentieth and twenty first century. Stephen King has been living in Maine for the majority of his life. Maine is the setting most often

The movie depiction is able to elicit fear through cinematic techniques, and the novel uses fear in a different way than the movie which is more effective in frightening the reader. Haunting of Hill House is considered a cinematic classic. Using mise-en-scene the director can elicit fear. Hill House is full of statues and mirrors,

It is used to make the story become more real, and easier for the reader to place himself in the story, and feel the same way as the characters. Stephen King is using the terror effect throughout the whole story. He is making the feeling of dread and anticipation the main factors in the horrifying experience. He also uses the horror effect, when he is writing about The Boogeyman, but he leaves out the gross out part. Edgar Allan Poe is in the same way using both terror and horror to give the reader the most horrifying experience.

Also, King is a good writer and his novels show that with their literary composition. He includes good vocabulary, a variety of paragraph and sentence lengths, and creates a setting that makes the reader feel like they are a part of the story. Many horror novels also include a discrete and often ignored life lesson about fears. Cujo showed that having fears was normal and dealing with those fears only came through confrontation. Donna Trenton was terrified that Cujo was going to kill her if she stepped out of the car, especially since she had already been bitten on the leg and stomach by him, but she she still got out of the car, grabbed the baseball bat, and killed the dog.

Fear plays a big part in everyone’s lives. While not everyone will admit it, everyone is scared of something. There is a lot that isn’t known about the world and everything in it. For some this is a tool that can be used to develop horror in literature as well as many other things. “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

The Horror Genre: Unmasking Fears Across Generations Horror films push social boundaries and exploit Americans worst fears in a way that excites, challenges, and makes viewers obsessed with terrifying themselves. The horror genre is a vehicle that allows people to cope with their worst fears, such as death outside of their everyday reality. Horror films provide us with unimaginable or impossible situations making our own fears seem less terrifying. Horror films caricature the current social problems that preoccupied people’s concerns during that time period and create their “monsters” to embody the current fears.

To begin, Horror fiction can keep the reader on the edge of their seat, contemplating what is going to happen next. Through the eyes of the reader, suspense can often lead them to indulging themselves into the novel

The people who make horror movies really know how to get to the root of our fears and course that makes sense because scaring the wits out of us is their bread and butter. Whether they’re playing on our insecurities about own lives or bringing our darkest nightmares to life, we can’t get enough of horror movies. The truth is that we love the feeling of being afraid, it’s thrilling and gets our blood pumping, but we also want to feel that way in a safe environment i.e half hiding under the blanket in our bed at home. Now we all have our favorites when it comes to horror movies, some of us enjoy supernatural or religious themed stories while others like slasher or gore flicks, but I think we can all agree that when child actors appear in horror movies it makes them even more terrifying.