Stephen King reading from his novel Doctor Sleeps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATChLGnJLrg
1-“The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.”
2-“The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out.”
3-“Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.”
These three passages are all linked together, Stephen King became such a successful horror genre style writer due to his ability to attack the common person’s fears and phobias. in the first passage, from the shining, it’s the fear of abandonment, the fear of not being able to please everyone. In the second quote from IT, it’s talking about the fear people of have of each other. the social expectations that are set by
Passage Analysis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATChLGnJLrg
1-“The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.”
2-“The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out.”
3-“Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.”
These three passages are all linked together, Stephen King became such a successful horror genre style writer due to his ability to attack the common person’s fears and phobias. in the first passage, from the shining, it’s the fear of abandonment, the fear of not being able to please everyone. In the second quote from IT, it’s talking about the fear people of have of each other. the social expectations that are set by
Passage Analysis:
- The author's writing style is very unique, his novels are based upon the common man’s phobias. The things that scared people, spiders, clowns, isolation, vampires, etc. So the technique used would be scare tactics.
- three literary elements: symbolism: the symbolism of Stephen King’s work and the passage(s) is that the things that are the story of the novel, are based off of what stephen king perceived to be things that everyone is scared of. his intentions were to scare people.
- Point of view: In the novels that king wrote, the characters are often ones that can be subjected to the problems at hand in the novel. In It, the clown pennywise targeted children at young age and tormented them for an entire 30 years. this is an example of learned helplessness, where they were they preyed on because of their profiling, as in age and vulnerability.
- an important literary element demonstrated in king’s writings is the plot. As spoken of in the latter, stephen king is a mastermind of horror novels because he targets things that “everyone” is afraid of. He uses common fears of the common public and twists that into a well written novel.
- the motif or reoccurring themes of King’s writing is that the fear that everyone has within them, and to use that. his intent of this writing is to scare people. that is what stephen king does best. this is significant, the psychological warfare of fear is everywhere.
- The literal meaning and the philosophical meanings of these passages