Stephen King College Essays Samples For Students

1. “Notes on Punctuation” by Lewis Thomas - Summary
The writers use punctuation marks in order to set the tone of the text according to Lewis Thomas. This differs from language to language and there are very few marks in English. It is important to use punctuation so that people do not write in an ambiguous manner. Commas are useful more than any other marks because they have many purposes. They should not be used in great amounts although they add a specific meaning. Lewis thinks that semicolons are important as well because they let the writer express themselves ...

The antihero is a long-established literary convention, in which a main character does not have the normal trappings of heroism that you might normally find in traditional heroes. Antiheroes are not idealistic, they are pragmatic; self-centered instead of selfless; amoral instead of moral, and so on. These anti-heroes are not meant to be role models, but are often avatars for the desires and ideals of whomever is writing them, as well; in the case of Stephen King’s horror novel Misery and Ian Fleming’s James Bond novel Moonraker, the characters of James Bond and Paul Sheldon both carry many similar ...

Imagined Meeting with Lee Harvey Oswald

Stating the reason for choosing a particular historical figure
Biography facts of Lee Oswald`s life
Description of my meeting
Conclusion
There is no doubt the novel “11/22/63” written by Stephen King is implicitly recognized as one of his best books not only by millions of the writer`s fans but also by serious literary critics. The assassination of President Kennedy was the most tragic event in the American history of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, the mystery of it has not yet been disclosed. If a miracle had happened, I would have talked to Lee Harvey Oswald. I am ...

Introduction

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.” These words by Stephen King illustrate the concept of the modern literature: what is treated as an imagery shall become a fixed figure of the culture. The effect of the mass culture provoked a big irreversible changes of the European culture into the mass one. For example, a vampire no longer rises from his grave and turns into bat to fly from place to place. Skinner Sweet, an anti-hero born from the comic book series by Stephen King and Scott Snyder, is the first American ...

Stephen King’s essay entitled “My Creature From The Black Lagoon” is a piece that he has written about seeing the 1954 movie “Creature From The Black Lagoon”. It was a horror film that was set in the Amazon Basin. He recalls seeing it is a child, about seven years old and recounts how he felt during that time. He also speaks about his childhood, living with his mother and remembering her three boyfriends. It was when he first felt fear from a horror film, no matter how unrealistic it might have been – he tells of how his seven year old self reacted ...

Introduction

Bag of Bones of Stephen King is a most fascinating and impressive story of misery and a vanished love's lasting connections which the readers deeply feel, that of the new love emerged by the disclosures of the history, of the guiltless child seized in a awful crossfire. The readers of the story analyze that in the Maine area King has created mythic, so Bag of Bones relates the dilemma of 40 years bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, who is incapable to end grieving still 4 years after the abrupt death of his wife, Jo, as well as who could no longer stand to ...

Abstract

The premise of the novel is that every year, about 100 teenage boys from all over the US volunteer and participate in a Long Walk. They start walking from Maine to south for the grand price. They walk without stopping until there is only one person able to continue. You must not drop to below 4 miles per hour; else you receive an official warning. If competitors breach their limit of 3 warnings, they are shot dead. The walkers are followed by military vehicle carrying monitoring equipment and soldiers with heavy guns. This essay seeks to show how King ...

Stephen King

Stephen King, in his essay Why We Crave Horror Movies, takes a humoristic yet insightful take on the human tendency to revel in freak, absurd and morbid expressions through the medium of horror movies. In his essay, King states that everybody is insane and the sanity is only the degree to which a human is insane. He states that people watch horror movies to feed their inner demons and to lock up their insanity to be acceptable to the society. The essay portrays rather disturbingly the truth behind people’s need to watch horror movies.

Use of Literary Devices

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True communication involves the understanding of thoughts and feelings, whether this is between two people directly, or one person talking to another (or many others) through the written word. This idea is expressed in different ways through six short stories: Benjamin Franklin’s "Learning to Write", George Orwell’s "Politics And The English Language", Garrison Keillor’s "How To Write A Letter", Stephen King’s "On Writing", Frederick Douglass’ "Learning To Read", and Edgar Burroughs’ "Tarzan Of The Apes" (Chapter 7). Each of the short stories differs in their approach to achieving this goal of understanding, but ...

Horror, as a genre of fiction, plays a very important part in the human experience. Through horror stories, mankind is allowed to experience fear in a safe environment. For us, fear is thrilling; the rush of endorphins that one feels when they are scared, and the relief that pours over us when the danger is gone, is something that many people chase over and over again. Horror is also important to allow us to face existing fears, and figure out why we are so frightened of them. In this way, horror helps us learn more about ourselves and how we work, and ...