Pet Semmary Is Loss By Stephen King Literary Analysis

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Pet Sematary in a horror novel written by author Stephen King. The theme of Pet Sematary is Loss, and how people deal with loss. The author develops this through many different things. In Pet Sematary, there is a man named Louis, and him and his family had moved into a new village. While they were there their cat died, which led Louis’s new neighbor Jud Crandall takes Louis to this place called the Pet Semetary. Louis buries his cat in the cemetery, as he is about to inform the family that the cat is dead, the cat is back from the grave but lifeless and hostile. Jud explains to Louis that if a pet is buried in the cemetery, they are reanimated and the will return home. Louis was wondering if there had been any

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