Analysis Of Stephen King's The Boogeyman

Stephen King is addicted to writing. He just didn’t like to write, he loved it. At an early age King was hooked on drugs and alcohol. In alternative to that he wrote books to complisate the horrible things he was doing. In June 1999; he almost died anyway. He and his family were staying at their lake house in western Maine. It was late afternoon and King was finishing up his daily four-mile walk alongside a small highway. Suddenly a minivan crested the hill and pinballed King off its windshield. He came down in a clump. His head was bleeding, his lap seemed to be turned sideways and he saw that a bone in his right leg was pointing in the wrong direction. Five weeks later, King would resume writing after be hospitalized for several months.

King would eventually go on to win several novels throughout his career. One of his short fiction novels “The Boogeyman” was no exception. In the short novel “ The Boogeyman” by Stephen King is about a fantasy monster; or so you think. There are two main characters in the novel, which are Dr. Harper and Lester Billings. Dr. Harper is a psychologist that deals with people in denial. A man name Lester Billings came to Dr. Harper to talk about the murder of his three kids. To begin with, Mr.

He was not the one to choose his words wisely before he spoke. He would drop all kinds of racial slurs that he really had need in saying. He would talk bad about his own wife. Billings would say,” Rita was just a tramp, a common little corner-walker.” (Billings pg.7). He would often call Dr. Harper bad names as well. I believe all this murder stuff about his kids was getting to him. He couldn’t really think straight. Talked about how during the war in Vietnam he called the soldiers hippies and was still using racial slurs. Billings was just a negative person all around. There is a plot twist though to the novel. After all, the novel is called, “The