Essay Stephen Edwin King is an excellent writer who can tell heart-wrenching stories and thrilling tales. His childhood life was rough because of a divorce, he uses description and emotion to make fake stories become so much more real, and because of this, he is very successful. King uses scary details, and sad backstories to make his writing exceptional, with a sad backstory and detailed writing style, King illustrates his success as a writer. Stephen King’s childhood life was short-lived and torn apart because of his parent's divorce at a young age. According to Encyclopedia of World Biographie, when King was just two years old, his father left unexpectedly under the impression of “buying a pack of cigarettes.” Unfortunately, because …show more content…
In 1971 King became an English teacher at Hampden Academy and began writing his first novel Carrie in his past time. After drafting the first couple chapters King became severely depressed and developed suicidal thoughts. In the midst of this King developed both a drinking and Crack Cocaine addiction which leads to the burning of Carrie, lung cancer, and family issues. King also developed the constant urge to hurt his children when he was drunk, recalling a technique learned as a child King wrote about things he didn't want to happen in real life, thus the creation of The Shining, a story about a father hunting, tormenting, and killing his son. On a much heavier note while many were in awe of the house none knew what was going on inside. King even admits in his 2008 biography that while many would be celebrating outside the fences of his house he was most likely putting another batch of q-tips in his nose to stop the bleeding because he was excessivly addicted to Crack …show more content…
When King’s smash hit IT came out, King moved into a Victorian style mansion in Maine, which featured stained glass windows with bats on nearly all of them, reflecting the horror stories that were being written inside of them. Tourists come from all over to see this one-of-a-kind house. Once King’s wife Tabitha kicked King out of the house and restricted all alcohol if he wanted to come back in. This, however, simply drove King mad because all of his best sellers were written when he was either drunk, sober, or high. This scared King because if he couldn't be drunk he feared he may not be able to write any more best-sellers. When King’s addiction and depression ceased he chose to finally resume one of his first works, Carrie. King changed the plot from one more aligned to Shawshank Redemption’s plot, to a girl who was mercilessly bullied and “unleashes her telekinetic powers on all who get in her way”(IMDb, Huggo). This quote is reflective of King’s life when metaphorically bullied by an addiction he chose to take a stand and face all his problems with courage. This is why King is more successful than most other writers will ever be in their entire
Richard King was a naturalized Texan, born in the state of New York in 1824 (Cheeseman). He was not born into a wealthy family. His parents were poor Irish folk, doing their best to survive. For this reason, King’s parents contracted him to work for a jeweler in New York City. The jeweler abused King to the point where King slipped onto a ship heading south to escape a life of servitude to the abusive jeweler (KING RANCH). Heading south on the steamer, King could hardly fathom the decision he made as an 11 year old boy would alter his life forever.
Dr. King uses imagery in his writing that makes the audience visualize what he has seen. He knows that the white moderates have strong family values, so he reaches out to them by providing stories about children. There is one story about a little girl who has just seen an ad on television and when she asks her father if she can go, he has to look his daughter in the eye and tell her that ?Funtown is closed to colored children?(King 561). He then goes on to explain about how that forces that young child to grow up to feel inferior and to begin to hate because she has darker skin than the other children do. Then there is another story about the family taking a cross-country vacation and having to ??sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile?? because motels would not accept colored people (King 561). It ...
In 1974 a book was published, there have been over 4 million copies of this book sold. This book is even in our school library! Guess what book this is. It’s Carrie by Stephen King! Stephen’s first book in fact was Carrie, but lets get a little more into the author before we get into that.
... get his stories to fascinate readers. He is crazy but he is amazing at what he does. His love of cars and fantasy is what got me into reading his books. Stephen King bases his stories and movies on Edgar Allen Poes works. For example, Dolan’s Cadillac is a newer version of Cask of Amontillado but way worse. The newest novel he has written is Under the Dome. I love reading because of him. I hope he continues what he is doing now.
In 1958, when King was eleven years old, the family moved to Durham, Maine. This was where King discovered that he had something in common with his father. In the attic of his aunt and uncle’s garage he discovered an old trunk that contained a box of his father’s books, including some by horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, and some of his father’s attempts as writing short stories. King’s teachers reported that one of his greatest passions was writing stories of his own, which he started doing at age six (Hoppenstand 8; Stephen King). Stephen King’s life has influenced his works and served as an important source of inspiration, which is evident in his education and early writing experiences, his pseudonym Richard Bachman, and his near-fatal acc...
In his teens King moved back to the Delta and one of his employers loaned him money so he can purchase his first guitar. He continued to teach himself by using mail-order instruction books. King was eventually able to land a skilled job at the time as a tractor driver. When he wasn't working he was a street performer "he sang for small change on street corners in the nearby towns, sometimes visiting as many as four towns in a single evening". (Academy of Achievement)
Mr. King was a phenomenal man, even as a boy, he was very articulate and smart for his age. He was the second child of King Sr. who died in 1984 and was a pastor, his mother, Alberta Williams King worked as a former schoolteacher. King Jr. was the middle child of older sister Christine and younger brother Alfred. He grew up in the city’s Sweet Auburn neighborhood, where there most prosperous and prominent African Americans were to come. King Jr. had attended segregated public schools and had been admitted at the age 15 to Morehouse College where he studied medicine and law.
For such a successful writer, Stephen King really had no secret to his writing style. King has credited free writing for his best ideas. He also has a very down to earth way of looking at his fame. Stephen King would read for four hours, and then he would write for four hours or until he reached 2,000 words. In a Time magazine interview, King called this his nine to five approach and that he, “worked until beer o’ clock.” When asked where his ideas came from, King would often reply, “I have the heart of a small boy. . . And I keep it in a jar on my desk.” Also, he does not have just one particular way of writing horror, and what often sets off the terror in his readers most was the vast amount of detail portrayed.
...domestic abuse, and drug intoxication even after his incident.79 King walked around with a bullet proof vest due to receiving many threats, even years after his incident.80 On June 17, 2012, King was found dead in his swimming pool in California at the age of 47.
King owes his success to his ability to take what he says are “real fears” (The Stephen King Story, 47) and turn them into a horror story. When he says “real fears” they are things we have all thought of such as a monster under the bed or even a child kidnapping and he is making them a reality in his story. King looks at “horror fiction...as a metaphor” (46) for everything that goes wrong in our lives. His mind and writing seems to dwell in the depths of the American people’s fears and nightmares and this is what causes his writing to reach so many people and cause the terror he writes about to be instilled in his reader.
Lewis, David L.- King:Critical Biography: Praeger Publishers: New York/Washington 1970- This was a very useful book. It provided some very good information on King. Although it is an extremely hard read it was very, very helpful.
Stephen King began abusing alcohol when he was sixteen years old. He said his childhood was unhappy for his substance abuse. King said he was scared of quitting drugs, he thought that, that would end his career. With the help and support of his family and friends, King continues to maintain his sobriety by attending AA meetings regularly. Though King was drinking in high school, he turned to harder drugs while attending the University of Maine. Stephen King did drugs such as marijuana, speed, and LSD. The consequences of his alcohol and drug abuse finally caught up to him. Just before his graduation, he got caught stealing traffic cones during a night of heavy drinking and was arrested. Stephen King says he dealt with his poverty and depression
When Williams died in 1931, Michael King Sr. followed in his father-in-law's footsteps as pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church. King, too, became a very successful minister. The King children grew up in a secure and loving environment. As King Jr. said in "An Autobiography of Religious Development," an essay written for a class at Crozer Seminary when he was 23: "It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where love was central and where lovely relationships were ever present."
King was one of the most remarkable people on the face of the Earth. He never gave up on what he believed in, even when people got angry. King was inspired to do something great, and unlike many people, he actually did something. He pushed out the darkness in our world with the brightest light in the world. Even when he was gone that light never even flickered, that’s just how strong it was. He was that light, shining bright enough to fill up the entire