Stephen King Research Paper

Stephen king has been called the master of modern horror his novels have gone to be bestsellers and have been adapted to motion pictures such as the shinning, Carrie, it, Pet semetery, etc. He writes the most riveting stories. His concepts are deprived from observations that normal people wouldn’t think twice and even if we can it we usually can’t effectively apply it. In his memoir describing his childhood it was apparent that he was foreshadowing the future he would eventually have as one of the greatest horror novelist.

Stephen king was born September 21, 1947 in Portland Maine the second son of Donald Edwin and Nellie king. King fathers eventually abandon the family when king was two and his mother became the main provider

In fact, when he was a guest speaker at the University of Massachusetts Lowell he say one the question people ask him all the time is how he get inspired. He says” when asked that question I am only able to answer fifty percent of the time where I got the ideas and the rest of it is totally like getting idea in a dream and I can’t really remember where they came from” (ParanormalTravels. Stephen King Speaks about How he gets Inspired. YouTube. YouTube 5 Aug 2013) In his memoir king talks about how he observing his mom lick S&H green stamps and her tongue turning green and how it would be so much easier to make them in a basement he came up with his first original idea. and at a young age he knew how to use simple observations and put it to us accordingly. From this he gave great advice to aspiring writers which is “two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. your job isn’t to find these ideas but recognize them when they show up” (king 37). A strategy so simple but complex. He was so pleased with his work he sent his story happy stamps to Alfred Hitchcock’s magazine. Which was eventually meet with a rejection slip note at the bottom that said don’t staple manuscripts. Which was pretty harsh advice to kid and was very superficial. That

Stephen king got rides with strangers not caring how dangerous only to see a moving picture on the screen. While many people would agree that’s idiotic. This could be analyzed as Stephen king was in love with these as much as his family that he would risk his life even though during this time hitchhiking was a common thing but there were still dangers. In a prelude interview with Stephen king before he was to speak with umasslowell he said “the genre has always been looked upon as something to low case and its true it does appeal to low case including my own, it’s also an extremely adaptable genre I think people come to it because it surges a kind of mirror for anxieties in any particular time” (umasslowell. Stephen King: Thoughts On the Horror Genre. YouTube. YouTube 20, Nov, 2012) These anxieties are apparent themes in king’s novels such as pet Sematary which primary theme is death it also deals with the fear that most parents have such as a death of a child which is the main plot point in the book about how the father tries to cope and how eventually his grief drove him