Stephen King The Reaper's Image Summary

The reaper’s image is purposed to entertain the reader. There's no depth to the story or development. It does not exemplify any of the themes from the article. It can be inferenced that people go missing because of the Delver Glass. But there's no standing up to an opposing force, or about creativity. The story is simplistic but vivid. Stephen King can entertain his audience because of how descriptive his writing is. In the reaper’s image, the narrator uses imagery and detailed descriptions to give the reader a sense of depth. King’s writing is so descriptive that the reader can envision a movie in their head. In the Reaper’s Image, King uses long detailed descriptions like, “The gable room was explosively hot, lit only by one cobwebby, many-angled

window that filtered the hard outside light into a dirty milky glow. The looking-glass was propped at an angle to the light, catching most of it and reflecting a pearly patch onto the far wall. It had been bolted securely into a wooden frame.” This quote exemplifies the amount of detail that King writes with, King goes into great detail on something that wasn’t necessary to the story, but the amount of detail shows how he wants the scene to be as accurate as possible. King wants the reader to have the exact same mental image as his own. King writes with the great detail to entertain his readers, King is an amazing storyteller because he aims to have the story play out like a movie in the reader’s head. Stephen King’s stories display themes with important meanings, but the Reaper’s Image was to purely entertain the reader, the Reaper’s Image is a short story that aims to entertain the reader with King’s unique elements of imagery.