" (quoted in Matthews: 1982) Gray Matter similarly deals with addiction. However in this case there are two protagonists, one is a victim of addiction and the other may become a victim of this victim. Henry is the person who owns a local store from where Richie's son buys beers for his father. Richie is a recluse who is living on disability funds. He is completely confined to his room and rarely ever comes out. No one has seen him for years. The only person who knows about his current state is his son. The little boy tells Henry how Richie has turned into an abominable blob of flesh consuming beer and dead cats. Once this is known, Henry and other local men decide to deliver beer to Richie themselves. When the reach his apartment, they smell a strong stench. When Richie steps out, everyone gasps in horror as they discover that Richie is no longer a human but has turned into a blob of fungus. In the end as everyone runs away, Henry stays and pulls out his pistol to shoot the creature. However the story ends with the readers not knowing how survived the...
In these stories we witness brutality at its peak as quitters Inc. tries to employ violent tactics to achieve high success rate. In the second story, brutality appears in a more subtle form. It's one man's violent attack on himself and the society through addiction that nearly turned him into a beast. Violence takes a new form in this story. This man is responsible for missing people in the community and Henry realizes that he might be eating them. In both stories the common factor is addiction. This addiction is responsible for violence. However in the two cases, protagonists do not have the same role to perform.
Their marriage and mutual love of animals makes this a situation that bespeaks long lasting happiness. One of the family pet is a black cat that is fairly large and the man's favorite. This cat is well liked, and unlike the disposition of cats that is aloof and independent, this cat follows his master wherever he goes, even out doors. The wife based on some superstitions has her misgivings
King's The Man In The Black Suit The modern concept of self, and the human trait of self-awareness, have been a part of humanity since recorded history -- as has the notion of good and evil, although clearly on a sliding scale. However, it was not until the Middle Ages that the concept of the self in relation to the choices of good and evil coalesced, moving away from the supernatural
Stephen King's Works as a Reflection of Today's Society Stephen King is one of the most successful writers today. He has published hundreds of works, including novels, novellas, and short stories. Many of his works have been turned into movies that have proved just as popular. Is this simply because he is a good writer or simply because he writes horror? Considering that there are many other writers of horror that
The supernatural in Carrie is real and is expressed primarily through Carrie's supernatural powers. This power, telekinesis, is presented in a very realistic form in the novel, presenting us with a fear that is real as well as supernatural. For example, King accentuates the supernatural with realism with an excerpt from an article printed in the Tulane University Press that writes that Carrie's "ability to move objects by effort of
Greenblatt also provides us with some thought into what be hidden in Shakespeare's strange epitaph. Perspective is also gleaned on many of Shakespeare's works, including the Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear IV. He also goes into how Shakespeare only had one rival, Christopher Marlowe until 1957, when Ben Johnson emerged. The two men were similarly in age and envy. The two men "circled warily, watching with intense
hits the bestseller list with Stephen King's name on it, Pet Sematary is a book full of horrors, the kind of book designed to make you draw up your feet and tuck them firmly underneath you while you are reading it just in case anything truly vile should find its way into your home and begin creeping across your floor in search of a tender bit of young, uncooked
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