Analysis Of Pet Sematary And It By Stephen King

The family unit is typically seen as a group of people who are strong, and who stick by one another; however, when horrendous things happen to people inside of the family, what impact can that have on them? The well-known horror author, Stephen King, answers this question in many of his books. King is known for having the ability to inflict fear on his readers; making them afraid of things which lurk in the dark or under the bed. However, in his books Pet Sematary and IT, he doesn’t just attempt to scare his readers with a menacing ghost, but rather he hits closer to home by attack the beloved family unit by showing his readers the things that happen when a family is presented with unimaginable horrors. King tears the family to pieces when they cannot bear to deal with their problems, and forces either the adults or the children to deal with the supernatural beings that are the cause of the horror with the hopes of bringing the family back together. Stephen King shows that not all families are strong, and that sometimes, no matter how hard the protagonist tries, there are certain horrors in the world that can tear a family apart and keep them apart. To begin, Stephen Edwing King, was born on September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine to his parents, Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. He later graduated from the University of Maine and then

However, even though King’s life sounds normal, it was not. Stephen King has never lead a polished and perfect life, in fact, he was an alcoholic and used cocaine for a time back in the seventies. He is clean now, but the horrors that were his own were slowly ripping at his family, and possibly that is why he wrote about families being torn apart because it was his way of dealing with his own personal family issues. “You just try to balance things out as best you can. But little by little, the family life starts to show cracks” (qtd. In