Fear In Stephen King's The Mist

The Mist is a novella based around the theme of fear and how people react to fear. The novella mainly takes place inside of a market, because they are enclosed by a supernatural mist. The characters in the story don't actually know what is outside the store but fear causes them to never leave. It also causes them to think of the worst possible situations. Fear also causes people to lose trust in their peers that they used to be closely acquainted with, but now it causes them to fear each other. Fear is a prominent idea throughout the whole novella. The Drayton family lives in Bridgton, a small town in Maine; the family consists of Davide Drayton, his son Billy, and his wife Stephanie. One night a thunderstorm had hit their town and the

The mysterious mist caused the visibility to go to almost zero, but even worse the mist brought things along with it, the mist had vicious creatures inside of it. The story mainly takes place in a local grocery store where a small number of people are locked inside of it, including David and Billy. Two soldiers also are in enclosed in the grocery store from a nearby military base, also part of the “Arrowhead Project”. The story continues as the people try to escape the store and try to figure out what the mist is. Stephen King, the author of this novella, is known greatly for his use of horror and fear. He was born in 1947 in Portland maine. He is a very famous novelist, screenwriter, actor, television producer, musician, and many more things. He is most known for horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy books. Stephen King uses literary devices foreshadowing and imagery to express the constant

Imagery is using figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses. Usually it is believed that imagery makes use of particular words that create visual representation of ideas in our minds. One main way imagery is shown throughout the book is when the first people get a look at the creatures from the mist. “I looked down and saw the tentacle around Norm's waist working into his skin. The suckers were eating him where his shirt had pulled out of his pants. Blood, as red as his missing apron, began to seep out of the trench the pulsing tentacle had made for itself.”(38) This is displaying the first time the characters see the creatures that are in the mist. King uses very good descriptive words and voice to create a picture in your head or an image. He talks about how the blood seeps out of the trench the pulsing tentacle had made in Norm. The use of imagery in this specific text puts a very vivid image in the reader’s mind and physically makes them create the situation in your mind--it also is a representation of the fear that the characters have developed up until this point. Because of how King uses imagery to describe the creatures the readers can imagine how scary and fearful the characters would be and how frightened they would feel if they were ever faced with those creatures in person. King