How Did Stephen King Influence Society

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Biography of Stephen king

First, of all Stephen king is a famous writer and he inspired and influenced society by doing many things. By 1947 stephen king would be born in a not-so-wealthy house with his family in Durham Maine. By 1971 he became a high school teacher. He taught English and drawing. He made $6,400 per year. (Aja romano) In 1973, Stephen king married his first wife Tabitha, they lived in a trailer in Hampden Maine. Tabitha supported Stephen to write stories because he just couldn't stop telling very interesting stories. She encouraged him to start a writing career. And she would refuse to let Stephen give up on his project. (Aja Romano). Stephen's first book Carrie was a big hit. He sold the book for $2,900 and the paperbacks alone made $400,000. ( Aja Romano). And this is how Stephen king has influenced society to tell us not to give up on our dreams and life goals. …show more content…

One of his ways is that Stephen never gave up on his projects and encouraged others to work hard and achieve their goals. ( Aja Romano). Stephen also connects his characters to real life by giving the characters some types of trauma such as physical trauma, social trauma, mental trauma, and more. He makes readers feel what the characters in the story think with their type of trauma and sometimes even makes readers feel bad for a fictional character. ( Aja Romano). King also spends a lot of time on the characters' interior lives often jumping between different points of characters throughout his novel. ( Nathaniel Rich). King puts kids in his stories, from being nerdy to being overweight and enduring acne. He does this to show what the kids with these conditions go through in real life. He also uses kids as characters in his story to point out that the kids are going through enough as it is, and to make the reader feel bad for the kids. ( Nathaniel Rich). And this is why Stephen King has inspired