Rusty Crowder Period 2 Quarter 2 Commentary #1 The Long Walk by Stephen King Pages 1-25 (Chapter 1) The story starts off with the main character, Raymond Davis Garraty. He is a 16-year-old boy from Maine. The only one competing from Maine, where the long walk takes place, and is supported by big crowds of people.
In Slaughterhouse 5, the often use of literary elements show how much of a insane and twisted novel it really is. For example, Vonnegut would use satire when talking about war. Satire uses irony and humor to ridicule social conversations. Primarily, this allows the reader to show how destructive of a war is going on meanwhile laughing at some the aspects it contains.
In the essays, “Reading to Write” by Stephen King, “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie, “Learning to Read” Malcolm X, and “Learning to Write” by Frederick Douglas have three things in common. In each essay Reading has contributed towards the authors life leading to benefit from learning to read, allowing them to leave a legacy behind. In each essay the authors has thought their self how unlike Frederick Douglass. For Stephen King, reading has done a lot for him. King stated, “Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones” (221).
According to Lemony Snicket, “[You should] never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them” and writer Stephen King presumably would agree. In On Writing, pages one forty-seven through one fifty, King uses diction, critical and ardent tones and figurative language, to highlight the significance of reading and how it benefits a writer. King utilizes diction to persuade aspiring writers to read regularly. He writes, “I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in.” (147) “Waiting rooms were made for books—of course!
Stephen King uses multiple literary devices in his novel On Writing to convey the feel of a fictional novel, though it is based on facts from his life. King effectively uses these devices to convey his theme of persevering through adversity to become a greater writer and person. A major technique used in his writing is imagery that comes in many forms, precisely in this passage. There was a sharp smell of alcohol. A clank as the ear doctor opened his sterilizer.
Throughout our educational careers reading literary fiction has been one of the most important aspects of our learning experience and most students would agree; it’s definitely not a waste of time. In Jordan Bates’s article, “Three Cognitive Benefits of Reading Fiction,” he refutes Noel Gallagher's comment that reading literary fiction, in summary, is a lost cause. Bates goes into detail about how reading literary fiction improves many aspects of life including social perception, emotional intelligence, empathy, and more at ease with ambiguity. He’s able to convince his reader of this by successfully using three rhetorical appeals throughout his argument. Even though Jordan Bates uses ethos as his strongest appeal by his knowledge of reading
All accomplished writer share a common trait, vast vocabularies with a word to fit every occasion. Stephen King, claims that all competent writers must read. He highlights vocabulary as one of the tools writers garner through reading. In On Writing, he said that every writer has a toolbox and in that toolbox are his/her tools for writing. On the top level where the most basic tools are stored, vocabulary is the topmost and there is one way to improve it; ”Put your vocabulary on the top shelf of your toolbox, and make no conscious effort to improve it.(You’ll be doing that as you read, of course)”, (King 117).
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it” (Bradbury 55). In the fictional universe Bradbury has created, books have become a weapon and are seen as dangerous. Why? Because the well-read man has more knowledge and is smarter about the way the world works.
Close your eyes and imagine taking a bite of your favorite food. Now, close your eyes again, and imagine the same scenario while simultaneously being smacked in the face. It is scientifically impossible to feel multiple emotions at once, and in his story, Battleground, Stephen King attempts to do so. The story BattleGround is confusing and underdeveloped, but it has potential. Opening with a hitman coming back from a day at work, stephen king creates a mysterious vibe when a box, addressed to him, appears at the main character's hotel.
The book Storm of the Century by Stephen King there is a small town in Maine called Little Tall Island. A gigantic hurricane comes with a bitter cold. All the townsfolk are preparing by visiting the grocery store of our main character Mike Anderson. While everyone is preparing for the “Storm of the Century” Martha Claridon is sitting at home watching the weather channel when someone knocks on the door. Martha opens the door to be brutally murdered by a cane with a wolf’s head at the top.
Stephen King’s birthplace is Portland, Maine. His parents are Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. Stephen King is a university of Maine graduate, he graduated with a B.S. in English and a minor in dramatics. King has several major achievements for his literary masterpieces. King is most known for writing novels, short stories and screenplays; not many people know about the children’s book he published.
“I was twelve, nearly thirteen, when I first saw a dead person” (1 King). The author, Stephen, King, is foreshadowing what is going to occur in the story, The Body. In The Body, Gordie, the main character, and his group of friends go on a quest to find Ray Brower. Ray Brower is a young guy who was tragically killed by a train. The friends are able to find Ray’s body because Vern tells what he overheard in his brother’s conversation.
In Thomas King 's autobiographical novel, The Truth About Stories takes a narrative approach in telling the story of the Native American, as well as Thomas King 's. The stories within the book root from the obstacles that the Thomas King had to face during his years in high school and his post-university life. These stories are told in a matter that uses rhetorical devices such as personal anecdotes & comparisons. "You 'll Never Believe What Happened" Is Always a Great Way to Start is about the importance, potential, and dangers of stories, specifically those of creation stories and how they can shape a culture, with the aim to share King 's urgency for social change with his readers King 's informal tone, lighthearted jokes, and effort to make his writing follow the style of native oral tradition as closely as possible, all help the reader understand the type of narrative he believes would be most beneficial for the foundation of a society. His unique style allows for the use of personal anecdotes and requires that he breaks the proverbial fourth wall to communicate with the reader directly, to create the conversational feel of the oral tradition.
With a good book you can travel anywhere or wherever you want, but with a bad book you can’t go anywhere. Reading is not always the funnest thing, but it is important to our life in many scenarios like driving and going to places. If nobody could read people would be driving all around the city lost and keep on crashing since they can’t read the signs “STOP” and “SCHOOL ZONE” , “SPEED LIMIT 55” and “ROUTE EXIT 306” ,etcetera you get the point. Initially not all books are good, some are just bad in general, some have a lot of defects, but all books have at least one defect I think we have all read that one boring book. One reason books are very important to our life is imagine you're lost in a forest and there's a bunch of signs and one says “TIGER PIT” another one says “EXIT” and, “FREE CANDY”.
According to Stephen King (1988), there were two rather different approaches to account planning from the outset, and the range has widened since. He suggests that account planners can be positioned on the following spectrum: King argues that at the one end of the scale are the ‘grand strategists’ – intellectuals, perhaps verging on economists, seeking to rise above the fray and see the broader scheme of things. At the other extreme, meanwhile, we find the ‘ad tweakers’ – more like qualitative researchers, analysing advertisements, handling group discussions and justifying the work of the creative team to clients.
