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This 5 page paper specific attention to Stephen King’s themes, plot and other aspects; it gives an opinion of his work as well. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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stale to not wanting to write any longer, but he continues to produce some of the most popular fiction in the world. This paper discusses his work with specific attention
to his themes, plot and other aspects; it gives an opinion of his work as well. Discussion If theres a secret to Kings success, it must be that he knows
what scares readers: "Throughout a prolific array of novels, short stories, and screen work in which elements of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and humor meld, King deftly arouses fear from
dormancy" (Stephen King, 2006). Critics frequently "trivialize" the horror genre and insist that it is not as serious as mainstream fiction, but King submits that "most of the critics who
review popular fiction have no understanding of it as a whole" (Stephen King, 2006). King argues that if the critics who find horror unworthy of their time had lived in
the 19th century, they would have called Edgar Allan Poe the "great American hack" (Stephen King, 2006). He says that horror is not now, and has never been, a "hack
market"; the genre is "one of the most delicate known to man, and it must be handled with great care and more than a little love" (Stephen King, 2006). King
is clearly up to the task. One of the most important aspects of Kings work, and which helps him to succeed, is the way in which he takes "ordinary emotional
situations--marital stress, infidelity, peer-group-acceptance worries--and translates them into violent tales of vampires and ghosts" (Stephen King, 2006). He takes the most ordinary places-a hotel hallway for instance-and transforms them into
places of utter terror. In a very large sense, he uses the trappings of everyday life as symbols of American life and culture, and the struggle to face "the horrors
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