Report Of Stephen King

& Books Essay, Research Paper

Stephen King is a very well known writer who wrote many best-selling books. He wrote both horror and drama books, but even the drama books seemed to have a disturbing edge to them. Stephen Kings mind is probably very twisted yet very interesting judging by the stories he wrote. His creativity probably came from his childhood. As a child he grew up on a farm, giving him lots of time to use his imagination. His creativity started as a child. He would often play cruel pranks on his brother that would scare him for days, but these pranks where not normal childhood pranks, they where very much thought out and most likely took a lot of time to prepare. In his free time, when he was not trying to scare his brother, he liked to write. He often wrote short stories, coming up with one scary monster after another. This creativity and love of writing is still with him today. Many of the stories that he wrote turned out to be movies; Carrie, Cojo, The Stand, and Pet Sematary to name a few. The two books that I read by Stephen King are part one of The Green Mile: The Two Dead Girls, and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

Stephen king was born on September 21st 1947 in Portland Maine General Hospital. Stephen had an older brother who was born and adopted in 1945. Stephen was raised mostly by his mother Nellie Roth Pillsbury. His father Donald King went out for a pack of cigarettes when King was still a toddler and never returned. Stephen lived mostly between Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Massachusetts and Maine with his mother and her family. Finally King settled with his mother and brother in Durham, Maine. Here in Durham, Stephen and David started their schooling. As a child Stephen was fearful of many things. His three major fears were insects, rats, and most of all death. Many people feel that his fears as a child may have encouraged and inspired his writings. When Stephen was twelve years old he had his first experience with writing. He and his brother published a little newspaper that they called Dave s Rag . While King was in high school he published a collection of 18 short stories called People, Places, and Things . Also, while he was in high school he wrote his first short story that was seen by the public in a magazine review. The story was called I Was A Teenage Grave Robber and it consisted of 6,000 words. Then in 1966 King graduated high school and went to the University of Maine at Orono. His first year there he sold his fist novel called The Glass Floor for about 35 dollars. Then in 1970 King graduated from the university with a bachelor s degree in science and in English and certificate to teach in high school. Right after collage Stephen took many small jobs including pumping gas. During theses times he would continue to write his stories and soon he began to make money by selling them. Then on January second, about one year after he graduated collage, Stephen married a young women named Tabitha Jane Spruce. Soon after his marriage King took a job at Hampton Academy and they moved to Hermon, a small town just west of Bangor, Maine. King soon started to write a book about a young teenage girl named Carietta. This book he named Carrie. After a few pages he threw the book away. Luckily his wife found and read the story and encouraged him to finish it. When he completed the book they sent it to a company called Doubleday. Doubleday bought the book and soon hundreds of copies where sold. The money that they received for this book allowed Stephen King to quit his job as a teacher and become a full time writer. Stephen King wrote numerous short stories, novels, and series books. Many of his novels have become movies. Over 300million copies of his novels have been sold. Many people call him the master of horror.

Today King lives in Bangor, Main with his wife and three kids, Owen Philip, Joseph Hillstrom, and Naomi Rachel. Today Stephen still writes, and is coming out with a new book called DreamCatcher. This will be his first full-length novel in three years.

The first story I read was part one of The Green Mile: The Two Dead Girls. This story took place in a jail for the murders and rapists that were sentenced to death. The Green Mile was the hallway with the dirty green rug that the prisoners had to walk down to get to the electric chair. The story was about a very large man named John Coffey. John Coffey was a little slow in the head. He was brought to the prison and sentenced to death because he raped and murdered two young girls. As he said he did not mean to do it and he couldn t stop him self. This was true. One night he went out and took too little girls of the back porch where they were sleeping and brought them into the woods. When the parents woke up and found them missing they got a police and a bunch of dogs to track him down. When they found him he was sitting in the woods crying with one bloody girl under each arm. He was very confused and did not try to run for fight when they arrested him. They took him to the jail and put him up to walk the green mile. This book basically introduced the characters and setting for the other five parts. Another character introduced was Mr. Jingles, a small mouse which, every one watches with interest. One of the cellmate’s says that he owns and trained Mr. Jingles. But, this of course in not true.

The second book I read was The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon this story takes place