... a key, and a rose. Observations: This piece relays a feeling of mystery and intrigue through its use of color and actual objects integrated within it. A young boy with black hair and a suit with a backpack is seen reaching for a key on the ground. However, his attention is focused on a rose a short distance in front ... of him with a golden universe revolving in the middle. Ghost-like faces surround the boy and the rose heightening the supernatural feel of the scene. In ... addition, floating throughout the scene is what appears to be fire flies that enhance the surreal setting of the ...

• Word Count: 271
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... as gruesome and horrible the death may be, King depicts even the weakest and simplest of characters. He then moves on to the next character, Ralphie Glick, which is a young boy who does not have the knowledge to protect himself from the horrible and evil events that is happening around him. "Now I bring you spoiled meat and reeking flesh. I have made ... of decaying bodies. He was somewhat a special character because he had actually had more than one terrifying experience in the Marsten house. The first occurrence was when he was a young boy entering the house as an initiation in a grou...

• Word Count: 1453
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... her three year old daughter Harper. Later that same night, Ross finally makes it to Hopewell. The Gypsy Morph has stopped changing and has settled in the form of a little boy. Bennett disappears, and when Nest discovers she is missing, she takes the children home from a Christmas party and she is attacked by a demon sent by Gask. When Nest is attacked ... demon attacks the first time and doesn't succeed, Gask has another option. That option unfortunately works, and now Gask has both of the children. He is unaware that the little boy is the Gypsy Morph so he wants to trade the children f...

• Word Count: 2201
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

... a car. A year later Ruth introduced King to horror novels, and he also experienced his first horror movie. His mother took him on her date to see The Creature from the Black Lagoon. In 1958, King, who was 11, moved to the small town of Durham, Maine. Ruth had moved her boys there so she could take care of her elderly parents ... . They planned on staying for a year and in that time he wrote another book, Cujo. King got the idea for this story from an article he had read about a little boy who was killed by a Saint Bernard and an experience with a motorcycle mechanics giant growling Saint...

• Word Count: 1738
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... in King's books are always nice guys and girls with problems, just like us. Today, and long, long into the past, we live in a world which is, unfortunately, not as black and white as King's novels. There is no real "good and evil" scenario in our world, there are only perspectives. In King's imagined world, in his little, sleepy Maine towns ... a great story. King's newest novel, "From a Buick 8", is more different still. While the supernatural certainly plays a role in it, it is a secondary role. The real theme of the book is a boy struggling to come to terms with the death of his fath...

• Word Count: 2261
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School