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" Salem's Lot" by Stephen King
Analytical Essay # 20523
" Salem's Lot" by Stephen King
Looks at the ways the author builds tension & uses it to develop his story.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages) |
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1993
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" This study will examine the ways that Stephen King builds tension in his novel Salem's Lot, analyzing three scenes which are successful and representative in terms of tension-building. The study will consider whether the scenes help the author develop his theme and/or story.The horror story depends on tension, for tension is a matter of time and action passing. We know that some dreaded thing awaits the characters in a horror story --- and awaits us as readers insofar as we identify with the characters and their situation. But the tension is required if that waiting is to be effective as a device of horror. The reader must be teased, must be drawn into the story a step at a time, drawn nearer and nearer the dreadful horror, knowing he is being drawn and participating in his own fright with the author. The horror that eventually.."
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" Salem's Lot" by Stephen King (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Salem's-Lot-by-Stephen-King/20523
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"" Salem's Lot" by Stephen King" 15 January 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Salem's-Lot-by-Stephen-King/20523>
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