EN 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Telepathy, Typewriter, Ghost Ship
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King claims that writing is telepathy, concerned with the specificity of. The shining when dick and danny have the shining; the book is about writing in more ways than just explicitly with jack as a writer. Da(cid:374)(cid:374)y is a (cid:449)riter/o(cid:373)(cid:374)is(cid:272)ie(cid:374)t (cid:374)arrator; li(cid:373)ited i(cid:374) that he does(cid:374)"t always understand things, adds suspense. Rhythm of horror is shock and its absence. The importance of the corridor/hallway in the hotel which suggests limited possibilities of escape, a maze with no exit. Important that danny switches directions from going forward through the maze to retracing his steps and going backwards: colour scheme. Red death, (cid:862)redru(cid:373),(cid:863) all the (cid:271)lood gushing down the stairs. Inter-scenes with writing on it, almost like chapters; indicates chronology: usually violent or stark, accompanied by a loud sound. Cross-dissolve in the car, talking about cannibalism: little danny already knows about cannibalism, not fazed by it because he saw it on tv.
