My book is Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King. I think my authors style is more mellow but realistic. King describes very in times vulgar events although speaks of them like nothing. He makes events like rape sound like nothing ever happened. The genre of the book is drama and it takes place in a prison and is in the point of view of a murderer sentence to life in prison. Knowing that, I feel that the author’s style fits perfectly with the genre and setting. Since all these words are being spoken out of a long term prisoner’s mouth, this man has probably seen everything or have experienced a lot of what he is describing, so these events like rape and murder aren’t any surprise or shock to him, there nothing out of the ordinary. Since, Stephen King writes like this I enjoy the book a lot more than I usually would. This is because he captures the realism of what is happening and the setting it is happening in. When he writes the way he does I can actually imagine a prisoner speaking to me. Although, after watching the movie first I already have a voice like Morgan Freeman in my head, but Stephen King still captures the sound and tone of an experienced prisoner and I really like that. I personally think Stephen King perfected the style for this genre of stories. I have no suggestions for his style I really think he perfected it.




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