Insomnia: About The Author

About The Author

The author of the book I'm reading, Insomnia, is Stephen King. Stephen King is an author who mainly writes horror stories. Generally his books are over 110,000 words. His longest book being The Stand with 1152 pages. he has been writing since 1974 and is still writing and publishing books today. Some of his most popular books are; The Shining, Revival, Under the Dome, The Stand, and Carrie.

Many of his books are still popular today because of movies(The Shining & Carrie) and some of his books are so long they got turned into TV shows.(Under the Dome) He has had _ of his book that have been turned into movies. In general he says he's reasonably happy with the way his books turn out. However, when asked about one of his most popular movies, The Shining, he says it didn't turn out quite like he wanted.

Stephen King Answers Questions From Fans

Stephen King began writing when he was in school for a school newspaper. He even sold short stories that he wrote based of movies to some of his classmates. He went to college at The University of Maine. Throughout college he wrote, published, and sold short stories. He then worked as a teacher while still selling short stories to magazines and columns. 

After publishing his first book, Carrie, he moved around Maine while publishing more books like 'Salem's Lot, The Shining, and The Stand. After that he taught a creative writing class and wrote and published his first and longest series, The Dark Tower books. And has continued writing many more books up till now only taking a break in 2002 after a car accident. Some books he's published recently are Revival, A Good Marriage, and Mr Mercedes.  He doesn't publish as many books today as he did in the 1970's through 1990's but the books he publishes are still just as amazing as when he was younger.

Fahrenheit 451 Theme Handout

Group Members: Connie Mi, Andres Simoya, Julietta Collins, Adam Kemme

Bell 7

Theme Statement: People should take action, rather than watch a society falter and crumble.

Timeline:

Montag is very ignorant about the horrors of his old society.

Montag started to walk away when he realized that Clarisse was gone

Montag risks his life to meet with Faber, who is reluctant to start a plan.

Montag convinces him otherwise, and they communicate using a radio.

Angry with his life, Montag kills Beatty when they burn down his house.

Montag ran away from the Hound, even though the rest of the city was on the lookout for him.

Montag leaves the old society to start a new one.

Quotes:

Part 1	Part 2	Part 3
“‘You can’t ever have my books,’ she said. ‘You know the law,’ said Beatty”	“ ‘Those who don’t build must burn. It’s as old as history and juvenile delinquents. ‘ ‘So that’s what I am.’ ‘There’s some of it in all of us.’”	“We all made the right kind of mistakes, or we wouldn’t be here.”
The woman lost her life, sacrificing herself for the betterment of society. Her actions even provoked Montag to question his life.	“Montag did not look back at his wife as he went trembling along the hall of the kitchen, where he stood a long time.”

This theme is important to the understanding of the story because the idea that people shouldn’t just watch a society falter and crumble is why Montag decides to illegally take books from the burning houses and try to spread the knowledge in those books to other people causing him to become a fugitive and find Granger and other people with his same goal, to stop society from crumbling.

This theme is important today because if the people do not contribute ideas then society will crumble compared  to a democratic society where you can contribute your own ideas without any consequences involved.