elate Gordie with the deer. The deer represents nature and nature is something that is innocent and uncorrupted. When the deer runs away that is the exact moment the theme of the story is conveyed, “fleeting innocence” (Mayer 59) Since we connected the deer with Gordie through imagery we know that Gordie is losing his innocence with this journey.Another film technique that King utilizes in his work is the actual structure of the stories. Like films, the images are conveyed to viewers in a way that leaves the image in their head. King knows how to place an image into his reader’s head very well. When writing his stories King tries not to overburden the reader with too much of an image. King will let the image set into the reader’s head so that they can take the image and interpret it. For example, when writing The Shining King wrote it in such a way that each chapter is set in one place with a limited scene in that location and letting each new scene have a different location. (Bare Bones 137) This structure very much resembles the structure of a screenplay as seen above which gives more evidence of how King thinks like a director. When reading the screenplay each scene would be set by its’ location first, so the reader would have a setting in their head. This style helps the reader focus on the image at hand and not be confused with multiple images. This style is evident in “The Body” as well, with each scene allocated to one chapter. Most of the time when a new chapter is introduced a new location is introduced as well.King likes to show his images so that the reader can get more out of the reading, given the reader can interpret the image. Analyzing images made from words can be difficult at time and might require a good imagination, but with King that task is as hard as it seems. Reading King’s works, he fills them with enough description to create a solid image in the read...
