The Reaper

’s Image Essay, Research Paper


The Reaper’s Image


This story is about two men who were transporting an antique mirrow from


the first floor of an old museum to the fifth. Their names were Spangler and


Carlin. This mirror had a history of being haunted, and some people would look


into the mirror and see a hooded figure standing behind them. This figure was


presumed to be Death, and whenever someone would see this figure they were never


seen again. Carlin spends the whole story trying to convice Spangler that this


is really true, but Spangler just calls Carlin crazy. Finally, near the end of


the story, Spangler looks in the mirror and sees a dark inperfection in the


corner, which he mistakes for friction tape. When Carlin tells him that there


is no friction tape on the mirror, Spangler becomes sick and leaves for the


bathroom. The story ends with Carlin waiting for Spangler to return.


I thought that this story was very good, because it started off really


slow and worked it’s way into a really interesting plot. I liked the end


because it never really finished, it left the ending up to the reader. This


seems to be a common theme in a lot of Stephen King’s stories. He likes to


leave the reader in suspense, and keep them wondering.


Here There Be Tygers


This story is about a little boy named Charles who is in elementary


school. He has to go to the bathrrom really bad, but he is afraid to ask


because the teacher does not like him. Finally the teacher sees him squirming


and asks him if he needs to use the restroom. He says yes and is very


embarassed in front of the class, so he leaves quickly. When he steps into the


bathroom, he sees a tiger lying in the corner, and it looks hungry. He goes


back outside and sits there for a while wondering what he should do. His friend


Kenny finally comes up to him because his teacher noticed that he was gone a


long time. Charles tells him that there is a tiger in the bathroom, but Kenny


does not believe him. Kenny goes into the bathroom and does not come back out.


Then even later, his teacher comes and starts yelling at him. She goes into the


bathroom and she doesn’t come back out either. The story ends with Charles


coming back to class and reading a story about a rodeo.


This is another story that ends really abruptly. It was strange because


after knowing that his friend and his teacher were both killed by a tiger, he


goes back to class and begins reading his book. I thought that this was a


decent story, although I didn’t enjoy it as much as some of the others. The one


part that I did find interesting though, was the fact that it never really


explained why a tiger would be lingering in a bathroom anyway. I like that


about these short stories, they never really make a lot of sense.


Cain Rose Up


This story is about a guy named Garrish who had just finished finals in


college and was preparing to go home. His friend and him had taken the test


just minutes before the story began, and both of them felt as if they had not


done a good job. Garrish was a 4.0 student, never doing bad in anything. His


room was always organized and it s

eemed as though he had his entire life


together. But the night before the final, Garrish went down and got his gun and


hid it in his dorm room. After the test, he sits up in his room and begins


shooting people with the idea that if you don’t eat the world, the world eats


you. The story ends with Garrish shooting people, and a bunch of Garrish’s


friends standing outside his door, and they all think he killed himself.


This was a really odd story. It starts off really normal, with Garrish


speaking with his classmates about a test that they just took. He goes to his


room like everything is normal, and then all of a sudden he begins quoting Cain


and shooting people from his window. A very odd story, if not somewhat


disturbing, much like most of his other short stories.


The Wedding Gig


This story is about a man who was in a jazz group of five musicians.


One day while they are playing in their usual club, a ganster comes in and pulls


aside the main character. The gangster Mike Scollay asks the main character if


he and his band will play for the wedding of his sister. He will pay two


hundred dollars for this, which was a lot of money in the 1930’s. When asked


what the catch is, Scollay proceeds to tell him that his sister is extremely fat,


and she is marrying an Italian while she is Irish. Scollay warns him that he


hates it when people laugh, so the main character tells the band this before


they go to the wedding. At the wedding everything was going fine until about


8pm, when someone from a rival gang of Greeks came in and delivered a message


from the boss. He said that this marriage was a joke, and everyone laughed at


his sister. Scollay runs out and gets killed by the Greeks waiting outside.


Then the story moves into the future, where it turns out that the over wieght


sister became a crime boss and was responsible for the death of theGreek boss,


and overturned two other rival gangs.


This was the one story that was really different from the other ones.


He wrote this story in a more understandable fashion. I think that the main


theme to this story was revenge, because after recieving ridicule and having her


brother killed, she goes on a killing rampage and gets back at all the people


that crossed her at one point in time or another.


Morning Deliveries


This story is about a sick twisted milkman who enjoys savotaging the


items that he delivers to peoples houses. This story is different because it


kept describing very minute details, such as the ant finding food, or the


squirell finding some material for a nest. This milkman seems perfectly normal,


but as the story progressing he starts putting tarantulas in chocolate milk and


poisonous gases inside “empty” milk bottles. This story was very strange and


confused me.


This story was extremely strange and somewhat disturbing. It didn’t make any


sense to me, and out of the blue some psychotic milkman is dropping tarantulas


in peoples chocolate milk. This story is a perfect example of Stephen King’s


sick, yet very interesting mind. It was really odd, but I thought it was a


decent play short story.


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