![]() ![]() ![]() King’s children cling to their youthful idealism and romantic vigor, but these elements are always imperiled by Almost every Stephen King adolescent is under siege many of them must undergo rites of passage in which the innocence of adolescence must confront adult realities, a journey that is always fraught with violence and danger. Some of these children, such as Carrie White ( Carrie), Charlie McGee ( Firestarter), and Danny Torrance ( The Shining), are gifted with supernatural abilities others, such as Gordie Lachance ( Stand by Me) and Marty Coslaw ( Silver Bullet), are endowed with imaginative capacities that make them exceptional beings, particularly when they are compared to the adults against whom these children must alternately flee and combat. ![]() They inhabit a landscape of dread, loneliness, and a primal fear of abandonment. They may appear psychologically adjusted on the outside, but their young lives are often terribly troubled. They may live with parents who supply them with material comforts, but they seldom experience love from these people. The cinemagraphic children of Stephen King are simultaneously blessed and cursed, but mostly they are lost. ![]()
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