Assignment1-3-2: Journal Article Analysis-Journal Article Paper

I Have the Whole World in My Hands…Now What? : Power, Control, Responsibility, and the Baby Boomers in Stephen King’s Fiction

            This essay will contain the summary of this article and the article’s main points. I will thoroughly analyze this article and state what it is about. I will discuss why I agree with Stephen King’s main points of this particular article. Furthermore, I will describe why this article is important in my opinion.

Article’s Summary and Main Points

            This article is about the similarities between Stephen King’s characters in his movies and novels and the generation known as the “Baby Boomers.” The questions concerning social consciousness and activity involve four primary steps: the call to take action, the acquisition of means to accomplish a particular end, considerations of potential failure, and rationalizing the motivation for involvement. Through these four categories, or lenses of analysis and interpretation, the pattern that becomes evident in Stephen King’s fiction is that several of his characters face extraordinary circumstances that create significant actions that are to be fulfilled by those characters. Even though the characters may face abuse, death, or the destruction of the universe at any stage of a decision-making process, Stephen King’s characters are confronted by evil that somehow haunts their lives. They are given time to make a choice and take action. Then, they think whether or not they should get involved, all the while contemplating failure. In conclusion, the choices that are presented to those characters that are created by Stephen King reflect the choices that the Baby Boomers had to make in that particular generation (McAleer, 2011).

Analysis of This Article

           This article is that about an interesting author known as Stephen King and his generations of novels and movies such as Pet Sematary and The Dark Tower. The article does mention how King relates his characters to that of the people in the generation known as the Baby Boomers. It states that King used his writings as a way to be a critic that condemns his generation, which is the generation known as the Baby Boomers. King mentions that his generation made up horrors to cope with the real ones of that day and age (McAleer, 2011).

Why Do I Agree with Stephen King’s Main Points that are Present in this Article?

            In my opinion, Stephen King’s main points are somewhat true. We create delusions to deal with horrific events that occur every day in the world. If a person can prepare themselves for disaster and fear, they then can maybe face the bad that unfortunately occurs every day in the world. The more one faces their fears of the unknown that is present in fictional novels and movies, the better that they can cope with those fears in real life (McAleer, 2011).

Why is this Article Important?

            This article is important to me because to me facing my fears is very important. I am the type of person who likes to face those things that scare me over and over if may be, until that fear subsides. Why would I want to live in fear and let that fear consume my life? Fear is a part of life and in all reality, man creates fear. Mankind is not born to fear, we are taught how to fear. Consider this, if we are taught how to fear, can’t we be taught how to not fear? According to Stephen King, we can be taught how to not fear those things that was taught to us in the first place to fear. According to me, this makes sense and this is why I feel that this article is important to those who want to learn how to overcome those things that fear them (McAleer, 2011).

 Reference

McAleer, P. (2011). I have the whole world in my hands…now what? : Power, control,    responsibility, and the baby boomers in Stephen King’s fiction. The Journal of Popular Culture, 44(6), 1209-1227.