whether there is one thing for which Stephen King is known to excel,it is his ability to remind us of the horrors of being a child. Many of his protagonists, from the children of IT to poor Carrie White to Selena Claiborne and beyond, and are children who are turned loose into a world that is trying desperately to waste them. In King’s novels,the collective adult tendency to gloss over and refuse to acknowledge many disturbing truths that are still fresh and horrifying to children is easily as much a villain as even his most terrible monsters.
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