Purchase Solution

Overview of Stephen King's book: The Dead Zone

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

What are the themes, the main character and the plot of Stephen King's, The Dead Zone?

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

An overview of Stephen King's book for The Dead Zone is examined.

Solution Preview

There are basically 2 plots in "The Dead Zone". Although, just like many other of King's novels, there is a horrific undertone, the story about a serial killer is just the subplot. This book moreover tells the story of a high school teacher, John Smith, who enters a six-year coma, and when he awakes, experiences a gap in time (sort ...

Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Who vs. Whom

Students will review the grammatical concept of using "who" versus "whom."

Grammar Check 1

Practice your understanding of the English language and how to properly apply it with this quiz. Quotations, contractions, subject/verb agreement, possession, and participles are among the skills tested.

Conflicts

You will identify conflicts and their types in this short quiz.

Academic Research and Writing

This is a quiz that tests students’ knowledge about the research, revision, and writing processes.

Colon and Semi-Colon Usage

Appropriate use of a colon and semi-colon when writing brings clarity to your statement. Inappropriate use could cause confusion to the reader.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Wildfire Disaster Planning

    The nonnative weeds are usually dead or dormant by the summer months. They can contain lignin which makes them dry and dead in nature.

  • Daniel and Melzar's research question

    Daniel spent the rest of his life in Babylon as a statesman and prophet. The book of Daniel was written to encourage the exiled Jews. Source: MacArthur, John. The MacArthur Study Bible. Word Publishing, 1997, p. 1225-1227.

  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Explanation of Martin Luther King's idea of Jim Crow Laws is clarified in this discussion.

  • Summary of the grapefruit diet for health science students

    Here is a link that outlines the general nature of the diet: http://www.webmd.com/diet/zone-what-it-is I have also attached an introduction from the book Barry Sears wrote that popularized the ideas of his diet.

  • Rodney King's civil rights

    The essay also gives a brief overview of the civil rights that were violated.

  • Writing a Hypothesis on "Moral Instinct"

    Now to Stephen Pinker's excellent book, THE MORAL INSTINCT.

  • Components and benefits of a Marine Ecosystem

    Below the abyssal zone, on the bottom of the ocean, there are many species of decomposers, which break down the organic material of dead oceanic organisms into nutrients. The open ocean has a very high productivity.

  • Sampling techniques

    In phone book the entries are given some alphabetically individual/zone wise/area wise/Occupation wise/industry wise etc. In such a case the best method of sampling is stratified random sampling.

  • managers and macroeconomics conditions

    There isn't the same kind of competition on books as we find in perfectly competitive markets. A book by Stephen King is not necessarily exchangeable by another book because they are not the same product.

View More Related Solutions