The downy pillow covered his ears but did not mask the sound. Sleep eluded him for hours, and he heard it still: a persistent sc
raping in the corner of his room. Sitting upright at last, he peered into the darkness. It was as he’d suspected. His uncle’s trunk, an old army footlocker, was the source of the sound. Fine then, he could resolve this mystery. He swung his legs to the floor with conviction. How does the excerpt exemplify the ideas Stephen King describes in "Danse Macabre"?
The excerpt presented allows readers to approach a “forbidden door".
Explanation:
In "Danse Macabre", Stephen King describes how society influences the horror genre. Be it in books, comics, films, etc. He explores the history of the genre and how real life situations are the consequence of that history.
In this case, King is pointing us to a "forbidden door".
"(...) he peered into the darkness."
"(...) he could resolve this mystery. He swung his legs to the floor with conviction."
The character is going into the darnkess to solve that mistery. He is going to cross that "forbidden door".
Due to English punctuation eating is just an action where a drink is something like a soda and a action. A eat is not a meal or anything that can be consumed.
The correct answer is the <em>stream of consciousness</em>. The technique is used to describe the many feelings and thoughts character passing through his mind. We can observe it in the character of Septimus.
Wavered means moving unsteadily, quivered is synonymous with shiver or shake, burst is used when something happens suddenly and with force and throb is a shrilling voice according to the excerpt definitions. The nature of the words gives us a sense of <em>intense, anxiety and fear.</em>
There is a poem called "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats questioning the nature of humanity after the First World War. There are lines<em> "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold"</em> is relevant with the description of the excerpt.
