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"But the closet door was open. Just a crack"

Danger

This text from the excerpt insinuates that something dangerous and scary is going to happen.

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"And then she screamed. I opened the door real quick - the hall light was on - and ... she was sitting up in the crib crying and ... something moved. Back in the shadows, by the closet. Something slithered.'"

Danger

Stephen King starts to give the reader some clues on what the "boogyman" is like, showing the reader that he isn't like a human figure and he even "slithers".

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"'But you did move him, didn't you?'"
"'Yeah', Billings said"

Danger

billings kept putting the children in the same room, knowing they died before.

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" I tell you, sometimes i felt like throwing them both out the window. Christ, kids drive you crazy sometimes. You could kill them"
Evil

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"so nice"
evil the boogeyman mocks lester about him being in the closest bringing back flashbacks

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" Billings looked morbidly at the door"
Element of horror: evil
Analysis: This shows evil because of the way he looks at the camera

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"The closet door was open. Not much. Just a crack. But I knew I left it shut."

Evil

Throughout the text Stephen King seems to associate the closet door with the boogeyman. Every time the boogeyman is present, the closet door is a "crack" open.

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"It still held its Dr Harper mask in one rotted, spade-claw hand."
Chaos
It is highly unexpected leaving the reader to question if the doctor was even real at all. It makes the reader question what actually even happened during the story.

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"All I did was kill my kids. One at a time. Killed them all."

Chaos

This is considered chaos because Lester has turned his family into chaos by saying that he killed his kids.

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"And I know how much I love him because I ran, in, I didnt even turn on the light I ran, ran, ran, oh Jesus God Mary, it had"

He ran into the room where is kid was and with out looking sprinted in. He ran into the danger without caring

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"All I did was kill my kids. One at  time."
Element of horror: Evil
Analysis: The thoughts going through Lester's mind forces him to confess to murders which reflect upon his evil character.

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Line from the text: "But I couldn't, the childish treble continued, I couldn't. And an hour later there was a scream. An awful gurgling scream"
Element of Horror: Chaos
Analysis: The uncontrollable is present as Billings can do nothing but let the Boogeyman kill his third child

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Danger - at the end when the  "Boggeyman" or Dr. Harper attacks Billings at the end. "Billings stood rooted to the spot as the closet door swung open. He dimly felt warmth at his crotch as he wet himeself.

'so nice', the boogeyman said as it shambled out. It still held its Dr. Harper mask in in rotted, spade- claw hand".

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Line from the Text: "I could hear some squishy noises, as if something black and green and wet was moving around in there just a little."
Element of Horror: Evil
Analysis: Stephen King created an in-depth description of the boogeyman, allowing the reader to also endure the terror Billings is enduring mentally.

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"The boogeyman, daddy... the boogeyman."

Evil

This creates an evil sense of the room he sleeps in.

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Line from text: "It took a year, but it found us. It's back. It wants Andy and it wants me"
Danger
Shows the danger that the Boogeyman puts Andy and Lester in, and that it threatens their lives.

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"So nice"
Evil
The Boogeyman mocks Lester in a evil/eerie way

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"So I moved him. I knew it would go for him, see. Because he was weaker. And it did...screaming"

Danger

This line showsan aspect of a person that our society fears. It shows that a father, someone who is supposed to protect their kids, can betray them and put them in immediate danger. Not putting your kids first in this situation is either pride or a loss of sanity.

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Line from the text- "I tell you, sometimes I felt like throwing them both out the window. Christ, kids drive you crazy sometimes. You could kill them".

Element of Horror- Evil

Analysis- This shows the evil that lives inside of Lester and that he might be capable of killing his children.

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"All I did was kill my kids. One at a time. Killed them all."
Element of horror: Evil
Analysis: He is taking blame for his children's deaths and making it seem like he actually killed them.

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Line from the Text: "All I did was kill my kids. One at a time. Killed them all."

Element of Horror: Evil

Analysis: This shows how evil Lester was. How he didn't care that he killed his kids.

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"He seemed to have lost the thread of his thought, and his eyes wander uneasily to the closet door, which was firmly shut."

Danger

This line especially shows danger do to the fact that it shows the tension building in Lester's mind right now. His paranoia is starting to get the best of him at this point, and he starts to change pitch in the conversation with Dr. Harper. There is a sense of danger in the air at this point, for anything can hop out of that closet.

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"All I did was kill my kids. One at a time. Killed them all."
Evil
Billings unexpected entrance into the story begins with him  confessing to several murders, which portrays him as the evil character of the story having done those horrible things.

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