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bird is the word spread the word

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1. What mood / atmosphere is created by the setting of the story? How does it develop over the course of the story?

2. What news items are on the radio? How do these contrast with the description of setting, as well as the young man’s feelings? Why do you think King has this in his story?

3. Provide a specific example of imagery as the tone/mood of the story changes.

4. How is this story different from a “typical” horror story or other stories Stephen King has written?

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Why do you suppose the weapon is a hammer and not a knife or a gun?

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I too am done with these fakes

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The Man Who Loved Flowers
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EVERYONE LISTEN TO REPTILIA BY THE STROKES

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Are there any hints at events likely to happen?

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6. The themes of the story are Love, grief, murder, danger and obsession.  The man seems very happy and in love, but he is a murderer who has gone insane after the woman he loved has died ten years ago.

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6. The themes of the story are Love, grief, murder, danger and obsession.  The man seems very happy and in love, but he is a murderer who has gone insane after the woman he loved has died ten years ago.

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He is starting out the story as a love story. 
He is using different sections to move the story along. 
He is using the slow increase of tension to capture the readers interest.
He is going in to great detail using a lot of adjectives to create images inside the head of the reader. 
Because in this case the flowers symbolize the emotions the man is going through. 
The flowers also further the illusion that the story is a love story. And is gives an insight of how well the man is able to hide his true intensions. 
 It would decrease the amount of tension and it would not further the illusion that the story is a love story. 

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1.	Is the ending predictable/ unpredictable, expected/ unexpected?
2.	Foreshadowing: Are there any hints at events likely to happen?
3.	What is the link between the title, the characters and the course of events?
4.	Does the title create expectations about the text? Arouse curiosity? Suggest an interpretation?
5.	Is the title good or bad? Would you prefer a different title?
6.	Are specific words or types of words repeated in the text? If yes which words? 
7.	What is characteristic of the general tone? Is it positive, negative, neutral, happy…? Does the tone change at any point in the story? If yes, when?
8.	What creates the idyllic and romantic atmosphere at the beginning of the story? Make a list of the words and sentences that create this atmosphere. Next find all the elements that break the romantic atmosphere.
9.	“Norma was dead, she had been dead for ten years” – what does that mean?
10.	What are the main themes of the story?

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He is a sociopath, in love , obsessed with Norma, he´s determined to find her even knowing that she is dead, he´s also stuck in a specific  time and can´t  move on. 
He kills the girls with a hammer because he enjoys seeing the girls suffer

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I Quit I Am Done With You Fake Ass Hoes

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5. The title of the story fits well for its content. It’s a good and suitable title. The story is about love, and the flowers symbolize that. The main character loves Norma and he thinks every girl is Norma.

6. The themes of the story are Love, grief, murder, danger and obsession.  The man seems very happy and in love, but he is a murderer who has gone insane after the woman he loved has died ten years ago.

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Creates idyllic and romantic atmosphere:

- The air was soft and beautiful, the sky was darkening by slow degrees from blue to the calm and lovely violet of dusk. There are people who loves the city, and this was one of the nights that made them love it.

- “Hey, beautiful!” The young man gave her a half-smile and raised his hand in a wave.

- This soft spring evening … he was beautiful.

- In spring anyone can be beautiful.

- The air was soft and sweet.

- Summer is the season of dreams.

Breaks idyllic and romantic atmosphere:

- This street was a little darker.

- Half a block down he turned into a narrow lane.

- Now the stars where out, gleaming softly, and the lane was dark and shadowy, lined with vague shapes of garbage cans. The young man was alone now – no, not quite.

- It was getting darker now.

- Beside the dented trash cans, where the cats made alien love in the dark, screaming in love, screaming, screaming.

- Backed away from the dark shadow sprawled on the cobblestones, away from the litter of tea roses by the garbage cans.

- It was full dark now.

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4)The flower vendor thinks " If this kid were sick, they´d have him in intensive care right now" - What do you think of this remark in the light of what happens later in the story ? 

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4)The flower vendor thinks " If this kid were sick, they´d have him in intensive care right now" - What do you think of this remark in the light of what happens later in the story ? 

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I understand why he thinks that, he have some tendens like an sociopath , well the vendor may have felt a bad feeling about him, and along the story we find out he were right.
The white skinny little boy with big fish eyes is always scary and looking sick...
Love sick ????

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He is starting out the story as a love story.
He is using different sections to move the story along.

He is using the slow increase of tension to capture the readers interest.
He is going in to great detail using a lot of adjectives to create images inside the head of the reader.

Because in this case the flowers symbolize the emotions the man is going through.
The flowers also further the illusion that the story is a love story. And is gives an insight of how well the man is able to hide his true intensions.
It would decrease the amount of tension and it would not further the illusion that the story is a love story.

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What does Stephen King want to tell us through this story?

Killers don´t look like anyone in particular. People don´t tend to be like you expect.

What impression do we get of people´s sexual life/married life in this story?

Find some examples!

Some old couples have lost the spark in their marriage. Complacency (at være for vant til hinanden/tager hinanden for givet.)

What impression do we get of life in a big city like New York?

No one really knows each other very well.

It´s easier to be anonymous in a big city like New York.

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2- Make a character sketch of the main character: why do you think he murders girls by knocking them down with a hammer? What is the matter with him? Do we get any hints in the story.

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2- Make a character sketch of the main character: why do you think he murders girls by knocking them down with a hammer? What is the matter with him? Do we get any hints in the story.

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He is a sociopath, in love , obsessed with Norma, he´s determined to find her even knowing that she is dead, he´s also stuck in a specific  time and can´t  move on.
He kills the girls with a hammer because he enjoys seeing the girls suffer and die slowly. He also wants to relieve his anger about Norma.
We do get some hints, when he ends up in a dark alleyway and also when he hears the radio talking about a hammer murder and he puts his hand into his coat pocket and touches "something" ( that could be the hammer). On the page 20 " It was always a surprise seeing her for the first time, it was always a sweet shock" (the readers become suspicious)