Qarshi davlat universiteti xorijiy tillar fakulteti ingliz tili va adabiyoti kafedrasi

 
 
Development of detective and fantastic genre. 
Case study 
The text: the first three paragraphs of The Dead Zone by S.King 
By the time he graduated from college, John Smith had forgotten all about 
the bad fall he took on the ice that January day in 1953. In fact, he would 
have been hard put to remember it by the time he graduated from grammar 
school. And his mother and father never knew about the fall at all. 

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They were skating on a cleared patch of Runaround Pond in Durham. The 
bigger boys were playing hockey with old taped sticks and using a couple of 
potato baskets for goals. The little kids were just farting around the way 
little kids have done since time immemorial--their ankles bowing comically 
in and out, their breath puffing in the frosty twenty-degree air. At one corner 
of the cleared ice two rubber tires burned sootily, and a few parents sat 
nearby, watching their children. The age of the snowmobile was still distant 
and winter fun still consisted of exercising your body rather than a gasoline 
engine. 
Johnny had walked down from his house, just over the Pownal line, with 
his skates hung over his shoulder. At six, he was a pretty fair skater. Not 
good enough to join in the big kids' hockey games yet, but able to skate 
rings around most of the other first graders, who were always pinwheeling 
their arms for balance or sprawling on their butts. 
In the second paragraph of TDZ King starts to build up our picture of the 
child John Smith once was by telling us about his world. Look at his 
language: 
- bigger boys
- little kids 
- old taped sticks 
- potato baskets for goals 
- their [the little kids] ankles bowing comically in and out 
Stephen King is no longer talking/writing about "John Smith" he's writing 
about "Johnny". 
- Johnny is a "pretty fair skater". He's "able to skate rings around most of 
the other first graders." 
What Does This All Mean? 
Progris riport 1 marten 3.
Dr Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thin
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that happins to me from now on. I dont no why but he says its importint so
they will see if they can use me. I hope they use me becaus Miss Kinnian sa
ys
mabye they can make me smart. I want to be smart. My name is Charlie Gor

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I werk in Dormers bakery where Mr Donner gives me 11 dollers a week and 
bred
or cake if I want. I am 32 yeres old and next munth is my brithday. I tolld
dr Strauss and perfesser Nemur I cant rite good but he says it dont matter he
says I shud rite just like I talk and like I rite compushishens in Miss Kinnian
s
class at the beekmin collidge center for retarted adults where I go to
lern 3 times a week on my time off. Dr Strauss says to rite a lot evrything
I think and evrything that happins to me but I cant think anymor because I
have nothing to rite so I will close for today... yrs truly Charlie
Gordon.
Points to ponder 
1.
The main setting for this story is 
New York City. Many land-marks, 
such as Times Square, enable the 
reader to visualize the location. 
Which settings are fictional and 
which are pre-sent still today? What 
does the novel gain from this mix of 
real and fictional settings? 
2.
The combination of the progress 
reports and the memory re-gressions 
allow Keyes to use both a first and 
third person nar-ration technique. 
How would this novel be affected 
by having the story told by another 
character? Miss Kinnian? Professor 
Nemur? How important is the point 
of view to the story line? 
3.
What is this fragment about? 
Why so many grammar mistakes? 

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