From Renaissance to Dissolution: The Journeys of Disillusioned Heroes in Stephen King’s Rat and Bag of Bones

Abstract

        This paper is an analogical study of the journeys of the protagonists in Stephen King’s novella Rat and the novel Bag of Bones. It is an attempt to identify the similarities and differences in the deliberation of the protagonists to create a long work of fiction that is brought to fruition only by the intervention of the supernatural. With room for minor variations, the narratives progress on a similar note that begins with the writers’ struggle to write, followed by the change of scenery to precipitate manuscripts, the supernatural aid to dissolve the impediments, the dawn of disillusionment and the dissolution of the ambitions.