Night Shift

Throughout the collection, King makes use of several unreliable narrators. Choose three of them and explore how King differentiates their unreliability. How are these characters similar?

In stories such as “Jerusalem’s Lot” and “Graveyard Shift,” the atmosphere, or how the setting makes readers feel, almost functions like a character. Choose another story that makes use of its setting in this manner and examine the techniques King uses.

King often describes his horror as allegorical. Choose two stories and examine their allegorical meanings. Be sure to suggest the actual fears and experiences that King might be trying to approach though his use of allegory.