King's popularity is based on his ability to create interesting characters, craft a realistic plot, and his intense awareness of what terrifies his readers. King has often spoken about the experiences in his own life that led to this realization, including being abandoned by his father as a young child (Kraft 3). With his great storytelling abilities, King became one of the best-selling authors of all time and had a great influence on the development of popular literature (Kraft 2). King uses many techniques to interest the reader. He uses the real and supernatural worlds of his novel It to argue that worlds need each other to thrive. For example, the town of Derry, the real town, needs the creature “It,” the supernatural, to be able to coexist together (“Art…” 6). King also uses hallucination in his novel The Shining to frighten his readers. The little boy, Danny, constantly saw an imaginary friend named Tony. Tony appeared in moments of anxiety and loneliness (“Strange…” 4). Danny constantly thinks about divorce, suicide, breakup, danger, emergency and madness. At these points in the novel, a reader can tell that King did not have a good father figure (“Strange…” 3). A close reading of the economic commentary in King's fiction often shows that he is more concerned with the spiritual fraud that capitalism commits. than the promises of luxury resulting from material gain. In other words, people are trying to get to the top while trampling on anyone who gets in their way (Davis 1). When King deals with Americans seeking profit and power in his stories, he often highlights the consequences and negative attitudes that arise from the selfish ways of capitalists. What separates King...... middle of paper...... A…” 3). Not all of Stephen King's stories contain these apocalyptic ideas, but almost everything references Scripture. This reference is generally negative. This is an “apocalyptic perspective”. Not wanting to be mystical or religious, King depicts an abundance of this classification. Examples are the Argus-eyed hands and chest of astronaut Arthur in "I Am the Doorway". Accounts of this can be referred to the Bible in Revelation (“One…” 4). People need to learn from King's novels. They give hard life lessons to any reader who wants to delve deeper into his works. It is difficult to find these moral lessons in his stories, but it is possible for the dedicated reader. King sends a message that good people can die painfully, but bad people can prosper and live long lives. Such life lessons are difficult to learn, but they are necessary.