![]() ![]() I had no business watching this film when I was like 11 but.BRAD RENFRO! I had such a huge and probably unhealthy crush on him when I was a pre-teen. I watched the film YEARS ago for one reason and reason only. Not a lot happens during the bulk of the book but I felt that the slow way the story was told added to the sense of dread and unease I felt. I liked this book but I understand why a lot of people don't. Arthur the Nazi despite being elderly is still an truly heinous person and Todd is a monster in the making. After the fall of Hitler, Arthur like a lot of other Nazi collaborators fled to South America but eventually ended up in America.Īpt Pupil is less a horror novel and more of a character study of two truly evil people. He was responsible for thousands of murders. The neighbor going by the alias Arthur Denker was a SS officer and he was in charge of "efficiency" at a Nazi death camp and he was very very good at his job. He decides to blackmail his Nazi neighbor into telling him about all the unspeakable acts he committed. Todd Bowden is a deeply disturbed individual. Most people I would HOPE would immediately turn him in.īut not Todd Bowden, the young main character of our story. What would you do if you found out your neighbor was a Nazi and wanted war criminal? Stephen King strikes again! Highly recommended! Thanks! I was engaged the whole time and thought the story was suspenseful up until the very end. Eventually they need each other to hide the truth as the lies continue to mount in personal and social settings. The two main characters developed a codependent relationship based on extortion, lies, and lack of trust. Todd began to internalize feelings of antisemitism, sexual sadism, and developed antisocial personality traits to include homicidal urges. But their relationship soon deteriorated to the point of no return. Initially Todd made a deal with Dussander: to tell him stories from the concentration camps and he wouldn't tell the police. ![]() Kurt Dussander was the old man who was an SS officer and commandant of a concentration camp during WWII. Todd Bowden was a teenager, who through detective work of his own, discovered an old German man in his neighborhood to be a former Nazi in hiding. I really enjoyed this psychologically dark story. "Kill him and it's all over," he whispered in the darkness. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels. In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines. He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students they married in January of 1971. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. ![]() Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. ![]()
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