King's popularity is based on his ability to create interesting characters, craft a realistic plot, and his keen awareness of what terrifies his readers. King often spoke about the experiences in his life that led him to this realization, including being abandoned by his father as a child (Kraft 3). Thanks to his great narrative skills, 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 has many techniques that he uses to interest the reader. He uses the real and supernatural worlds of his novel, It, to emphasize that the worlds need each other to thrive. For example, the city of Derry, the real one, needs the creature “It”, the supernatural one, so that they can coexist together (“Art…” 6). King also uses hallucinations in his novel The Shining to scare his readers. The little boy, Danny, constantly saw an imaginary friend named Tony. Tony showed up in moments of anxiety and loneliness (“Strange…” 4). Constantly in Danny's mind are thoughts of divorce, suicide, breakdown, 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 interested in the spiritual fraud that capitalism commits. than the promises of luxury resulting from material gain. In other words, people try to get to the top by trampling everyone 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 resulting from the selfish ways of capitalists. What separates King... half of the paper... One...” 3). Not all of Stephen King's narratives consist of these apocalyptic ideas, but almost all of them reference Scripture. This reference is usually negative. It is marked as an “apocalyptic perspective”. Not intending to be mystical or religious, King portrays that classification in spades. Examples are the hands and chest with Argus eyes on astronaut Arthur in "I Am the Doorway". The accounts of this are referable to the Bible in Revelation (“One…” 4). People need to learn from King's novels. They give harsh life lessons to any reader who is willing to explore his works more deeply. It is difficult to find these moral lessons in his stories, but it is possible for the devoted reader. King sends a message that good people can die painfully, but bad people can thrive and live long lives. Life lessons like these are hard to learn, but they are necessary.