Answer these following questions with specific references to the text and MLA citation format. Responses should be one paragraph per question. Add TWO quotes to each question.
1. Discuss King’s “toolbox” analogy. What tools do you find most indispensable when you write?
2. King doesn’t read in order to ‘study the craft’ but believes that there is a “learning process going on” when he reads. Are you conscious of the writer’s craft while you read? Think about the last book you read . How did the writer craft his or her work? What did you learn from it?
3. Why do you think King structures his memoir the way he does?
4. How much of king’s advice was new to you? What did you learn about writing from King’s memoir?
5.Throughout his memoir King fuses “writing” with “life” and vice versa. What is his point in doing this? What is the relationship between the two?