Improve this answer. In addition, the novel and the spelling are based on an actual place which was behind King's own home. Dredd Dredd Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Version labels for answers. Related 7. Hot Network Questions. Question feed. I think origanally he didn't want to publish it because it was so dark.
It sat in his desk drawer for a while I think. Dec 27, AM. I thought it was one of his best books. Authors are always so unsure of themselves.
Dec 28, AM. The best part of this novel is the ending. Never has King been able to top that ending. Apr 10, PM. In the book, one of the headstones in the pet cemetery has the word sematary written in childish scrawl. Hence the misspelling.
Apr 11, PM. Ashley wrote: "In the book, one of the headstones in the pet cemetery has the word sematary written in childish scrawl. May 01, AM. I don't like books unless they go too far.
I'm so very glad that he did publish this. Jul 13, PM. Pet Sematary is, hands down, one of my favorite books of all time. I think the misspelling adds to the eeriness of the novel. After a family moves into their new home, they discover a pet cemetery on their property. Well, it is. While writing the book, King knew how to do this effectively: make it a slow burn and a gradual descent into madness.
Not only does that form of madness not correlate with what the story is trying to do, it does not feel appropriate for the film. It would work for a haunted house movie, but not a trying-to-be psychological horror film. In Middle English, the word was spelled cimitery. The soil of a lexicographer's heart is stonier, Louis. Before we get too far past sematary 's gates, we'd like to mull over its possible utility in different contexts. Hypothetically, it could pass as an adjective form using the suffix -ary , meaning "of, relating to, or connected with" related to the noun sematology , which refers to the study of word meanings.
It could also quite possibly be used as a synonym of sematic , meaning "serving as a warning of danger" and used of the conspicuous colors of poisonous or noxious animals. This type of lexical rumination could come in handy as a diversion if you are aghast at the horror that unfolds in King's story, which is about children burying the bodies of pets who get run over on a road in rural Maine in the "sematary," which so happens to be by an ancient burial ground.
If it does anything to tamp down the impending terror, we'll look at the word's phonetic substitutions one by one. With the lights on. The sound of the schwa is officially described as a "mid central unrounded vowel.
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