Suffer the Little children
Suffer the Little Children is an amusing sci-fi story written by Stephan King. The way the author expresses the story, gives the reader open space for imagining. The short story is about an old school teacher who faces uncommon difficulties. The leading role Miss Sidley is obligated to deal with a class of children unlike any other. These children are characterized as ‘different’ in a bizarre abnormal way. Miss Sidley’s actions base on her increasing level of fear, as she act in ways she never thought she would be capable of doing. As her fear phobia grows so does her ideas of getting rid of children, which eventually leads to murder.

Miss Sidley seem to be the ideal dedicated teacher, who is methodical when it comes to her job. She knows when to keep her students quit in class, but the interested twist is that Sidley is the one which is suffering from a disturbing conduct and to whom ends up surprising her colleagues in school when she intentionally kills 12 pupils. King describes her as a small woman, constantly suffering, a gimlet-eyes woman. He later mentions that she is in the process of getting old, and the word Miss indicates that she is unmarried.

Kings has an interesting way of presenting his characters. P.1 l. 1 ‘Miss Sidley was her name, and teaching was her game’, this introduction is used twice throughout the story P. 8 l. 41 ‘Buddy Jenkins was his name, psychiatry was his game.’ When this sentence is read, we instantly know that his faith will be the same as Miss Sidley.

Robert is a student in Miss Sidley’s class. Miss Sidley calls on Robert to form a sentence with the word ‘tomorrow’. He replies ‘Tomorrow a bad thing will happen’. Miss Sidley is perturbed by Robert’s answer and the reflection of her glasses show, that Robert transforms himself into something ‘different’. She immediately turns around facing