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Originally Posted by HoopyFrood  In this novel Stephen King integrates fictional documents such as essays, news reports and book extracts to frame the story. They aren't real books (as far as I'm aware, I think), I believe that they are created by King to add a new depth to the story, even a sense of realism, as if the story is being documented as fact, rather than being retold as a story. It's been a while since I've read the book, but I believe it also contains things such as fictional memoirs from a book written by one of the girls who attended the same school as Carrie and witnessed the 'events' of the book. |
You're dead on. He did this to invoke a sense of authenticity to Carrie's story. I can't remember which book inspired him to do this, but he mentioned it in On Writing.