![]() ![]() ![]() By demonstrating the full range of the monstrous, King uses Cujo to show what monsters are, what roles they play in society (both fictional and real), and what they can tell us about ourselves. However, in plotlines like Charity’s struggle to live under the unbearable control of her husband, King emphasizes that monsters exist in our everyday lives as well. King never definitively describes the link between Frank Dodd, Tadd’s haunted closet, and Cujo but suggests that a supernatural force is at work in the plotline. Monsters straddle naturality and supernaturality throughout the novel. The monstrous in Cujo thus inhabits many forms and occupies many spaces. ![]() The book was released by Viking on 8 September 1981. ![]() While the dog Cujo becomes the central monster in the book (because he has contracted rabies), various monsters exist within its pages: Frank Dodd, abusive men like Joe Camber and Steve Kemp, the monster in Tad’s closet, and even Donna when she brutally kills Cujo. Cujo is the twelfth book published by Stephen King it is his tenth novel, and the seventh novel under his own name. A major function of King’s novel is to interrogate what a monster truly is. ![]()
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