Stephen King

Stephen King

Long Walk / Thinner

The Long Walk: In the near future, where America has become a police state, one hundred boys are selected to enter an annual contest where the winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life. The game is simple - maintain a steady pace of four miles per hour without stopping. Three warnings, and you're shot to death.
Thinner: Billy Halleck commits vehicular homicide when his lack of attention to driving results in the death of an old lady on the street. Overweigh Halleck is a lawyer with connections, though, and gets off with a slap on the wrist. After his trial, a gypsy curses him with a single word, "Thinner." Halleck begins to lose weight uncontrollably and must pursue the band of gypsies who are responsible for his dwindling condition.


Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Chapters 1-2 Post

I just finished the first two chapters and I am very fascinated with the book so far. It seems very Hunger Game-ish but in a more casual manner. I find it very odd how this brutal competition is watched by onlookers like it's going to see the fireworks. When Garraty is marching with the others he mentions that they are passing houses and "Families sat out on their front lawns, smiling, waving, drinking Coca-Colas" (150). (Excuse the page number because my book is in a collection with other books) The contestants who fail to keep up with the others are brutally killed yet there are these people watching from the sidelines, having a grand ole time. I just don't understand how something so disturbing and scary to think about can be considered casual for the rest of society. Especially that part where Curley is killed, the first of the 100 competitors killed, and the scene is described in gruesome detail. He is shot and his "pimply head disappeared in a hammersmash of blood and brains and flying skull fragments" (154). This scene made me wonder what this society is like and how can something like this be considered normal or acceptable?
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  1. AnonymousDecember 23, 2014 at 2:24 AM

    I think that if shows how corrupt the society is, as a whole. And also how important these games are to them. It's creepy how they can watch this murder happen before them, and that they can just shrug it off. It really shows how important winning these games are.

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