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.


Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Quote from Chapter 11

I thought it was important when Ray was thinking to himself and said, "And it was not even the pain that was the worst. It was the death, the constant death, the stink of carrion that had settled into his nostrils" (260). I thinks that's what makes the Long Walk so bad. Even though their feet really hurt and they're tired, they can push through that, but having to watch their friends get shot is much worse. It messes up their minds and has a huge effect on them for the rest of the walk. I think even the one person who wins will still be scarred from having to watch 99 people get killed. Since the author usually just says "the guns roared again" when somebody is shot and he doesn't describe most of the deaths in detail, I think its easy to forget exactly what the kids have to watch happen over and over again, so this reminded me that physical pain isn't all that the walkers are going through.

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  1. AnonymousJanuary 1, 2015 at 10:56 AM

    I think that the Walk is finally starting to get to him. Before, he seemed quite strong and sort of immune to what was going on around him, but now he is showing fear and a sort of weakness. It shows how he isn't as strong as we thought.

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