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.


Monday, January 12, 2015

Chapter 10

I do not really understand Leda's toward Billy. She seems to hate the fact that Billy hit the gypsy with the car, and she is trying to prevent him from speaking to Cary. But it also doesn't seem as important as he makes it out to be to speak to him. Leda is also a bit sketchy as well, instead of laughing about him having a curse from a gypsy, she simply keeps pressing information from him and becomes upset.
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  1. UnknownJanuary 13, 2015 at 7:47 PM

    I agree that Leda was asking really sketchy, especially when she lied and told Billy that Cary was just visiting siblings in Minnesota (when he dosen't even have siblings). The reason she's acting so strange is because Cary, her husband, has also been cursed by a gypsy, since he helped Billy get off with no punishment. Instead of losing weight though, Cary is growing scales and he's turning into a reptile. This all seems like too much Leda to handle, so I think she was just really nervous when talking to Billy. Billy was thinking to himself, "She's tottering on the brink of madness" (90).

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