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.


Thursday, January 8, 2015

Thinner- Chapter 1

From what I gathered, Bill Halleck got away with manslaughter, but the person he hit was an old gypsy woman, and someone (a gypsy) tried to tack revenge on him. He seems to try to block out his problems, and he's a little strange when it comes to describing Linda. I'm not really too sure as to what is happening to her. Is she being made fun of because her father killed an old woman?
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  1. JeanJanuary 10, 2015 at 9:30 AM

    I don't know if Linda is necessarily being made fun of but she is definitely ostracized by her peers after her father's accident. Everyone in the town seems to be aware of Bill's accident and his family seems to have been shunned by a large portion of the town.

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  2. UnknownMarch 18, 2021 at 11:42 AM

    ok?

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