The Stand Essay, Research Paper
The Stand By Stephen King Stephen King & # 8217 ; s The Stand is a thrilling novel that portrays the forces of good against immorality. In the twelvemonth 1991, a pestilence work stoppages America, go forthing merely a few thousand people alive who are & # 8220 ; immune & # 8221 ; to the epidemic. Of the subsisters, those who serve G-d instinctively articulation in Boulder, Colorado, while those who worship the & # 8220 ; Dark Man & # 8221 ; are drawn to Las Vegas, Nevada. The two groups individually re-build society, until one must destruct the other. Franni Goldsmith comes really close to killing herself. She thinks she can non cover with her parents & # 8217 ; deceases, being unwed and pregnant, and holding the lone other subsister in her hometown of Ogunquit, Main be her late deceased best friend & # 8217 ; s Wyrd brother Harold Lauder. Fran puts aside her personal feelings for Harold aside, and goes with him to the topographic point in her dreams, to Boulder, Colorado. On their manner, they meet up with six people from assorted provinces in the United States who joined them on their journey. Fran is disturbed by her dreams, as all of them are by their ain. She dreams of an old lady named Abigail, in Colorado. This lady is sort and loving and promises to protect them from the immorality. In the dreams there is besides a & # 8220 ; Dark Man & # 8221 ; . He is ever there skulking, waiting to assail. Harold admits to himself that he is in love with Fran and goes brainsick when he realizes how serious Fran has become with Stuart Redman, one of the fledglings to their going group. Harold becomes crazily covetous and secret plans to
separate them, even if it means murder. Harold doesn’t admit it to any of them, but his dreams are different from theirs. In his dreams the “Dark Man” offers Harold power and respect, something Harold could never imagine in the past. Harold knows his destiny is to go to Las Vegas. The group arrives in Boulder, and soon after are joined by over one thousand others who dreamt of Abigail and this place. They inevitably form a society where they settled and has meetings to decide what they would do about the “Dark Man”. Abigail tells the people that three of them, including Stuart, must be sent to destroy the “Dark Man”. Meanwhile Harold secretly leaves with the “Dark Man’s” bride-to-be, Nadine, to Las Vegas. Harold is ready to kill Stuart, but is killed instead by “the will of G-d”. Nadine makes it safely to Las Vegas before Stuart and his two companions are about to be hanged. Out of the sky “the hand of G-d” comes and destroys the “Dark Man” sparing the three men. After much hardship, Stuart returns to Fran and her newborn son and together they plant the seeds of a new society. The Stand is a book about human nature. It shows people’s inclination toward good or evil. Mostly, it shows how it is in man’s nature to build society and to fight for his beliefs. I found this book to be extremely entertaining because it was well written and somewhat realistic, despite it’s supernatural aspects. I would recommend this book for anyone who enjoys roller coasters, horror movies, or a good old fashioned suspense novel.
