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Stephen King manages to keep the reader’s attention throughout his almost 1,200-page book, The Stand. For this book, King imagines a whole new world, in which the reader is able to escape into. In The Stand, a strain of influenza breaks out. This plague is much worse than any others that antedated it, killing nearly 99% of the earth’s population. The earth is practically turned into a mortuary, and survivors are left scattered and in despondent.
To keep the reader’s attention, King uses a multitude of characters and story lines. He creates sympathetic characters that the reader wants to see survive. This draws them in deeper to the story because the problems the characters have resonate with them. In the Stand, one of the characters, Nick Andros, is a deaf-mute. Other characters face problems such as abuse and being alone. Every chapter the book shifts which character it focuses on, keeping the reader entertained, and making them read on to learn about the fate of specific characters. True to any other Stephen King horror novel, he incorporates terrifying scenes and images throughout the book. Although thoughts of putting the book down may fluctuate through the readers mind as they read through terror and gore filled scenes, this book remains unable to be put down.
Stephen King manages to keep the reader’s attention throughout his almost 1,200-page book, The Stand. For this book, King imagines a whole new world, in which the reader is able to escape into. In The Stand, a strain of influenza breaks out. This plague is much worse than any others that antedated it, killing nearly 99% of the earth’s population. The earth is practically turned into a mortuary, and survivors are left scattered and in despondent.
To keep the reader’s attention, King uses a multitude of characters and story lines. He creates sympathetic characters that the reader wants to see survive. This draws them in deeper to the story because the problems the characters have resonate with them. In the Stand, one of the characters, Nick Andros, is a deaf-mute. Other characters face problems such as abuse and being alone. Every chapter the book shifts which character it focuses on, keeping the reader entertained, and making them read on to learn about the fate of specific characters. True to any other Stephen King horror novel, he incorporates terrifying scenes and images throughout the book. Although thoughts of putting the book down may fluctuate through the readers mind as they read through terror and gore filled scenes, this book remains unable to be put down.