Tuesday, February 26, 2008

SETTING PG30-60 Thinner by stephen king

The story is at a point when there is a happy, excited tone to the charcters. Billy Halleck (a lawyer) has just won a case he has been woking on for years and he and his wife are starting thier vacation. Although the main characters (billy and his wife) are light hearted and on top of the world, the setting sets them up for disaster. Billy and his wife are basically alone in a dangerous place in the woods where anything could happen. Already billy fears for his life along the trails due to the steep rocks and caves. Not only is billy frightened some what by where he is but the old gypsy man is always lurking in the back of his mind and from what i can tell halleck often is afraid the gypsy man will come for him as the grim reaper does for the dead.
Billy cannot help but find a flaw to where he is vacationing. Even though he was head over heels about the trip, he now gets to the vacation spot and finds it is not all it he had made it out to be. Have you ever hyped yourself up about a place you were going then found it was not all it was cracked up to be once you got there? How did you feel?

1 comment:

Zach B said...

I feels like that whenever I watch movies that have been hyped up for months. I AM LEGEND was a good movie but not the way they were selling it.