The Stand :: Essays Papers

The StandStephen Kings The Stand is a thrilling novel that portrays the forces of good against evil. In the family 1991, a plague strikes America, leaving only a few thousand people alive who are immune to the epidemic. Of the survivors, those who serve G-d instinctively join in Boulder, Colorado, while those who worship the Dark cosmos are drawn to Las Vegas, Nevada. The two groups separately re-build society, until one(a) must destroy the other. Franni Goldsmith comes very close to sidesplitting herself. She thinks she can not deal with her parents deaths, being unwed and pregnant, and having the only other survivor in her hometown of Ogunquit, Main be her recently deceased best friends weird brother Harold Lauder. Fran puts aside her personal feelings for Harold aside, and goes with him to the place in her dreams, to Boulder, Colorado. On their way, they meet up with six people from various states in the United States who joined them on their journey. Fran is disturbed by her dreams, as all of them are by their own. She dreams of an old lady named Abigail, in Colorado. This lady is kind and loving and promises to protect them from the evil. In the dreams thither is also a Dark Man. He is always there lurking, waiting to attack. Harold admits to himself that he is in love with Fran and goes crazy when he realizes how serious Fran has survive with Stuart Redman, one of the newcomers to their traveling group. Harold becomes insanely jealous and plots to separate them, even if it means murder. Harold doesnt 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 Mans bride-to-be, Nadine, to Las Vegas. Harold is ready to kill Stuart, but is killed instead by the will of G-d.