The Cell
In the Cell our group found that even from the beginning Stephen King was very descriptive and gory. The Cell is all about people going mad from their cell phone. A cell phone call or signal makes the go mad. King introduced us to two main characters: Clay, a tall, good looking, level headed man along with Tom, a somewhat level headed, short, semi-bald and somewhat bitter man. The two main characters, Clay and Tom are opposites of each other but King seems to make them fit together like a glove and work with each other. Every now and then King will bring Tom, the lesser of the men to be a hero in small feats on their journey. They are accompanied by a small young girl named Alice on part of their journey which both of them men protect on occasion along the way.
In the readings we found that King gets very descriptive on odd occasions as when he goes into detail about a naked crazy man running down the street. King makes you wonder why he chooses some events over others to go into such details at the time. It can be in appropriate in the readings at time leaving you thinking what his point is, in that particular moment. Along with the reading of this novel we came to some conclusions as well. We started to see King as not empathetic towards his characters as they die off or are abused in some way. He also tends to make religion in the book portrayed by a babbling idiot in most cases. In this novel the religious person gets cold cocked in the face and what makes it worse it’s a woman that gets hit by the main character Clay. One thing we did totally agree on is how he makes you start to hate the bad characters just as much as he does in his novels.
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I thought it was strange too how in some parts he puts so much detail in them but in others he doesn't add as much. I also noticed that he did bash religion in this book with that woman. Some things can be offensive but for the most part its a good book.
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