Essay 5 Ideas

In reading "Cell" by Stephen King, I have come to admire the persistency and courage that Clay Riddell demonstrates. He is faced with a dramatic and horrific altercation of life and has no option except survival. He begins with trying to get back to his son, who is in a different state when "the pulse" goes through. Knowing that there is only a slim chance his son hasn't been affected is the only thing that keeps him moving in his quest for familiarity and comfort. Along with him on his journey is a young girl named Alice and a businessman named Tom McCourt. With the help of these two, survival seems more probable. They encounter "phone-crazies" and observe them from a safe distance and decide to take action before it is too late. Tom doesn't want to travel the way that Clay does, knowing that the probability of Clay seeing his son again is slim to none. Tom believes that they should think of going the opposite direction then which they are headed. The two characters are portrayed with some similarities and some differences. I am planning on elaborating on the encounters that they share and how they each have reacted to it. Another idea for essay 5 would be to compare David and Norton in King's "The Mist." David has a very straight-forward look on the mist that has surrounded the supermarket and possibly absorbed the entire town. He merely wants to get back to his house and see if his wife is safe or has been "taken." Norton, on the other hand, is a pessimist and causes a disturbance in the supermarket when David tries to show him what came out of the mist. The two characters in each story have different views and appear to be plausible topics for a concrete paper.