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The Stand - Online Term Paper

The Stand


Stephen King's is a thrilling novel that portrays
the forces of good against evil. In the year 1991, a plague
strikes America, leaving only a few thousand people alive who are
"immune" to the epidemic. Of the survivors, those who serve God
instinctively join in Boulder, Colorado, while those who worship
the "Dark Man" are drawn to Las Vegas, Nevada. The two groups
separately re-build society, until one must destroy the other.
Franny Goldsmith comes very close to killing 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 friend's ...

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there 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 become 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 doesn't 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". ...

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Added: 9/18/2004 04:24:04 PM
Category: English
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 532
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