Monster Essays - The Stand
The Stand
Stephen King's The Stand 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....
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