Kay and all,
Kay,
I couldn't agree with you more, this passage was great. Whether or not
you like Stephen King's subjects, I do think he is a very gifted writer.
When I read Cujo, I was struck by the passage after the boy who was trapped
in the car by the rabid dog had died from dehydration. It was one of the
most remarkable portrayals of the stunned shock, sense of unreality, and
grief after the death of a child I have ever read, and it has stayed with me
for years.
Linda Lucke
Linda Lucke
Learning Center Director
Butterfield School
Libertyville, IL
LLucke@d70.k12.il.us
"Teachers aren't paid to love children. Loving children is what teachers do
for extra credit. It's not the main assignment - but it's more important
than the main assignment. Extra credit is done of your own free will. Work
and love given of your own free will is always more joyous, better quality
stuff." Sahara Special, by Esme Codell.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kay Goss" <klg@TNP.MORE.NET>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 8:52 AM
Subject: [LM_NET] SHARE: Potrayal in Stephen King's Cell
I started reading Cell by Stephen King last night. The protagonist is an
artist/graphic novelist who has been making his living as an itinerant art
teacher in rural Maine. He is in Boston to sell his novel when things begin
to happen.
I enjoyed this paragraph. If you are not a fan of King's gruesome
descriptions, skip to the end.
"They stopped again in front of Colonial Books (Best of the Old, Best of the
New), watching as the unlikely victor of the T station battle went striding
into the park in the direction of the burning plane, with blood dripping
onto her collar from the ends of her zero-tolerance gray hair. Clay wasn't a
bit surprised that the last one standing had turned out to be the lady who
looked like a librarian or Latin teacher a year or two away from a gold
watch. He had taught with his share of such ladies, and the ones who made it
to that age were, more often than not next door to indestructible." From
Cell by Stephen King
Kay Goss
Director, Library Media Services
Mansfield Secondary Library
316 West Ohio Ave. Mansfield, MO. 65704
Home of Laura Ingalls Wilder
417-924-3236 Ext. 311
klg@tnp.more.net
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