There was a very thoughtful man in my life and his wisdom was automatically recognized by my subconscious when he bought me a novel by Stephen King, Under the Dome, for my birthday. This book was successfully keeping my eyes open for hours; and this piece of sentence tells a lot for a book that has more than 1.000 pages. Under the Dome wasn’t actually new. It was released in the late 2009 and part of King’s older ideas in 1970s or 80s.
The story evolved around how human interact when they were separated and isolated from the rest of the world, the politics, the emotion, the unpredictable actions of the characters. Stephen King put a generous amount of characters in the story and since English is not my first language (proven by my long list of grammatical errors in every single article in this blog), I have a little bit difficulty in remembering the names of the characters and their physical features. So, sometimes I needed to flip the page backwards just to recall few characters.
The story started with the appearance of a dome-like phenomena at October 21st around a small city called Chester Mill. I imagined it like a transparent-Chester Mill-shaped-bubble...means it wasn’t a perfect dome like you might see on the cover of the book (correct me if I’m wrong). At first, it was a centripetal kind of story. King separately described multiple accidents during the descent of the Dome and the people were still wondering about what really happened. The accidents conjoined and provided some kind of insight that there was something bigger happening in town.
Below is the synopsis I took from StephenKing.com
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when—or if—it will go away.
Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens—town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician’s assistant at the hospital, a selectwoman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing—even murder—to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn’t just short. It’s running out.
Or you can read a rather longer review here.
Happy reading,
Nidya strini
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