Chunk Three UTD

  Chapter four Lotta dead birds


This chapter starts off with a police officer named Howard “Duke” Perkins and writes him out to be a very detailed oriented man. He notices and figures out which police car and who would be driving after the sudden boom just by the siren. He leaves his wife on his only day off and goes to check what happened with the other police officers. It's spoiled at the end of the part that he later dies. I know from the tv show it is because his pacemaker gets overworked from the magnetic field of the dome and makes it explode inside his chest. On the other end of town there is a married couple bickering about how unhappy their marriage is. They end up crashing straight into the dome and  the husband dies instantly.  It's hard to understand what these characters are supposed to mean. I go into every paragraph with a new set of characters and Stephen King then goes into great detail explaining who they are and their life only to have them die in the next paragraph. It's kind of becoming a pet peeve of mine. I cant wait till later in the book where characters will hopefully stick around more than one or two sentences. 


We're back to Dale Barbie and the man who saw the crash from the other side, Gendron. The pair start walking down the side of the dome trying to find where the end is. They come across a lot of dead animals and people on their trek. Another helicopter crash amplifies that they are in fact in a dome.


This chapter ends with Junior waking up from his nap to police and fire sirens. He tries to figure out what to do next and while thinking appreciates that his house is empty. The whole chapter ends with this and it makes me really nervous for the next parts. I want to figure out what happens with Junior and Angie and I want Junior to be punished for his actions. I'm excited to see how this will play out and how it will continue moving forward.


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  1. RizApril 18, 2021 at 8:30 PM

    In your first post you mentioned the TV show -- I can't stand that show. I read this book of course and likely enjoyed it some as I read it because it is very vivid and diverting -- but I think the Junior you get in the book is so much better than the one on that T.V. show. I guess turning books into shows is more challenging than it seems it would be and that one really proves it.

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