Chunk Two UTD

    I got my book in the mail today and boy, I am intimidated. The audiobook I am reading off YouTube is in videos of 3 hours each and I didn't think to look ahead to how many chunks there are. So when I saw this book had almost 1,100 pages made me a tad frightened. Hopefully this will go by quick with the audiobook as well as the real life copy of it. The next chapter is called Junior and Angie and I remember these characters a lot from the tv show. This chapter starts before the plane crashes and goes into detail about Juniors headaches. I remember this playing a huge part in the tv show but I can't remember if it had to do with the dome and its magnetic field as they explain later on. Immediately as I write this it explains in the book that it is a brain tumor. He starts having a headache and his emotions start spiraling. He starts thinking about Angie and decides to go to her house and “teach her a small lesson” Before she could even open the door to see who it was, he slapped her with enough force to make her bleed. Angie runs to try and call the police but is caught by her hair. Stephen King wrote this very well because I was getting grossed out by all the small gore from this assault. It reveals more information about how these characters know each other and how junior even knows Dale Barbie. He says he wishes he could have done something to dale instead of Angie. Angie gets beaten so badly she starts having a seizure, but when Junior thinks about what had happened instead of calling the police and getting her help, he doubles down and decides to choke her. It is heavily implied that he wants to kill her.


    This is so scary to think about. To the reader, I do not know anything about what is happening. I have no understanding why junior is doing this other than “she deserves it”. There is no reason other than Junior’s thoughts of how she had caused him and his friends trouble in the past. The only thing that stops him in his tracks is the thought of getting caught and yet he is still choking her at this point. Later on he even thinks to himself, “... and she ended up making you kill her,” as if this was her fault to begin with. This sets up Junior to be a horrible man and I hope this is what Stephen King was aiming to do. Right now there is no redemption for this. He runs away after hearing sirens. Dipping around the house and through condemned bridges to escape to his house while police sirens are rushing toward the other side of town. He thinks about how this should end either by running away, killing himself, or turning himself in. Finally his migraine is too much and he falls asleep the second he gets home.

    These first two chapters have been so much. I always forget Stephen King is known for being graphic and having intense imagery. King did not hold back on this book.


Chapter three. Highways and Byways

    The start of this gives a little bit more of world building and a little more death. The narration starts by talking about the roads leading into or out of the small town and I was starting to wonder if that was just world building, Then the line came, “ And shortly before noon on dome day, every one of them snapped closed.” I audibly gasped in how nice a transition that was. It took me by surprise to read that after starting to get bored of how many roads this book could name. The dome appears almost out of nowhere and chops everything in its path in two. With the barrier being invisible the book describes a few people dying because of it. A man dies crashing his car into it, a woman was half inside Chester's Mill and half out, and a deer that was also caught in the barrier. It goes back to Barbie and the man at the border. I seems Barbie is on the inside and the man on the outside. It sounds like they're both on a small highway or a busy road as another truck comes speeding by. Even after trying to stop them, the trucker still speeds by and crashes into the dome. More and more people start to come to stare at the crash. Police within the dome were not responding but Barbie and the man start to make a plan on who to call to help their situations.



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