Essay Archive - Stephen King's The Stand: Summary
Stephen King's The Stand: Summary
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 G-d 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.
Franni Goldsmith comes very close to killing herself. She thinks she
can not deal with her parents' deaths, being unwed and pregnant, and having the
only o....
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