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, bei....
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