This week we’re supposed to talk about hope and what hope means and how it is interpreted. Well, I recently finished reading the book “The Mist” by Stephen King. In the very last chapter when the father, son, girlfriend, and grandparents are in the back of the car driving to somewhere safe, the mist looks like it has no end and they have a half of a gas tank full. The monsters are running a muck out there in the mist and all the people in the car can do is hope. Really, this whole book is about hope. In the mist are terrible creatures that eat meat and kill for the sake of eating. The people stuck in the store had no idea what the monsters were, where they came from, when they would go away, if help would come, or what would happen. After religious cults had begun in the store and after many human sacrifices for god and after many deaths, the Draytons finally decided that just waiting wasn’t enough for them. Their hope of being rescued in the store was gone so they ran to their car with the monsters running after them and they made it to the car. They started driving off again. Hope runs this whole movement. Without hope of being able to escape the mist and be safe from the monsters, everyone would have given up and done whatever. The only reason that some people stayed civilized was them hoping that they would be safe after a terrible monstrosity like this. I loved this book and recommend it to anyone that likes a good book, but even more a good horror.
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King, Stephen. Stephen King's The Mist. Los Angeles: Signet, 1985.
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