I liked David and his son and I rooted for them. What would happen if you were stuck at a grocery store with a bunch of people with a deadly mist surrounding you? Most of the people know one another because they all live in town. As I said, I like these end of the world type stories. There is plenty of tension and danger as fear of the unknown begins to overtake people. The group of people at the grocery store try to bond together to figure out what to do next. David tries to keep his 8 year old son calm while also worrying about his wife back home. People begin to panic as they realize there is something unnatural and deadly waiting outside. Once at the grocery store David realizes the mist is spreading and has enveloped the entire building.
David Drayton takes his son into town for supplies leaving his wife behind at their lakefront home. I also enjoy the post-apocalyptic stranded group of strangers setting where people need to work together to figure out a solution.Īs the story begins there is a bad thunderstorm in Maine in the middle of July that brings with it a thick unnatural looking mist. One of the reasons I enjoy The Mist so much is that I like these kinds of stories based on a catastrophe that makes peoples true selves emerge. The Mist is one of my favorite King book to film adaptations, I liked both the film version and the tv mini-series which was cancelled after season 1. This exhilarating novella explores the horror in both the enemy you know-and the one you can only imagine. But what’s out there may be worse than what they left behind. Clearly, staying in the store may prove fatal, and the Draytons, along with store employee Ollie Weeks, Amanda Dumfries, Irene Reppler, and Dan Miller, attempt to make their escape.
She insists a sacrifice must be made and two groups-those for and those against-are aligned. Carmody, begins to play on their fears to convince them that this is God’s vengeance for their sins. As the confinement takes its toll on their nerves, a religious zealot, Mrs. Once there, they become trapped by a strange mist that has enveloped the town. In the wake of a summer storm, terror descends…David Drayton, his son Billy, and their neighbor Brent Norton join dozens of others and head to the local grocery store to replenish supplies following a freak storm.
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