This week I finished my first book, The Dead Zone. In the last chapters John is faced with many different
challenges. He realizes his new safe house is compromised; his new talent leads
him down a dark path.
While
in hiding as a tutor for a wealthy family’s son, he becomes close to them
almost like family. During his stay he emerges himself into politics, meeting
the candidates and shaking their hands. Right at the touch he knows what going
to happen in the race weather they win or lose. One politician sticks out more
than the rest, Greg Stilson. Stilson is a loud politician who’s for the people
his rallies are more like rock concerts than political rallies. Stilson runs
around on the stage in a hard hat and casual clothes, and he’s heavily guarded by
ex-bikers that he’s helped. John has a uneasy feeling about him he discusses
this with his boss, the father of the child he tutors, he says to blow it off
and the Stilson is just a pony show and people eat him up because he listens to
him.
Another
person he discussed the politician about is the gardener, a middle age Vietnamese
man who’s in the midst of getting his citizenship. He sees Stilson in the same
light as John. He describes Stilson as a tiger. He tells a story of a game that
people in his old village used to play called Laughing Tiger. The game consists
of one child dressed in a tiger’s skin, he chases the other children growling
and snarling but also laughing. He sees Stilson as the kid in the tiger skin.
Once
John begins to emerge himself whole-heartedly into researching Stilson, his
student graduates from high school and during the after party John hugs him and
then he has a vision of a fire at the restaurant the senior class as reserved for
the night. John tells everyone and scares some parents into keeping their
children home or sending them elsewhere.
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