By Tim Brown

Literature Circle Book

Cell

Setting

The setting starts off in modern day Boston, Massachusetts . Right outside a little shop called “Small Treasures.” The setting then moves to a very uncomfortable hotel in Boston called the “Atlantic avenue inn.” Within the hotel they go to the kitchen to make sandwiches, the owners office to listen to the radio,(Which doesn’t work) and the stair wells to barricade them so that the “Phone Crazies” don’t come down.

Drawn for the Book

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They then travel to a highway to escape the burning Boston. On the highway they witness hardcore religious people, men brawling over beer, and families with no one between the ages of 30-13. The travel to the end of the highway that leads them to a character’s house. From the characters house they then walk across the street to break into the now dead Arnie Nickerson’s house.

The highway they traveled on

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From there, they head into a small town that remains unnamed. They bounce around various hotels and motels within the city. At night they travel on the highways to escape they flood of insane people. They then find themselves at an abandoned prep school where the only two people who are remaining are a student named Jordan and the headmaster.

Characters

Clay Riddell is a person with a very unique personality. He puts everything he sees into a picture in his head. He is also very smart, he manages to get himself out of every bad situation with his wits. No matter what the circumstances, he puts the situation into a voice of one of his drawings. He is also a very talented drawer as well as a writer. Before this happened, he just published and sold his book for so much money that he was able to quit his job as an art teacher and retire at 42. He is the MAIN character who is the PROTAGONIST and a DYNAMIC character as well.

What I think Clay would look likesodahead.com

Tom McCourt is a very smart and pronounced figure. He is an atheist person who is also very defensive. He absolutely hates religious “nuts’’ as he calls them. He is a Fatherly figure toward Alice, who’s parents became Phone Crazies while she was in the car. He has a medium build, brown eyes, black hair, and a slightly crooked nose. He is also very affectionate toward his cat. He is a minor character who is a static protaganist.

What I think Tom Looks like.Stephenkingbio.com

Alice Maxwell is a semi- psychologically troubled girl. She is victim to many mood swings of anger and hatred of people. At times she can seem like a dry, hardened person who shows nothing but hatred, but she is also a kind person who has suffered unimaginable trauma. She is very skinny, not too tall and has blond hair and blue eyes. She is a minor character who is dynamic and a protagonist

How I Think Alice would look like.

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Jordan is a very loyal, nice person. He is very supportive, but also very indecisive. He always follows the Head no matter the situation. He can’t be swayed. Though he is very passive as well. He is African American, has short hair and a slightly high voice. He is a protagonist, minor character, and very static.

What I Think Jordan looks like. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304636404577299544105831080.html

The Head is the headmaster of the prep school and a very old one at that. He is a very wise and clever old man who walks with a cane. Although he can’t ball up his fist, he’ll use the cane to turn you inside out if he had to. He is the most selfless person in the book so far. He is very tall with a hunch and is balding. He is a dynamic character because he committed suicide to save a student (Long Story), he is a protagonist, and a minor character.

This is what I think the head looks like

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This is a very odd book because it has many rising and falling actions. As well as many clmaxes.

Rising action 1:

People are moseying about during a normal, busy day in Boston, that was ,until the phones rang. The second a person picked up their phone the went insane, suicidal, or murderous. Anyone who had a phone tried to dial 911, unfortunately, they didn’t pick up.

Climax 1: A man named Clay teemed up with a

random stranger and a little girl as they shoot, stab, and kill their way out of the city.

Falling Action 1:

As Clay and his team fight their way out of the city, they find an abandoned highway and hightail their way to a random person’s home. They then sleep for the remainder of the night.

Rising action 2: They have discovered a flock of insane people and try to observe them while the insane sleep in the football field. They secretly plot to load the football field with tankards of gas and detonate it.

Climax 2: They fill up the football field and perch themselves on a balcony. From a distance, they detonate the blast as all chaos breaks loose. The school is literally shaking and crumbling as it catches on fire. You could hear the screams of pure agony from the insane even though none of them opened their mouths.

Falling Action 2: The screams stopped as did the rumbling of the building. All that was left of the football field was a large crater and melted metal. You could still smell the stench of the burning victims as the fire breathed it’s last breath upon the now featureless field.

The whole society falls and becomes a post-apocalyptic , zombie infested world. Only Four known survivors are left. They are taking on a whole society of crazy, telepathic Zombies. This is a Man vs. Society.

The theme or moral of this story is very complicated. A book about a zombie apocalypse has either multiple morals, or none at all. The one moral I think this story has , is that people should not rely on technology to do everything for them. Because eventually it will all stop working and we would be stuck with nothing.

The resolution of this story is left out. The main characters son is transferred into “Phone Crazy” and is hogtied by his father and brought home. The End of the book just has the father trying to reverse the process of becoming a “phone zombie” by putting a phone up to his ear. That is the end.

“Can you hear me now?” Verizon