Pet Semetary (Matt Roy)

Title: Pet Sematary
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Penguin Group
Pages: 410
I found this book in my room on my book shelf.

Louis Creed, and his wife Rachel, move from Chicago to Ludlow Maine, with their two children named Ellie and Gage. Louis meets his neighbors Jud and Norma Crandall who are both around the age of 80. Jud Crandall takes Louis and his daughter for a walk up the old Indian trail in their back yard that leads to the pet cemetery (in the book spelt semetary). Louis is a doctor, and he received a job at university infirmary, where in his first day a work, watched a man named Victor Pascow die a brutal and horrible death after being hit by a car. Louis could do nothing but watch as the man slipped away. Pascow muttered last words about the cemetery and mentions his name, which freak Louis out and make him become skeptical of the situation. Later, Louis encounters Pascow in his dreams when he leads him at night to the pet cemetery, which at first Louis thought was real because he awoke with mud on his heels. The family cat, Winston Churchill, is hit by a car on the busy road that separates Louis and Juds houses, which almost perfectly foreshadows Louis son gage also being hit by a truck and dying. Louis Creed has learned from Jud that anything buried in the infamous pet cemetery reanimates back into life. Louis decides to burry his son there out of his love and want to see his son just more time and against the advice from Jud.

The audience of this book would have to be more sophisticated readers. This book uses fairly advanced language and has passages that could confuse a person of lower reader levels.

Kings style is writing with a lot of description while also incorporating real-life facts, which make his horror stories much more eerie. It takes the average human seven minutes to go to sleep, but according to Hands Human Physiology, it takes the same average human fifteen to twenty minutes to wake up. It is as if sleep is a pool from which emerging is more difficult than entering, (88).

Louis sat back, vaguely aware that all his clothes were sticking to him; he was drenched with sweat. Darkness bloomed, spreading a wing softly over his etes and the world began to swing sickeningly sideways. Recognizing what was happening, he half-tuned from the dead man, thrust his head down between his knees, and pressed the nails of his left thumb and left forefinger into his gums hard enough to bring blood, (75). I chose this quote because it was after Victor Pascows death and it was very descriptive.
He held her and rocked her, believing, rightly or wrongly, that Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to argument or to a little girls tears; that she wept over its cruel unpredictability; and she wept because of the human beings wonderful, deadly ability to translate symbols into conclusions that were either fine and noble or blackly terrifying. If all those animals had died and been buried, then Church could die (51). I chose this passage cause I liked it a lot. I like what kind is saying about death and how humans deal with it, and then relating it back to the story about his daughter and foreshadowing the death of Church.
The nasty death of Victor Pascow on the first day of the fall semester began to fade in the memory of the student body and in Louis own. Pascows family no doubt still grieved, (103). This quote stood out to me because of how long it took for the shocking image of death to start to disappear from ones head. It was as worst of a first day one can encounter and Im sure that memories of death can fade, but will surely never disappear completely.

I liked this book more than most books Ive ever read. Kings style seems to fit me with the description and facts he uses, but he uses these tactics without letting the story get boring. I cant relate to the book much besides the fact of death, which everyone can relate to. Everyone has lost a family member or a pet, and this book makes me wonder whether I would bury either of them in a cemetery that would reanimate them back to life.