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WEEK TWELVE: Misery (Book I, chapter 1 - Book II, chapter 17)

1) Why might King include Book I, Chapter 1 rather than just beginning his novel with Book I, Chapter 2?

2) Paul states of his writing: "The subject dictates the form (p.21)."  How true is this of King's writing style in the novel so far?

3) What is the importance of parents in the book so far?

4) What emotion seems to take center stage in terms of plot and character development in the first half of the novel?

5) Why might King choose to use the terms "rape" (pp. 5-6) or "castrate" (p. 89) in such unusual ways in this novel?

6) How might snow OR the missing "n" in the typewriter function symbolically in the novel?

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