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Stephen King – the ranking
11. The Dead Zone (1979, German: “The Attentat”) ★★★★ ½
King is a convinced democrat, but does not believe in the promises of politicians. He despises Nixon, does not surprise himself about Watergate and can be extensively assumed to the mistakes of the Vietnam War. The author had not yet appeared so politically.
Harsch is also his gaze here: a teacher with clairvoyant skills has set himself the goal of stopping a presidential applicant who will trigger the Third World War.
The “Dead Zone” shooter was a hero
In the end, the malignant politician gets his departure himself, in the most imaginably inhumane way.
John Smith is a teacher, and as the name suggests, a thoroughly normal type-with a good heart, which makes him one of the most touching figures from the King cosmos.
The man grows on his responsibility for the clairvoyant gift. And if it costs him his life, it would be almost all the more joy if you would not lose his fortune telling him. King said he wanted to reverse a myth of evil: with the murder of John F. Kennedy, the “shooter in an increased position” was also considered an assassin with misanthropic motifs. The high -lying shooter Smith was a hero.
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King created another sympathizer with the supporting figure of the Sheriff Bannerman, with whose investigation in murder cases around Castle Rock Smith. In “Cujo” we will meet him again.
Greg Stillson, that is the name of the criminal presidential applicant – and since Donald Trump was in power in America, not only John Smith, but also Stephen King has been attributed to clairvoyant skills.
Just like “Big Jim Rennie” (from “Under the Dome”), Stillson is one, whose rise seemed incredibly seemed, but in the end in the end with persistence. After the election of Trump as US President, King often commented on both literary characters.
“45 Years Ago I Wrote A Book About Donald Trump. It was Called the Dead Zone. I Named Him Gregson,” King wrote on Twitter on October 01. “45 years ago I wrote a book about Donald Trump. It was called” The Dead Zone “. I called Greg Stillson ”. Hopefully read enough Americans to read books.