Character Analysis

Through out the story one of the main characters, Barbie, is forcefully thrust into a new situation as he begins to search into the reasons that a giant dome has suddenly encased the whole town. As we follow him around, but continue to switch between characters, we learn a little more about Barbie and his personality. Where I am at in the book, we haven't learned to terribly much about him, but we can still inference things about him. This quote describes part of his personality well, "It was plain old moving on that had lightened him up. He had been walking around under his own little gray cloud for at least two weeks now..." (King 25). I think this quote shows well that he is the drifter type, the type to breeze through town after town and never look back, which also may explain his sadness and implied loneliness. But I think this will start to change as he spends more time trapped in Chester Mills and has to work with others to try and figure out what's going on.

Book Related to song

As I keep reading the book, I am thinking more and more that this town is being saved by the dome from a coming attack by something on the rest of the country or even the world, but that's just a thought. Anyway, as I was reading my mind suddenly related this thought to a song that I know. Most of you won't know this song(it's from the 70's), but its by the same group that did "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" and "Veteran Of The Psychic Wars". I have included a link to the lyrics and a link to the youtube video.

"Sole Survivor" By Blue Oyster Cult

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/b/blue_oyster_cult/sole_survivor.html

Movies Vs Books

I like the book so far, after seeing the trailer for the show I would like to see that too. I think it would be interesting to compare and contrast the differences between the two, that way I could think of the book in a different way and decide which one I liked better. Like when I read I am Number Four Then I saw the movie, I really liked the book, so when the movie came around I saw it but was dissapointed because of how much detail it lacked.

Reading skills

As I finish the 12th chapter of the book I begin to think of how the rest of the book will be laid out. The book spent the first 12 chapters jumping through 5 different characters points of view and explaining how the day went that the dome fell over the town. Based on this, I predict that the book will spend the rest of the time switching between points of view until the characters meet each other later on in the book.the main reasons that I think this are the fact that books I have read before that have had the same sort of introduction tend to do this, and that before I got the book, I read a comment on Goodreads that had a part of it saying how the book spends the opening introducing characters and how they didn't care for the setup of the book.  I'm still asking myself if the author is going to have the characters meet up early on in the book or if they will meet later. Also, if they can hear one another through the dome, then why is it so hard to penetrate?


This is the trailer for the TV show inspired by the book i'm reading. when I watched it I saw some similarities and some differences.

Independent reading Novel post 1

This is the first post on my new independent reading novel, Under The Dome. I have never really been a fan of Stephen King books so far but I think that this book could be a good choice to read. All the reviews that I have read on goodreads recommend this book, so I thought, why not give it a chance. i thought that it was an interesting concept. the only other place i had seen an idea like this was in "The Simpsons Movie", which I did enjoy but this book will put a nice, darker spin on the idea and should make a good story. I like to read books with significant, concealed mysteries and everything I have read about and read in the book point to this being the case.