The Long Walk

The Long Walk
Steven King
Pages 71-376

What a book. I think that this book is not really about how brutal people are, but the test of human endurence and love. How far can these kids push them selves and how do you walk past your dieing friends or your friend that has fallen and is about to be shot. How can you watch, knowing you could do something. How long until you go out of your mind. Near the end of the book, several boys simply go crazy. They just run and scream for the pain to stop. One boy litterally ripped his own throat out. Some boys just sat down and would not get up. The main character however set himself a goal that really got him through the whole walk. This goal was not to servive or to win. This goal ment nothing for everyone else because only one person can win, one in one hundred. Garrety kept telling himself to get to the one spot where he would see his family. This spot was about two hundred miles in and most of the boys had already gone down by this point. When he sees them, he relizes he is not surviving for his victory, but for there joy. So his family can see him again.

I read the last one hundred and fifty pages of this book one night when I was suppost to be asleep,(one in the morning) and I think this is just because this book was just so well writen. The little things make this book though. I feel that the most powerful part of the whole book was when the main character, Garrety, walked out of his shoes. They were just gone.

I feel that this was easily the best book I have ever read.