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The novel re-works your case earliest noticed inside King's previously brief story, Night Surf (included inside quick tale group Night Shift ). The work of fiction is made up of the first published reference point in order to King's ber-villain Randall Flagg. Flagg in addition appears around King's dream story Dark Tower series.

The building history with the book is definitely distinctive in this it had been re-released seeing that The Stand : The Complete & Uncut Edition in 1990. This copy renewed a few wording in the beginning edited for brevity, put in some brand-new areas and also modified others, and transformed the particular setting on the novel from your beginning eighties to the beginning 1990s.

Synopsis Edit

The adventure will begin with the demise regarding almost all human population regarding North America (and, presumably, the world) pursuing the particular escape and distribute of your man-made biological marker (a superflu virus) regarded formally since "Project Blue" along with colloquially, on the west coast, because "Captain Trips". 99.4 percent associated with people are especially prone that will Trips, plus the condition provides a fatality rate charge associated with 100 percent. This first segment on the work of fiction takes place around 19 nights as well as charts your entire break down plus damage regarding contemporary society in some quite video scenes.

The novel continues, around part two, together with your intertwining cross-country odysseys of the tiny range regarding survivors, which include some sort of pregnant higher education student (Frances Goldsmith), a laid-off factory worker from Texas (Stuart Redman), an excellent classes outcast (Harold Lauder), a deaf-mute wanderer (Nick Andros), a disappointed undo musician (Larry Underwood), including a pessimistic sociology professor (Glen Bateman). They are usually drawn together by their own distributed dreams of your aging adults email woman whom they observe since a refuge. This woman, Abagail Freemantle (known as 'Mother Abagail'), results in being that psychic leader regarding this particular group of survivors, who begin to attempt to re-establish your democratic society in the Colorado smaller population center regarding Boulder. Meanwhile, another class associated with survivors such as the end thief (Lloyd Henreid), a strong arsonist (Trashcan Man), and also the ex-chief with the Santa Monica PD (Barry Dorgan) tend to be moved to Las Vegas, Nevada by another entity, a good wicked staying having supernatural influence called Randall Flagg, that "dark man," as well as the "walkin' dude." Flagg's principle will be tyrannical and brutal yet effective.

In part three, that cycle is placed intended for a final confrontation because the not one but two camps become aware of just one another, along with just about every recognizes another as a menace to it is survival, resulting to ' the stand ' from the great resistant to the unpleasant in addition to concerning a salvaged nuclear weapon.

Confirmed influence on LostEdit

Charlie has a resemblance to The Stand's assisting personality Larry Underwood through his status for a musician and drug abuse issues. According to be able to Damon Lindelof, that freelance writers designed Charlie being a "homage for you to Larry Underwood."

In The Stand (and various other King works), antagonist Randall Flagg, also known as the particular Man around Black, can be King's personification in the universe's broker of evil. Said Damon Lindelof in 2004, "We're definitely not misdirecting people on Terry O' Quinn's Flagg-esque (Walter using worlds) qualities. but with any luck , he has bought a number of big surprises available regarding everyone." The most important villain throughout Lost appeared referred to as , as well as he took Locke's form.

Similarities plus discussed themesEdit

As noted above, the actual creates explicitly modeled Charlie upon Larry Underwood as well as given Locke features reminiscent associated with Flagg.

On a new larger level, together tales start with the particular theme of strangers forming a brand new modern society jointly immediately after disaster. Unity plus assistance tend to be substantial themes both in works. In Lost, Jack famously states this "If we can not live together, we're likely to cease to live alone." This will be paralleled throughout The Stand because of the line, "If some people slept alone, they would perish alone", a concept attributed to help Nadine.

Both testimonies engaged performance adjacent pregnancy, along with characters fearing that your infant blessed to an individual mummy could be susceptible to a elegant illness. Vivid are a regular concept both in the guide plus the show.

The field inside "Ab Aeterno " when the Man with Black gives a strong locked up Richard resembles a scene from your Stand where the Man throughout Black opens Lloyd Henreid out of prison. Damon plus Carlton acknowledged this likeness on the Official Lost Podcast .

Sam Anderson who seem to works Bernard even offers a new element in the actual Mini-Series adaptation in the Stand when Whitney Horgan.

Both succeeds uneasy nuclear bombs; in the podcast shortly prior to a Season a few finale, Damon and also Carlton gifted the particular name "Trashcan Man" because a hint into the finalized outcome associated with , some sort of reference to Trashcan Man accidentally detonating a good Atomic bomb within Las Vegas.

See additionally Edit

Apocalypse - Article on apocalyptic referrals in Lost

ReferencesEdit

Ain't It Cool News: Herc Chats Up The Co-Creator with Fall's Best New Series, ABC's LOST!! Hercules; Fall 2004