Ok, granted im only 109 pages in (I do plan on entirely finishing the book by class) and have only been reading for about two hours intermittently. The number of deaths in this book is starting to get utterly depressing and almost funny because its so surreal. Not that the deaths are funny because they are terrible and making my progress slow, but its just so unlikely that so many people are dying in such a short time period and I feel a lot of the deaths are entirely unnecessary and its almost CSI like in the sense of "Ok guys, whats a different way we can kill someone this time". Each death just makes me go, are you kidding me?
Additionally, the amount of damage people are receiving confuses me. People slamming into the wall, dome, thing makes sense. But birds? Birds hit windows all the time at flying speed and dont die. Why do they all die hitting the dome? Additionally, people hitting the wall and getting bloody noses. Unless they were practically running, I dont imagine such things happening. I mean, we have all had accidental run ins with walls, trees, door, etc (atleast I know I have) and have never gotten a bloody nose (except the one time I broke my nose). *shrug*
I will likely have more opinions once I get further in the book tomorrow.
6 comments:
I think the birds thing has a lot to do with the electric surge the Dome seems to give off. Maybe they can't handle it because they're not as big as humans.
From personal experience, I can say walking into a glass door at a normal pace can definitely result in bloody noses haha
A) screw the birds. I hate them and thought it was hilarious that they kept piling up. I mean, hello, didn't you see ol Freddy Feathers flying in front of you take the splat? Way to go birdbrain.
B)Stephen King is just screwed up like that. And I think he just killed so many people and so crazily because the whole phenomena of the dome is so crazy.
I don't think the birds thing is farfetched at all. I've had birds fly into my house and they definitely didn't live. And you have to think that the Dome is such an uncomprehendible thing that they take a while to understand what is going on. Even the humans have that problem, shown by the many people who run into the Dome even though they've seen the damage.
I think it's because at first the dome is completely invisible and only because of the buildup of things like pollen and dust can the dome be seen.
I think that the electromagnetic effect of the dome is an interesting hypothesis. However, I agree that the impact enough should be enough to kill the birds.
Bailey, I think you are being a bit harsh on the birds. They did nothing to deserve such a death.
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