Thursday, October 1, 1992
Gerald's Game
Horror's latest past time
by Pamela Baccus
The Collegian
Gerald's Game is the newest
release from the master of horror,
Stephen King. The main
characters of the novel are Jessie
and Gerald Burlingame. Jessie is
the protagonist who is also a
very strong character because
although she is placed under an
incredible amount of pressure,
she doesn't break. She changes.
Gerald, her husband, is the
antagonist, he goes insane, while
they play a typical sex game,
when he locks her up to the
bedposts, and ignores her
demands to be set free.
The plot of the story centers
around Jessie's life. It centers
around how she was abused as a
child at the family's summer
home and never got over it. This
key piece of the plot allows you
to see that Jessie never gets over
how her father abused her. It also
shows that whenever Jessie is
faced with the possibility of
telling what he did to her, she
turns away in shame over how
guilty she felt.
She feels this way because
her father brainwashed her. He
threatened to tell her mother what
happened. When he finally told
that he wouldn't tell, he had her
controlled to the point that she
would never tell. It is part of the
reason that these voices are
eating away at her now. The
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voices that helped her live
through the trauma of her youth.
The voices kept trying to
convince her that it wasn't her
fault and that she should just
forget it and go on with living
her life. This might have worked
if another event had not happened
bringing it even more in focus.
The scene was her brother's
birthday party two years later.
Her brother goosed her as his
friends were egging him on,
Jessie turned around and slugged
him in the mouth.
These events lead to what
would later happen in the book.
Her being chained to the bed and
her eventual escape lead to the
recuperation that she has needed
since she was a child.
Your previous reading of
Stephen King novels will not
prepare you for what you face as
you read this book. The scariest
thing about this book is that a
fear from the past can relate to
one of the present and have an
incredible impact on the reader.
Could this fear make the heroine
give up on life? Can a woman
who had survived so much, still
survive the greatest trauma of her
life?
Those questions can only be
answered when you read the
book. The terror Jessie goes
through is horrible, can you as a
mere reader stand up to the same
fears found in this book?
Share your concerns and
comments with us!
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The Collegian
Beauty and the Beast
Love in the Enchanted Forest
by Victoria Sousa
The Collegian
What do a beautiful
bookworm, a boisterous bully,
an overbearing mantel clock, a
charming candel-abra, a
motherly teapot, and a boyish
beast all have in common?
Well, together they make up the
characters of Disney's latest
animated feature Beauty and the
Beast, now playing on campus
as the Student Programming
Council's movie of the week.
"The story off Belle and the Beast is a well known fairy-tale.
Disney, however, makes Belle...more of a woman of the SO's...”
The story of Belle and the
Beast is a well known fairy-tale.
Disney, however, makes Belle
(who's voice is provided by
theatrical music star Paige
O'Hara) more of a woman of the
80's trapped in the 18th century.
She longs for something more
than what society will allow and
searches for it in books.
The town stud, Gaston
(Richard White) has different
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plans for our lovely Belle. He
is determinded to make her his
bride; for only she is beautiful
enough for him.
Once Belle is in the clutches
of the Beast (who's voice is
provided by Robby Benson), she
begins to see that beneath that
tough exterior, her captor is
nothing more than a kitty cat.
Helping them both along the
way are the Beast's enchanted
staff: Lumiere, the candelabra;
Cogsworth, the mantel clock,
and Mrs. Potts the teapot (with
voices provided by Jerry Orbach,
David Ogden Stiers, and Angela
Lansbury respective-ly.)
Thanks to Disney magic,
Beauty and the Beast has never
looked better. For this, the
studio's 30th animated feature,
the Disney team combined
animation and computer
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depth of a scene and literally
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