Although Stephen King is known as a horror novelist, the works he has written in different genres for the last 20 years are still read as masterpieces and serials are adapted into movies. The novel “ The Institute ” also touched on an unusual subject.
It is a pleasure to follow the cross links between his books set in the US state of Maine. Shine , O, Dark Tower, 22/11/63 , Green Mile, Judgment, etc.
Although the Institute book is a thick volume, it can be considered thin compared to the novel Under the Dome, which he also wrote. 615 pages.
We find the strongest element we look for in Stephen King novels. Don’t be in the story, don’t be a part of the children’s drama by leaving the world. Perhaps the greatest achievement of the book is that it draws attention to children who are kidnapped, run away from home and fall into difficult conditions around the world every year.
Besides, when you look at it, it’s not a Shining Psychic or even “It” at all. We do not have such a great work before us. The Dark Tower does not have multi-layered, multi-dimensional richness, but there is sincerity in the Green Mile series that spreads it to society.
Is it easy to read? I took a break after the first 70 pages, it turned out that the rest was flowing like water. It is very fluid, but some parts are unnecessarily extended. Despite this, he finished his reading in two days.
Theme of the Institute Book
To summarize, without spoilers, 800,000 children go missing in the United States every year. Even if we consider the overall US population to be around 330 million, it’s too much. Some of these children come back home, some run away from home and live with great difficulty. But some of them can never be found.
I know what you can think of, it is a very creepy picture, organ mafia, human slavery, sexual abuse… It is terrifying to even think about.
One of the main protagonists of the book is an ex-cop, Tim begins the adventure in which he will take part in a big incident with the plane he landed on with a ticket refund and plus money on a trip. We see together the process of starting a job in a small town for the guard job.
The protagonist of the story, Luke Ellis, is a gifted twelve-year-old boy. He is so smart that there is talk of going to college.
There is one aspect of Luke that he and his family try to ignore, which is that sometimes objects like the pizza box next to him move.
The adventure flows fast and with a shocking succession of events. I look forward to the future of a movie adaptation.
Stephen King answers questions about the book in the studio.
Book page on Stephen King’s Web site
https://stephenking.com/works/novel/institute.html
The Institute, Press Release Book Introduction and Imprint
The Institute
RELEASED
September 2019
AVAILABLE FORMAT(S)
Hardcover / eBook
PUBLISHER
Scribner
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”
In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.
As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is Stephen King’s gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don’t always win.
On Sale: September 10th, 2019
Page Count: 576
