The Tommyknockers Sparknotes

The Tommyknockers

The novel The Tommyknockers by Stephen King is a book about the town Haven, Arizona and a series of unfortunate events occurring in the early 2000’s. It all started with Bobby Anderson, a frail women in her mid forties had tripped over something in the woods. She began to dig requesting the help of her friend/ lover named Guard. The further they dug the stranger the side effects of the people in town grew; bloody noses and rotting teeth were only the beginning. They were aware of what they were uncovering from the earth's crust, they knew the alien craft was causing changes to the earth around them. Then the more severe side effects began, the towns people could communicate through their minds and started building these

Bobby and Guard dug the ship us for two weeks with no rest and almost died due to exhaustion. In sports I tend to push myself a little too much. For example, track sixth grade I had extreme heel pain and did not do anything about it for weeks.I finally told my parents and went to the doctor to discover I had a broken growth plate and had been running on iit for weeks. Another instance happened when I broke my toe and sprained my ankle in basketball. I ignored the problem until I absolutely had to

In The Tommyknockers the toxic green air like disease had caused the towns people to become sick, and eventually reform to a whole nother being. As I type, in Africa children are being born with deformities due to a disease. If the disease in Africa continues to spread it will become a global epidemic much line the toxic air in Haven. Most likely the spread of the disease will be due to outsiders coming and going which was the case in the book.

Lastly I can relate to the book because of my horrendous bloody noses. In the novel it reads “Blood gushed from Eddies nose like a faucet turned on high,” page 536. I often get bloody serveral bloody noses within a few months. When I get a bloody nose there's no stopping it, it is exactly like a faucet turned on high. My bloody noses are often due to the dry air; in the book their bloody noses are due to the toxic air. I really felt the character pain when the book described the way their nose just kept on gushing, and