Character Analysis: Cujo Vic Trenton

students. He continues to be one of the bestselling novelist and one of the most financially successful horror writers in history (Lusted 17).
The setting of Cujo is in a fake town called Castel Rock, Maine, where the plot mainly focuses on two families, the Trentons and the Cambers (Pette Par. 5). In Cujo Vic Trenton, a New York advertising executive tries to keep his marriage together after he finds out his wife, Donna, had an affair with Steve Kemp a playwright who has only published one book. After the affair Steve writes Vic Trenton a nasty note about his affair with Donna. After receiving the note Vic imagines their affair, which Stephen King goes into gruesome detail. (Sova 120).
The Cambers are the owners of the Saint Bernard called Cujo. The Cumbers dog, Cujo, runs into a cave and gets bit by a rabid bat on the nose. It infects Cujo with rabies as well

(Pettee Par 5). Soon after Cujo is bitten, Vic and Donna’s son Tad begins to see a monster in his closet. The monster tells Tad that he has killed and ate some people, and Tad could be next. During the book it switches to Cujos point of view and relates to his physical pain by saying his muscles ached, and he has a strong desire to kill (Sova 120).
While Vic is away on a business trip Donna needs work on her car. She drives out to the nearest local mechanic, Joe Camber with her son Tad. When Donna arrives she finds Joe Camber and his neighbor Gary Pervier killed in Pervier’s home by the Saint Bernard Cujo. Donna’s car breaks down in Joe Cambers front yard, and leaves Donna and her son stranded with the man killing rabid dog (Pettee Par 6). For three days they are trapped in her blistering hot car (Par 7).
The suspense builds with each kill.until Cujo turns his attention tos Donna and Tad trapped in their car.

Donna struggles to fight off the rabid dog and keep her son alive for two full days. Then she decides to escape and run for the house (Sova 120). During her attempt she is bitten by the Saint Bernard (Pette Par 7). When Donna come face to face with Cujo she makes a bold move by attacking him with a baseball bat, and she succeeds by killing Cujo. Afterward Tad dies from dehydration although Donna desperately tried to save him (Sova 120).
Not everyone agrees that just because a book is printed that it should be read. A challenged book is an attempt to remove books because of a person, or group of people (“Stephen King” Par 2). Banning is the removal of those books that were challenged (Par 2). Books are typically challenged to protect others that is, like younger children, but not all challenged books are successful (Par 3). Challenging books can result in banning a book or do nothing at all (Dell 6). If enough people protest the challenge then the book may end up not getting banned (Mullally

14).
Banning books happen in many countries around the world. The most common reasoning for banning books is because of religion, political, social or sexual grounds (11). For one week in September libraries and bookstores have the freedom to display any banned book, its known as “Banned Book Week” (56).
Books have been banned for as long as they have been written. In 360 B.C., Pluto was the first to think of the idea of banning books (Mullally Par 2). Around 1650 a religious pamphlet by William Pynchon was taken by Puritan authorities in Massachusetts. The books was burned by the public executioner in the Boston market place. The incident is the first book-banning In America (Par 5).
A while later, in 1872 Anthony Comstock was a pioneer of modern American censorship. By the time of 1873 he was using slogans like “Moralls, not art literature”. He eventually convinced congress to pass a law known as “Comstock Law” which banned the mailings that were “lewd, indecent, filthy or obscene”. Between 1874 and 1915 a special agent of the U.S. Post Office estimated to have confiscated 120 tons of printed works. That special agent had 3,500 people prosecuted but only 350 were convicted (Par 6.) The American Library Association documented that 6,000 books were challenged between the year of 1990 and 2000 (Par 8).
A number of Stephen King’s books were banned because of language, sex scenes, and violence (Dawn B. 121). 1991 in Peru, Indiana a school superintendent recommended that only three of his novels be available with parents’ permission (Herbert N. 197). The school board voted 5 to 1 to completely ban Cujo, Dead zone, and Christine. A school in Portland received complaints about the book Cujo because of profanity and sexual content (198). The complaining parent said she didn’t want her son reading King’s books after reading portions of Cujo (Herbert N. 198). In April 1992 there was a request to remove all books of Stephen King from libraries. Cujo was banned in 1984 and 1985 by schools in Alabama, Mississippi, New York, and California (Daniel Par 2).
Always pushing the limits, Stephen King made a mark of the literary scene with his violent and dark tales such as Cujo. Pushing boundaries helped King revolutionized the horror genre. Not being afraid to take risk can payoff in the end.