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

great machines capable of thee impossible. The shed was a special place where the most secret machines were; Bobby and two other men had been taking trips to the shed, their skin turned a transparent, their bodies unrecognizable. This all led to the becoming of the whole town and the slow deadly spread of the toxic air.

To begin one way I relate to the book is my work ethic.

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

stop.

Another connection I can make is between The Tommyknockers and another Stephen King book Insomnia. In Insomnia a girl named Bobby falls in love with a man named Ralph. Together they begin to see thing that aren't there and end up saving their town from strange creatures. In Then Tommyknockers a girl named Bobby is in love with a man named Guard. Together they dig up a craft, which causes them to change along with their town. Both books have a similar plot, two people in love go through changes and work together. Also both female main character were named Bobby. This was often confusing because I had read the novels back to back.

Next I made a text to world connection, connecting the way the towns peoples bodys reformed and how the zika virus is causing deformities.

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

gushing.

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. There were several connections I made with the book as I read. Overall the book was a complex confusing yet amazing work by Stephen King. I look forward to reading more of his books and getting caught up in the mysteries. Knock. Knock. “I hear the Tommyknockers knocking at my door. I want to go out, don't know if I can, because i'm so afraid of the Tommyknockers man.”