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The story re-works your scenario primary affecting King's before simple story, Night Surf (included in the simple adventure variety Night Shift ). The work of fiction consists of the 1st released reference to be able to King's ber-villain Randall Flagg. Flagg likewise seems within King's fantasy novel Dark Tower series.

The publishing history from the publication will be special for the reason that it had been re-released while The Stand : The Complete & Uncut Edition with 1990. This edition restored many text message at first edited intended for brevity, added many brand-new divisions in addition to revised others, as well as transformed that location with the novel from this early on nineteen-eighties into the early on 1990s.

Synopsis Edit

The account starts using the passing of most of the adult population of North America (and, presumably, the actual world) next your escape and pass on of any man-made natural weapon (a superflu virus) known basically since "Project Blue" along with colloquially, on the particular to the west coast, since "Captain Trips". 99.4 percent connected with persons are prone to Trips, as well as disorder features a mortality rate associated with hundred percent. This primary section of the book comes about through 19 days and nights and also charts the sum of breakdown and devastation of culture using extremely artwork scenes.

The story continues, throughout component two, considering the intertwining cross-country odysseys connected with the tiny lots of survivors, which includes a expecting higher education college student (Frances Goldsmith), a laid-off manufacturing plant staff member from Texas (Stuart Redman), a new graduation outcast (Harold Lauder), a deaf-mute wanderer (Nick Andros), a dissatisfied crop up musician (Larry Underwood), plus a pessimistic sociology tutor (Glen Bateman). They usually are drawn jointly simply by their own contributed dreams of your elderly psychic person whom they will find as being a refuge. This woman, Abagail Freemantle (known as 'Mother Abagail'), gets to be your religious chief on this party of survivors, exactly who begin to make an attempt to re-establish a democratic contemporary society inside Colorado village connected with Boulder. Meanwhile, an additional number of survivors as well as the end crook (Lloyd Henreid), an arsonist (Trashcan Man), plus the ex-chief in the Santa Monica PD (Barry Dorgan) are usually drawn to Las Vegas, Nevada by way of one more entity, a strong evil being by using unnatural influence referred to as Randall Flagg, the "dark man," or the particular "walkin' dude." Flagg's rule will be tyrannical and also brutal still effective.

In portion three, this stage is focused for the ultimate confrontation for the reason that a couple of camps discover one another, and each one recognizes other as a danger to its survival, major in order to ' the stand ' from the very good from the evil plus involving a salvaged nuclear weapon.

Confirmed affect about LostEdit

Charlie appears like The Stand 's supporting nature Larry Underwood through his position for a musician in addition to chemical neglect issues. According to Damon Lindelof, your copy writers created Charlie as an "homage for you to Larry Underwood."

In The Stand (and other King works), antagonist Randall Flagg, also known as the Man throughout Black, is actually King's personification on the universe's agent regarding evil. Said Damon Lindelof throughout 2004, "We're definitely not misdirecting people on Terry O' Quinn's Flagg-esque (Walter in certain worlds) qualities. but with any luck , he's got many big surprises available for everyone." The major villain inside Lost ended up often known as , and this individual procured Locke's form.

Similarities plus shared themesEdit

As listed above, that yields explicitly modeled Charlie on Larry Underwood and also given Locke attributes reminiscent with Flagg.

On a new much larger level, each memories start with this theme involving guests building a new contemporary culture along immediately after disaster. Unity in addition to assistance tend to be significant themes or templates both in works. In Lost, Jack famously expresses which "If all of us can't are living together, we've been visiting expire alone." This can be paralleled in The Stand simply by the particular line, "If some people spent the nights alone, they would perish alone", your believed caused by Nadine.

Both stories concerned episode around pregnancy, along with characters fearing that the youngster born with a solo mother might be somewhat insecure to some tasteful illness. Vivid can be a frequent motif in both the actual book and the actual show.

The field around "Ab Aeterno " in which the Man within Black delivers an imprisoned Richard is just like your landscape in the Stand where the Man in Black opens Lloyd Henreid from prison. Damon and also Carlton identified this specific similarity for the Official Lost Podcast .

Sam Anderson whom plays Bernard in addition features a section inside Mini-Series difference from the Stand when Whitney Horgan.

Both works concerned nuclear bombs; in the podcast shortly just before this Season 5 finale, Damon and Carlton bought the name "Trashcan Man" when a hint towards ultimate results connected with , a referrals in order to Trashcan Man accidentally detonating an Atomic bomb throughout Las Vegas.

See also Edit

Apocalypse - Article on apocalyptic referrals in Lost

ReferencesEdit

Ain't It Cool News: Herc Chats Up The Co-Creator associated with Fall's Best New Series, ABC's LOST!! Hercules; Fall 2004