Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
213,577
edits
Dreamcatcher (novel): Difference between revisions
no edit summary
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (fixed ridiculously overcoded links (thank you, visual editor!), moved trivia tropes to that page) |
No edit summary |
||
| (6 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{work}}
{{Multiple Works Need Separate Pages}} MOD: Although this page is explicitly marked as being about the novel, tropes about the 2003 film have been added to it and to its subpages. The film needs to be broken out into its own page, especially given how much it varies from the novel.}}
[[File:dreamca_8381.jpg|frame]]'''''Dreamcatcher''''' is a novel written by [[Stephen King]]. ▼
{{Infobox book
| title = Dreamcatcher
| original title = Cancer
| image = dreamca_8381.jpg
| caption =
| author = Stephen King
| central theme =
| elevator pitch =
| genre = Science fiction, Horror
| publication date = February 20, 2001
| wiki URL =
| wiki name =
}}
Gary Ambrose "Jonesy" Jones, Pete Moore, Joe "Beaver" Clarendon and Henry Devlin are for lifelong friends. As kids, they saved Douglas "Duddits" Cavell, a boy with Down syndrome, from a group of bullies.
Line 23 ⟶ 38:
* [[General Ripper]]: Kurtz.
* [[Inspirationally Disadvantaged]]: Duddits is of the Type C variety.
* [[Insult Backfire]]: Played straight and subverted in the same scene. Mr. Gray tries to make small talk with Jonesy while he is looking for Pete. When Jonesy called him out for killing {{Spoiler| Beaver,}} Mr. Gray apathetically dismissed it due to Beaver having nothing in his mind that was useful to him. Jonesy, naturally pissed, throws a [[Precision F-Strike]] at Mr. Gray. Instead of being offended, Mr. Gray is excited to hear the phrase, because he saw it in Jonesy's memory warehouse. However when Jonesy insults him again and mentions him by name, Mr. Gray gets serious and interrogates him.
{{Quote|'''Jonesy:''' FUCK YOU!!
'''Mr. Gray:''' I know what that expression means. I studied the foul language section of your memory warehouse. Rather distasteful I must say.
'''Jonesy:''' How about this Mr. Gray, eat shit and die.
'''Mr. Gray:''' Why did you call me Mr. Gray. Did someone tell you about me? WHO TOLD YOU ABOUT ME!?}}
* [[Nice Guy]]: Henry, Beaver, Pete and Jonesy when they were kids. They were more than willing to stop bullies from brutally picking on Duddits, despite not knowing him personally. Special mention goes to Kid Beaver who manages to calm a still scared Duddits down by singing Blue Bayou. Once grown up Henry and Pete [[Took a Level in Jerkass|downgrade]] to [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Jerks with a Hearts of Gold]].
** Adult Jonesy still retains his nice guy attitude as a school teacher. He gives one of his students who he caught cheating on a test; a second chance to make it up to him, when he used his telepathy to find out the student, who was on scholarship has a poor upbringing. Said student was one of the witnesses to the horrific car accident that nearly killed Jonesy and is heartbroken when he thinks his teacher might die.
Line 44 ⟶ 64:
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Works by Stephen King]]
[[Category:Horror Literature]]
[[Category:Science Fiction Literature]]
[[Category:Literature]]
[[Category:
[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]
[[Category:Films Based on Novels]]
[[Category:Literature of the 2000s]]
▲[[Category:Film]]
| |||