Journal Post #2

Emerging from this book is a very significant theme and that is working together to get to a main goal which is staying alive. The townspeople need to try and stick together and not use all the power, share, and not go off and do things that weren’t agreed upon. Although, this doesn’t happen because everyone has their own plans and the towns officials are stealing from the town’s supply of propane.

Barbie has been put into a situation between his past and the present. Before moving to Chester Mill, he worked for the military and was successful at his job. Once there, he was beaten up by a group of the town official’s sons but the story was twisted to make it sound like he was the instigator. His new problem is that the president has told him he must take over the town but such a task in merely impossible due to his situation. He deals with this problem by using the local newspaper and one of the few town officials that don’t hate him. Using confrontation, he talks to Rennie and explains himself. Although Barbie doesn’t know that Rennie has other ideas for him, he believes he might actually have a chance.

Stephen King declares that “an idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it” (p.206). I thought this quote was appealing because it is true not only to this book but also to life in general. This quote shows importance because there are many ideas being thrown around by the town officials about what to do about the main problem and trying to find a way to destroy the Dome. This is significant to me because I can relate to it because someone comes up with an idea of some kind and then everybody agrees with it and thinks it was their idea.