Phone Crazies Research Paper

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“They are getting smarter. Not on their own, but because they’re thinking together. Probably that sounds crazy, but I think it's more likely than them collecting a big pile of battery-powered FM suitcases to blast us all into loony-land.” (King,122)

This quotes gives a fascinating imagery the ‘phone crazies’ seem to have evolved and have found a need for music as they sleep. King gets readers into the apocalyptic world by using key phrases such as ‘looney-land” in order to convey the eerie and unsettling use of the boom boxes. Readers come to imagine a literal pile or these battery powered fm boxes. Making for a more dramatic effect insinuating the amount of phone crazies at that specific location. Having to imagine mindless zombie like creatures “thinking” together is probably one of the most unsettling feelings the novel could possible
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At first they simply carried them off into the parking lot south of the field and behind the long low brick building. They came back empty-handed.” (King, 168)

The zombie like creatures nicknamed “phone crazies” have made astonishing evolvements. They seem to have learned the unimportance of the dead and are getting rid of the bodies that stand in there way. This is key development because of how quickly they have come to understand the need for space. This shows that they are leaving the world of the mindless and entering the world of thought process and key survival skills. The phone crazies also seem to have discovered the ability to flock and follow what others are doing like a bad game of follow the leader. Eventually it seems no matter the circumstance people (even the mindless) fall back to the society they are most comfortable with. Which is usually run by one particular person showing the development of leadership and