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Cell

Author	Stephen King
Cover artist	Mark Stutzman
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Horror novel
Publisher	Scribner
Publication date	January 2006
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	355 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0-7432-9233-2

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Plot summary

The Pulse

It is the afternoon of October 1, and a struggling young artist named Clayton Riddell has finally caught a break, which is good news for him, his estranged wife and their young son Johnny. He has come to Boston and landed a lucrative comic book deal, offering the likelihood that he can go from teaching art to making it. As he waits in line at a Boston Common ice cream truck for a celebratory treat, Clay's life, and the life of every human on Earth, changes forever. Somebody, somewhere, triggers "The Pulse", a signal sent out over the global cell-phone network which instantly strips any cell-phone user of their reason and humanity, locking them into a merciless homicidal frenzy. In minutes, civilization crumbles as the masses of "phoner" victims attack each other and any unaltered "normals" in view. Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Image:Boston common Boston Massachusetts USA.jpg Boston Common in 2005, with the State House looming in the background 1890 Map of Boston Common and the adjacent Public Garden View of the Water Celebration, on Boston Common, October 25th 1848 Boston Common Engraving For the television series, see Boston Common... A typical ice cream van; this one is in London. ... Motorola T2288 mobile phone A mobile phone is a portable electronic device which behaves as a normal telephone whilst being able to move over a wide area (compare cordless phone which acts as a telephone only within a limited range). ...

In the case of Clay, the business-woman at the head of the ice cream line savagely lunges at the truck driver, only to have her throat torn out by the teenage girl behind her. Clay knocks out the attacking girl with the heavy glass paperweight he had previously bought for his wife. Cars begin crashing on all sides, people start jumping from the upper stories of the Four Seasons hotel across the street, and a string of ever-larger explosions rock the city. One of Boston's open-topped tourist Duck Boats, now piloted by a raving lunatic, crushes the ice cream truck. A swarm of police and fire vehicles arrive at the hotel, only to be hit by the jumpers. Witnessing all of this with Clay is a short mustached man named Tom McCourt. The two of them are attacked by a knife-wielding phoner but Clay manages to knock the man to the ground long enough for a policeman to appear and shoot the attacker dead. The cop and his fellow officers are then summoned to Logan Airport. Clay, realizing the cause of all of this, warns the departing policeman not to use any cell phones. Paperweights made for the collector are of solid glass, generally having a flat base and a domed top, which acts Rick Ayotte Fruit Weight something like a lens to magnify and make the parts within move in an interesting and attractive way as it is handled. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... DUKW DUKW for the Boston Duck Tour The DUKW (popularly pronounced DUCK) is a six-wheel-drive amphibious truck that was originally designed inside General Motors Corporation during World War II for transporting goods and troops over land and water and for use approaching and crossing beaches in amphibious attacks. ... FAA diagram of Logan Airport Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport, in the East Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the 20 busiest airports in the U.S., with 22 million passengers a year using its 43 airlines. ...

Clay and Tom make their way to Clay's hotel. There they are joined by a teenaged girl named Alice Maxwell, whom Clay saves from another attacking phoner. The three of them decide they have to get out of Boston, as the chaos outside is only getting worse. They set out on foot for Tom's house, located in the Boston suburb of Malden. While the city burns to the ground behind them, the journey proves to be not only successful but almost peaceful; the Pulse victims have all mysteriously dropped out of sight. Location in Massachusetts Coordinates: Country United States State Massachusetts County Middlesex County Settled 1640 Incorporated 1649 Government  - Type Mayor-council city  - Mayor Richard C. Howard Area  - City  5. ...

Flocks and Flock-Killers

The next morning the trio discovers that the phoners, while still engaging in spasms of violence, have reappeared and begun "flocking", migrating in lockstep in front of Tom's home, only to disappear once again as night falls. They are also beginning to regain a semblance of intelligence: three of them raid Tom's vegetable garden. Despite these new developments, Clay is unalterably determined to return home to Johnny in Maine. Having no better alternatives, the other two come with him, after they all stock up on firepower from the home of the neighborhood gun enthusiast. Migration occurs when living things move from one biome to another. ... Official language(s) None (English and French de facto) Capital Augusta Largest city Portland Area  Ranked 39th  - Total 33,414 sq mi (86,542 km²)  - Width 210 miles (338 km)  - Length 320 miles (515 km)  - % water 13. ...

They trek north by night across a devastated New England, having fleeting encounters with other "normie" survivors and catching disturbing hints about the activities of the phoners, who are still attacking non-phoners on sight. Crossing the border into New Hampshire, they find themselves at the Gaiten Academy, a prep school with one remaining teacher, the kindly but definitely "old school" Charles Ardai (or simply "The Head"), and one pupil, a very bright boy named Jordan. The two of them show Clay and his friends where the local phoner flock goes at night: packing its components into the Academy's soccer field like sardines, "switched off" until morning. The Head also demonstrates that the phoners have become a hive mind, and are developing psychic and telekinetic abilities. The five of them decide that they have no choice but to destroy the flock, before its powers grow even stronger. They do this by parking two propane tankers on the soccer field, waiting for the flock to settle in for the night and blowing up the vehicles with a shot from a revolver. Clay tries to get everyone to flee the resulting scene of carnage, but The Head is too elderly to travel, and the others, particularly Jordan, refuse to leave him. Official language(s) English Capital Concord Largest city Manchester Area  Ranked 46th  - Total 9,359 sq mi (24,239 km²)  - Width 68 miles (110 km)  - Length 190 miles (305 km)  - % water 3. ... A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school (usually abbreviated to preparatory school, college prep school, or prep school) is a private secondary school designed to prepare a student for higher education. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... Sardines can refer to: The plural of sardine, a species of fish. ... A hive mind (sometimes spelled hivemind) is a form of collective consciousness strongly exhibiting traits of conformity and groupthink. ... A Shell Jet A refueller truck on the ramp at Vancouver International Airport. ...

The sleep that follows is filled with horrific dreams, in which everyone sees themselves standing on a platform in the middle of a stadium, surrounded by hundreds of the phoners who telepathically broadcast a grim threat in Latin. A disheveled African-American man wearing a Harvard University hooded sweatshirt then approaches, bringing their death with him. Waking from this dream, the heroes compare notes and dub him "The Raggedy Man". A new flock then appears and surrounds their residence. The trapped normies open the front door to face the flock's metaphorical spokesman: the man (or body) wearing the Harvard hoodie. The flock commits bloody reprisal on all other normals in the area, and orders the protagonists to head north to a spot in Maine called "Kashwak". To preempt one objection, the flock psychically compels the Head to commit suicide. Clay and the others bury him and travel north, mostly because Clay is still determined to go home. Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Languages Predominantly American English Religions Protestantism (chiefly Baptist and Methodist); Roman Catholicism; Islam Related ethnic groups Sub-Saharan Africans and other African groups, some with Native American groups. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Man wearing a hoodie A hoodie (also hoody, bunnyhug), at one time hooded sweatshirt, is a heavy upper-body garment with a hood. ...

En route, they learn that as "flock-killers" they have been marked as untouchables by the phoners, to be shunned by other normals. They are further disheartened to learn the phoners have now recruited normals to guard them while they "sleep". The worst blow of all hits when, following a petty squabble on the road, Alice is killed by a loutish pair of normals. Again the group buries its dead and pushes on. Arriving in Clay's hometown of Kent Pond, the remaining three discover two notes from Johnny which tell them that Clay's wife was turned into a phoner on October 1, but that his son survived for several days, before he and all the other local normies headed north to Kashwak, tricked by the phoners into thinking it was a safe haven. Clay has another nightmare which reveals that once there, they were all exposed to the Pulse by the phoners. He is still intent on finding his son, but after meeting another trio of flock-killers (Dan, a technical school teacher; a pregnant woman named Denise; and Ray, a construction worker with knowledge of explosives), Tom and Jordan plan to head west, avoiding the ceremonial executions the phoners clearly have planned. (It is also revealed that Alice's murderers were telepathically compelled into committing suicide as punishment for touching an untouchable.) This article is concerned solely with chemical explosives. ...

Kashwak

Clay sets off alone, but the others soon reappear driving a small school bus; the phoners have used their ever-increasing mental powers to force them to rejoin him. Ray secretly gives Clay a cell-phone and phone number, tells him to use them when the time is right, and shoots himself. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Kashwak is revealed to be the site of a half-assembled county fair. The travellers notice that more and more of the phoners are behaving erratically and breaking out of the flock; some (but not all) of these stragglers are promptly killed. Jordan theorizes that a rogue computer program was the source of the Pulse, and while it is still out there somewhere pumping its signal into the battery-powered cell-phone network, it has become corrupted with a computer worm, infecting the newer phoners with a mutated version of the Pulse which struck on October 1. Nevertheless, an entire army of phoners are waiting for the new arrivals; among them is the battered shell of Clay's wife, whom the artist mentally and physically pushes aside. Night falls, and the phoners lock the group in the fair's exhibition hall. For other uses of the word fair see Fair (disambiguation) Fair is the name for the gathering together of people to display or trade produce or other goods, to parade or display animals and often to enjoy associated carnival or fairground entertainment. ... A computer program is a collection of instructions that describe a task, or set of tasks, to be carried out by a computer. ... This is about the computer worm. ...

As a sleepless Clay waits for his execution the next morning, he realizes what Ray planned with the cell-phone: he covertly filled the trunk of the bus with explosives, wired a phone-triggered detonator to them, and then killed himself to prevent the phoners from telepathically discovering his plan. The heroes break a window large enough for Jordan to squeeze through, and he drives the bus into the midst of the inert phoners. Thanks to a jury-rigged cellphone patch set up by the pre-Pulse fair workers, the bomb works exactly as hoped, and another scene of mass carnage rains down. The flock has been destroyed, along with The Raggedy Man. A detonator is a device used to trigger bombs, shaped charges and other forms of explosive material and explosive devices. ...

The majority of the group heads north into Canada, to get well out of cellphone coverage and let the approaching winter wipe out the region's unprotected phoners. Clay is still looking for his son, and after making arrangements for the others to mark their trail, heads back south. Against all odds, he finds Johnny, who received a "corrupted" dose of the Pulse when he arrived at Kashwak; not only did he successfully wander off before the bomb was detonated, he seems to almost recognize his father when they meet. However, Johnny is at best an erratic shadow of his former self, and his heartbroken father is determined to help him. Following a theory of Jordan's, Clay gives Johnny another blast from the Pulse, hoping that the increasingly corrupted iterations of the Pulse will destroy each other and allow his son's brain to reset to normal. The book ends with Clay putting a cell-phone to his son's ear, repeating what he would say in pre-Pulse days to his son when there was a call for him; "Fo fo you you".

eBay auction

A role in the story was offered to the winner of a charity auction sponsored by eBay: A charitable organization (also known as a charity) is a trust, company or unincorporated association established for charitable purposes only. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... eBay headquarters in San Jose eBay North First Street satellite office campus (home to PayPal) eBay Inc. ...

"One (and only one) character name in a novel called CELL, which is now in work and which will appear in either 2006 or 2007. Buyer should be aware that CELL is a violent piece of work, which comes complete with zombies set in motion by bad cell phone signals that destroy the human brain. Like cheap whiskey, it's very nasty and extremely satisfying. Character can be male or female, but a buyer who wants to die must in this case be female. In any case, I'll require physical description of auction winner, including any nickname (can be made up, I don't give a rip)." For other uses see Zombie (disambiguation) A zombie is a kind of undead, or figuratively, a very apathetic person. ... Motorola T2288 mobile phone A mobile phone is a portable electronic device which behaves as a normal telephone whilst being able to move over a wide area (compare cordless phone which acts as a telephone only within a limited range). ...

Other authors like Peter Straub also participated in the online auction, selling roles in their upcoming books. The King auction ran between September 8 and 18, 2005 and the winner, a Ft. Lauderdale woman named Pam Alexander, paid over $20,000. Ms. Alexander gave the honor as a gift to her brother Ray Huizenga; his name was given to one of the zombie-slaughtering "flock killers" in the story, a construction worker who specializes in explosives, but then later commits suicide, saying that the group's current way of life is 'no way to live'. Peter Straub at the University of South Florida on February 15, 2007 Peter Francis Straub, born March 2, 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a writer of fiction and poetry, best known as a prolific horror author. ... Nickname: Coordinates: , Country United States State Florida County Broward Established 27 March 1911 Government  - Type Commission-Manager  - Mayor Jim Naugle Area  - City  36. ...

Literary significance & criticism

The book generally received good reviews from critics. Publishers Weekly described it as "a glib, technophobic but compelling look at the end of civilization" and full of "jaunty and witty" sociological observations ^[1]. Stephen King scholar Bev Vincent said "It's a dark, gritty, pessimistic novel in many ways and stands in stark contrast to the fundamental optimism of The Stand". ^[2] Publishers Weekly is a weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. ... Bev Vincent is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker nominated, authorized companion to Stephen Kings Dark Tower series, and has been writing News From the Dead Zone for Cemetery Dance magazine since March 2001. ...

The book reached number one on The New York Times bestseller list, and the motion picture rights have been sold. The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ...

Allusions/References

Similar plot devices in other Fiction

• In the September 30, 1994 episode of the TV series The X-Files titled "Blood" (episode 2x03) a small town in Pennsylvania sees a spree of random killings as people go into fear-driven berserk rages after receiving hypnotic messages urging them to kill via LCD read-outs of various electronic devices such as scanners, elevators, ATMs, cell-phones, clocks etc. and television screens. An illegal pesticide used on the area is also involved in triggering the fear response. The 1996 X-Files novel Fear adapted the episode as a novelization for young readers.
• The 2002 British horror movie 28 Days Later features a very similar plot: The outbreak of "the rage virus" causes the majority of the populace (in this case of the British Isles) to turn into homicidal blood-crazed maniacs and go on a killing spree, while motley groups of uninfected survivors try to reach the supposedly safe sanctuary of the city of Manchester. By and by, the infected are dying of starvation. This movie in turn has similarities with King's work The Stand, when at the start of the movie one of the protagonists wakes up from a coma in a hospital in London only to find he's alone in a deserted city.
• The television show Threshold featured an extaterrestrial audio signal that transformed the DNA of humans that were exposed into an alien DNA, making them violent and relentlessly self-replicating and -defensive, and with hive mind-like properties.
• As in many of King's works, the book features both telepathy and telekinesis as particularly crucial plot devices amongst the characters, as the phoners have these abilities when gathered together in large groups. Both subjects are also focal points of King's other works The Stand, Carrie, Firestarter, The Tommyknockers, and Dreamcatcher.

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Other References

• The book makes reference to "the panic rat", which is a motif in King's work to showcase fear as an imaginary creature feeding away at the thoughts of the lead character. Clayton experiences this continually throughout the book in fear of his son's fate. This is previously mentioned in Gerald's Game, in which lead female character Jessie Burlingame experiences the panic bug as she's handcuffed to a bed.
• The enigmatic reference "Dodge had a good time, too", made by a traveler when "Lawrence Welk and his champagne music makers" can be heard playing Baby Elephant Waltz, is a reference to Dodge Division of the Chrysler Corporation. It was The Lawrence Welk Show's in-studio sponsor early on, and was later replaced by Geritol.
• The concept of an auditory signal that can destroy a person's brain is very similar to the concepts put forth in Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson. King also references Stephenson in the book, when the character of Jordan calls him "a god".
• The Raggedy Man is the name of a poem by the American poet James Whitcomb Riley.^[3]
• The book is co-dedicated to film director George A. Romero and sci-fi/horror writer Richard Matheson. Romero has worked with King on numerous occasions, including Creepshow and the feature film version of The Dark Half, and is most famous for his "Living Dead" horror movies, which feature swarms of zombies overwhelming human civilization; Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead are both directly mentioned in Cell -- although the effects of The Pulse more closely resemble the effects of the bioweapon in Romero's 1973 film The Crazies, in that phoners are not dead and that they indiscriminately attack each other and normals, unlike Romero's ghouls who exclusively attack the living. In much the same vein as Cell, Matheson's novel I Am Legend depicts a lone "normal" waging a grim post-apocalyptic battle against an army of hideously-altered former humans.
• In the story, King makes a reference to Juniper Hill (a mental hospital), which he has used in other stories as well, such as IT.
• Clay's son goes to a middle school in Chamberlain, Maine. This is the town where Carrie took place.
• In Carrie a prediction is made that Chamberlain would grow dead. But here we see Chamberlain is still alive.

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Outside References

• The character of Charles Ardai was named after the entrepreneur who published King's novel The Colorado Kid.

Charles Ardai (born 1969) is an entrepreneur, writer, and editor. ... The Colorado Kid is a mystery novel written by Stephen King for the Hard Case Crime imprint, published in 2005. ...

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

On March 8, 2006, Ain't It Cool News announced that Dimension Films have bought the film rights to the book and will produce a film directed by Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) for a 2008 release. is the 67th day of the year (68th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Screenshot of Aint It Cool News. ... Dimension Films is a motion picture unit currently a part of The Weinstein Company. ... Eli Raphael Roth (born April 18, 1972) is an American film director, producer and writer. ... This article or section contains a plot summary that is overly long or excessively detailed. ... Cabin Fever (2003) is American horror film about a group of college graduates who rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus. ...

Says Roth about his approach to the film:

I fucking LOVE that book. Such a smart take on the zombie movie. I am so psyched to do it. I think you can really do almost a cross between the Dawn of the Dead remake with a 'Roland Emmerich' approach (for lack of a better reference) where you show it happening all over the world. When the pulse hits, I wanna see it hit EVERYWHERE. In restaurants, in movie theaters, at sports events, all the places that people drive you crazy when they're talking on their cell phones. I see total armageddon. People going crazy killing each other - everyone at once - all over the world. Cars smashing into each other, people getting stabbed, throats getting ripped out. The one thing I always wanted to see in zombie movies is the actual moment the plague hits, and not just in one spot, but everywhere. You usually get flashes of it happening around the world on news broadcasts, but you never actually get to experience it happening everywhere. Then as the phone crazies start to change and mutate, the story gets pared down to a story about human survival in the post-apocalyptic world ruled by phone crazies. I'm so excited, I wish the script was ready right now so I could start production. But it'll get written (or at least a draft will) while I'm doing Hostel 2, and then I can go right into it. It should feel like an ultra-violent event movie.^[4] Dawn of the Dead is a 2004 horror film remake of George A. Romeros 1978 film of the same name. ... Hostel 2 is the upcoming thriller sequel to Eli Roths 2006 film Hostel. ...

According to IMDB, the film will be released in 2009.^[5] // LR: Limited release in select cities WR: Wide-release to theaters IMAX: Release to IMAX theaters Beverly Hills Cop IV The Hobbit Interstellar Magneto (film) Smooth Criminal : The Michael Jackson Story Temeraire Tales from Earthsea - December 18 LR - Buena Vista Distribution - Goro Miyazaki (director) The Lost Tomb: A Neopets Adventure...

On June 15, 2007, Eli Roth posted in his MySpace blog that he will not be directing Cell "anytime soon", as he plans to spend the rest of this year writing other projects. is the 166th day of the year (167th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

References

Bev Vincent is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker nominated, authorized companion to Stephen Kings Dark Tower series, and has been writing News From the Dead Zone for Cemetery Dance magazine since March 2001. ...

External links

• Cell at the Internet Movie Database
• Literary review at Reader Meet Author