Salem's Lot (Stephen king)
People live in a world full of reality and evil, and everyone has freedom to make deliberate choices to confront the evil and inner weaknesses. People in Salem’s Lot city have choices between evil and good but only few resists the evil. For example, the protagonist (Mark Petrie) and a group of vampire hunters decide to take action (King, 93).These people have the moral courage to resist the evil and stand firm to their moral conscience while ignoring the Barlow’s actions. In the novel, the strength of the thesis is reinforced by the characters who act in a supernatural situation that forces them to make choices between good and evil. The author is able to test the characters and understand the human condition by employing the vampiric threat. In order to see how the characters set the plot, it is important to note that Salem’s Lot is an isolated city and a breeding-ground for evil (King, 4).The characters play an important role in developing the popular themes in modern societies. The Salem’s lot town is destroyed by a vampire who transforms all people in the town until they becomes undead. Even at the point of killing the head vampire, the town is still controlled by the vampires left behind. Community members go missing without any physical prove and this makes the town’s people to become flustered. The novel depicts the Salem’s lot as a town full of darkness and how characters perform dark secrets such as child abuse, murder, and adultery among many. Note that the characters in the novel allow the reader see the setting and how vampire emerges in the town. In the community, the main vampire (Barlow) brings evil to the town though there were comfy horrors in the Salem’s lot (King, 25).
In the novel, the reader is introduced to a horror genre and how characters or human beings are able to achieve self-actualization by making personal decisions in dealing with the horror. From the theme, the reality from the novel is that human being can face oppression in a subjugated culture and courage and inner strength to overcome the unconquerable vampire. Note that characters such as Ben Mears and Father Callahan are interested in building a liberated future by fighting with the systematic injustice in the town (King, 59). The novel tends to show that the characters aim to create a community of solidarity and eliminate the dark oppression. In other words, they stand firm with their decision between good and evil, and they employ cohesive strategies to ensure that community members live in a community of faith. The town is full of darkness as it “… care’s for devil’s work … It knew darkness. And darkness was enough” (King, 176). For this reason, they foresee a transformative future characterize by liberation from vampiric oppression. In addition, the novel has revealed that human beings as well as societies have a role in choosing between the evil and the good. Note that in modern America culture, vampires have been transformed to address culture things which relate with gender and sexuality, spirituality and more. Generally, horror in the community allows individuals to examine the deepest intuitive in choosing between right and wrong. For example, Mark’s parents are morally instructive and urge Mark to explore the world and the existence of evil and this makes him identify between the rights and wrong (King, 69).
Work cited
King Stephen. Salem’s Lot. 1975
