Blog Post #5: Classics

          When I think of something as a classic, I think of it as something that will be remembered positively by many people, and even though their views of said subject change over time, it is still a universal favourite.

          The book that I am reading, called The Stand, is a genuine classic. Not only was it a bestselling book, 3 part movie was made based on it. It incorporates the journey to the special world as a disease begins to wipe out humanity. When only a few people who had been born with immunity are left in the world, they are divided into two camps, one lead by mother Abigail, who speaks to the survivors in their dreams and leads them too her house in Colorado. The others are lead by the devil’s personification: flag. This man represents the evil that we have in our world today, as he is always trying to restore a “pecking order” much like the one we have today. All in all, Stephen King was able to create a story that spoke to people. It showed how, under extreme circumstances (though they really needn’t be) we can come together as a race and dispel the evil that grips the world already. It’s an idea that everyone holds close, that one day, they will be able to be accepted as their selves,  and not as someone that they made up to “fit in” and for this reason, The Stand is a classic. It pertains to ideas that are held as the highest possible standard of human existence, and this view has never changes, though it may be distorted, the image can always be made clear.