In many ways, it relies on the idea that children can be connected to a powerful force that brings sinister scenes that follow a certain regime. The Institute isn’t an overly violent book, as King sometimes tends to be. Here, he finds several other children like him in the same predicament who are told that they are heroes helping to save the world but they are tortured until they are empty vessels. Soon he is snatched by the Institute and we delve into the deep fears of the Institute: waking up in a place exactly like his home for it to be somewhere otherworldly and rendered. Luke is on his way to attending two universities at once and learns that in order to keep from the terrifying abyss inside of him he hungers to learn more. Our story takes place largely in the Institute itself and from the perspective of 12yo child prodigy, Luke Ellis. This turns out to be a major theme of the story: events of pure chance (or is it destiny). We start our story with Tim, an ex-cop, who has quick intelligence and thoughtfulness but has lost his job to a freak occurrence and ends up in the small town of DuPray as a night knocker. There’s even a dig at the Trump administration which seems fitting today, of all days. King has always been supreme at crafting a story from the ground up and bringing them together in a soft and simple way however he also brings in a load of political references.
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