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     King, Stephen. The Stand. New York New York, 1978     tephen Edwin King was born on folk 21, 1947 in Portland, principal(prenominal)e He was a surprise to the family because his mother was told that she would never consent children. His p atomic number 18nts, Donald and Nellie King, were having trouble in their marriage, and when Stephen King was only 2, his father, a access to door salesman for a company, left the house to buy a pack of cig arttes, but never returned. Stephen King hasnt seen his father since.     Stephen and his adopted older brother, David King, lived with their mother back end and forth between Massachusetts and Maine. And his passion for writing came about in 1959 when he wrote articles in his brothers local newspaper titled Daves Rag. Copied on a mimeograph machine, and with a circulation of only 20 or so Stephen wrote articles. animate by the relative success, Stephen copied some of his sh ort stories and sold them to local batch for a whole thirty cents. Stephen actually sold some of his crop at school until teachers stopped it. And thats how he started his carrier in writing.     The setting of the story takes place in 1991 in America. A hassle struck the U.S. only leaving a fewer thousand survivors.      In the year 1991, a plague strikes America, leaving only a few thousand people alive who are immune to the epidemic. Of the survivors, those who serve G-d instinctively join in Boulder, Colorado, while those who worship the Dark Man are drawn to Las Vegas, Nevada. The two groups separately rebuild society, until one must extirpate the other. Franni Goldsmith comes very close to killing herself. She thinks she can not fate with her parents deaths, being unwed and pregnant, and having the only other survivor in her hometown of Ogunquit, Main be her recently deceased best friends weird brother Harold Lauder. On their way, they meet up with six people from various states in the join States who joined them on their journey. Fran is disturbed by her dreams, as all of them are by their own. She dreams of an old lady named Abigail, in Colorado. This lady is kind and pleasant and promises to protect them from the evil. In the dreams there is also a Dark Man. He is always there lurking, waiting to attack. Harold admits to himself that he is in love with Fran and goes pale when he realizes how serious Fran has become with Stuart Redman, one of the newcomers to their traveling group.