Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast, one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.

Once I reviewed each of his works in the chronological order of publication, but Ka is a wheel,

it all goes round again, and here I am once more on a new phase of the journey to examine

each of the endings of the works of Stephen King, to determine whether or not he deserves his

reputation for having an inability to successfully land his endings.

The focus of the podcast will be to examine the climax, the falling action, and the resolution of the endings to each of his novels and break it down by character themes, conflicts, and plot, to determine whether or not it meets the criteria of being an objectively good ending.

I will also weigh in on whether or not I happen to personally like the ending.

Today I'm here to discuss the ending of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

Okay, Wikipedia.

I'm going to talk about the Wikipedia summary so that I have a basis upon which I can build

the analysis for the conclusion of

this novel. The story is set in motion by a family hiking trip during which Trish's brother

Pete and mother constantly squabble about the mother's divorce divorce.

Divert. Okay. I can say this word. About the mother's divorce from their father as well as other topics.

Trisha falls back to avoid listening and is therefore unable to find her family again

after she wanders off the trail to take a bathroom break.

Trying to catch up by attempting a shortcut, she slips and falls down a steep embankment

and ends up hopelessly lost, heading deeper into the heart of the forest.

She is left with a bottle of water, two twinkies, a boiled eggs, celery sticks, a tuna sandwich,

a bottle of surge, a poncho, a game boy and a walkman. She listens to her walkman to keep her mood

up, either to learn of news of the search for her or to listen to the baseball game

featuring her favorite player and heartthrob Tom Gordon.

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