The car is basically destroyed by the delinquents, but Christine isn’t the only thing destroyed as the trauma of the event causes Arnie to push Leigh away. When Buddy is kicked out of school for pulling a knife on Arnie he vows revenge, and when Arnie is once again denied home driveway privileges, forcing him to keep Christine at the airport’s long term parking area, Buddy finds this the perfect opportunity for revenge. The cloud on the horizon is school bully Buddy Repperton and his gang of toadies, who do their best to make Arnie’s life miserable, and keeping them off his friend’s back seems like a full-time job to Dennis. His acne riddled complexion clears up, he becomes more confident and self-assured, and he surprises everyone by dating Leigh Cabot, the new girl at school who had shot down all previous high school suitors. The car is repaired bit-by-bit, yet in a very haphazard fashion, and more interesting though is the fact that as the car improves so does Arnie. LeBay, foul-mouthed curmudgeon who thinks the worlds is full of “ Shitters” and he soaks Arnie for $250 dollars, despite Dennis’s urgings not to buy this piece of crap.Īrnie’s overbearing mother is furious with the purchase and so Arnie is forced to keep the car at a local a do-it-yourself auto-repair facility run by a nasty piece of work called Will Darnell.

The car in question is Christine and it is owned by Roland D. The book opens with Arnie spotting a beat up 1958 Plymouth Fury and insisting that Dennis back up so he can take a look at it. The story has three protagonists Arnie Cunningham, a hapless loser who was destined to be picked on since birth, Dennis Guilder his best friend and high school jock, and Leigh Cabot, the beautiful transfer student who finds herself in a love triangle with a car. In this horror story we are treated to the wonderful horror trope of inanimate objects acting and movie around on their own in the case of Christine it’s an automobile coming to life, something we’ve seen before in episodes of The Twilight Zone and most famously the 1977 film The Carwith James Brolin, but Stephen King brings a new level of horror with his offering. That is the key theme that runs through Stephen King’s 1983 novel Christine and because it’s a Stephen King story there may be something going on beyond simple obsession. Man’s love aff air with the automobile has been well documented, George Lucas’ American Graffiti is practically a love letter to the American automobile, but there is also the dark side, the obsession that can push one over the brink and into madness.

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