Phase Two: Cell (Part 6)

"The boy turned toward the sound of the shout, startled. His mouth hung open in a vacant gawp. There

was nothing in his eyes but vague alarm. He looked as if he was thinking about running, but before he

could even begin to put his legs in gear, Clay had swept him up and was covering his grimy, unresponsive

face and slack mouth with kisses.

"Johnny," Clay said. "Johnny, I came for you. I did. I came for you. I came for you."

And at some point—perhaps only because the man holding him had begun to swing him around in a

circle—the child put his hands around Clay's neck and hung on. He said something, as well. Clay refused

to believe it was empty vocalization, as meaningless as wind blowing across the mouth of an empty popbottle.

It was a

word. It might have been tieey, as if the boy was trying to say tired.

Or it might have been

Clay chose to hang on to that. To believe the pallid, dirty, malnourished child clinging to his neck had

called him Daddy."



    Continuing on with the "reboot" theory, this quote seems to suggest that The human reboot function truly exists. Think about it. If our minds were to get wiped, we wouldn't just say "screw the whole" thing and starve ourselves. We'd find ways to improve our scenario.

    In this section, Clayton just found his son. However, he's been exposed to the Pulse, the brainwiping mechanism. I'm recieving a few mixed signals though. The book suggests that Johnny is relearning everything by the way he tries to pronounce "Daddy." It seems that Johnny is relearning human speech patterns.

    However, it seems that Johnny still knows who his father is. Is this just one of Stephen King's plot points? Or is this a statement about human instinct concerning survival with parental guidance?

    I personally believe that it may have been a small plot oversight or a little hastily though out.

Final Thoughts:

    Cell by Stephen King is sorta of the wall insane. There's long periods of waiting around and small sections of zombie killing (only about 2 of them).

    It's actually kinda boring, and I'd have rather read the same thing cut back by 200 pages.Dieey, which was the way he had, as a sixteen-month-old, first named his father.