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Clayton Riddell. Clay is the main character of the book, although Tom, Alice and Jordan also play significant roles.
October 1st. If you live in America then the TRULY frightening day is April 15th- Income Tax Day!
Pixie Light. Pixie Light and Pixie Dark (Clay's names for them)were the girls in line with Clay when the Pulse hit. Myron Floren was best known as the accordionist on ‘The Lawrence Welk Show’ between 1950 and 1982. When Clay and company were walking along route 102 they heard Floren's version of‘The Beer Barrel Polka’. The Head is Charles Ardai, Headmaster of the Academy.
Boston. While many of these cities will be familiar to King fans, this tale begins in Boston.
His wife and son were there. Even though he and his ex-wife had been having problems he was desperate to find her and his son. He was especially burdened because he had insisted that his son have a cell phone.
People affected by the Pulse. They were known by other names as well such as 'Phone-crazies.'
Standing in line to buy an ice cream cone. The Pixies didn't end up so well. In fact, King would say that they were about as far from 'well' as you can get.
Johnny and Sharon. Rafe, short for Rafael, was the name of Tom’s cat. Tom felt he owed his life to him because before the Pulse hit Rafe had knocked Tom’s cell phone down and broke it. Tom agonized over leaving Rafe but decided the cat would do better on its own. After Tom said a tearful goodbye, Rafe jumped down and according to the author, “…walked out of the room toward the kitchen with its tail up. And, true to its kind it never looked back.” Gotta love cats, such survivors.
Pink and purple. She wore it tied arond her wrist for awhile. Clay thought it was creepy. I think 'creepy' about covers it.
At the Atlantic Avenue Inn. Mr. Ricardi wouldn’t leave the Inn. He committed suicide by hanging himself in his office.
Maxwell. McCourt was Tom's last name. The other two were not in the book.
Charles Ardai. Arnie Nickerson was Tom’s neighbor and quite a gun collector. Daniel Hartwick and Roscoe Handt were people that Clay met along the journey. The Head was the Chairman of the Gaiten Academy English Department, and was acting Headmaster when the Pulse occured. He was forced by the Raggedy Man to write ‘Insane’ in fourteen languages before committing suicide.
The only student left in the Gaiten Academy. Jordan was an endearing computer nerd and was attending Gaiten Academy on scholarship. He had an idea that the Pulse had wiped out all higher reasoning from the brain (our super-computers) and reverted the Phone-crazies to their basic, somoewhat primitive mind-programming.
‘Baby Elephant Walk’. Specifically the Lawrence Welk version of ‘Baby Elephant Walk’. ‘The Devil’ is by an incredible band named 'Eleven54'. ‘My Favorite Things’ is from ‘The Sound of Music’, and ‘Ina Gadda da Vita’ is a classic by Iron Butterfly.
October 1st. "The event that came to be known as The Pulse began at 3:03pm, eastern standard time, on the afternoon of October 1."
Artist. Clay had just sold his first comic to a publisher hours before "the pulse" for big money after years of struggleing to make ends meet. Then the world as he knew it ended. Talk about bad luck.
| After taking refuge in the Atlantic Avenue Inn Clay and Tom met a girl who would join them in their travels. What was her name? | Stephen King's "Cell"
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Alice Maxwell. When they first saw her she was being chased by a phone crazy outside of the Inn. The Inn clerk, Mr. Ricardi, would not let her in at first but Clay and Tom convinced him.
| When the group left the Altantic Avenue Inn whose house did they decide to walk to in nearby Malden? | Stephen King's "Cell"
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Tom. Tom lived closer than Clay and Alice, and Mr. Ricardi refused to leave with them. He hung himself in the inn office shortly after they left him.
An old lady with a bible. The old lady was harassing Alice and ranting about the end of the world.
| The morning after the pulse the group woke up in Tom's house and discovered a phone crazy sitting in his garden. What was the phone crazy eating? | Stephen King's "Cell"
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A pumpkin. He had cracked a pumpkin in half on the corner of a wheelbarrow and was eating it. Clay, Tom and Alice were suprised to see a phone crazy use a tool to open the pumpkin and then refrain from attacking the woman that joined him in the garden.
Gunner. Harold is the name of the passenger in the truck. It was Gunner who sped past them and crashed into an abandoned vehicle shortly after. Unfortunately he survived.
| Following graffiti left on roads and walls the group traveled north. Where were they heading? | Stephen King's "Cell"
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Kashwak. They were headed to Kashwak because it was a "no-fo" area. There were supposidly no cell phone towers there so the normies figured it would be a safe place to go.
A cell phone hooked up to a bomb. Ray rigged up two cell phones and a bunch of TNT in the back of a bus to make a huge bomb with a remote timer. Jordan drove the bus into the middle of the flock and Clay called the number detonating the TNT. The explosion also blew the door off the barn they were locked up in. Kinda like a bonus.
| Prior to the arrival of 'The Pulse', Clay was a comic book artist. What was the name of his comic book, ironically accepted by a publisher, on October 1st? | Cell
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The Dark Wanderer. During the first few minutes of 'The Pulse', Clay's publishing folder (which was given to him by his wife) is stabbed through by a phone-crazy. It really doesn't matter anyway, the employees of the publishing company are probably crazy or dead. Clay is able to survive the initial blast and the events that follow with the help of a man he meets on the street, Tom McCourt.
| Outside which Boston location did Clay and Tom first find Alice? | Cell
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Atlantic Avenue Inn. After the chaos begins, Tom and Clay decide to hide away in a safe place, so they go back to Clay's hotel. Here, they bunker down for a bit in the lobby (as the other floors aren't safe) by turning off the elevator and blocking the doors with a couple of tall chairs. Before they enter, Clay notices a girl in a dress in shock and walking up the street. She runs away when Clay tries to help her, but she later returns and hides with them in the hotel. Her name is Alice, and her mother was transformed by The Pulse while they were in a taxi cab.
| What is the name of Tom's cat? | Cell
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Rafe . After deciding that it is safe to leave the hotel, the trio heads to Tom's house in Malden, where they can spend the night. Here, Tom's cat, Rafe, welcomes them. Along the way to the house, they meet up with a large group of people evacuating Boston including a religious fanatic who attacks Alice. Oddly, no one runs into a phone-crazy at this time, as they have all simply disappeared.
| What colour is Johnny-Gee's cell phone? | Cell
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Red. Throughout the novel, Clay has trouble coping with the fact that his ex-wife and his son are back at home in Maine and that he is so far away. He constantly remembers that his son has a cell phone and that there's the possibility that he could have used it and become a phone-crazy. Clay forces himself onward and lets nothing stop him from getting to Maine. The other two, Tom and Alice, tag along.
| What is the name of the mechanic who Tom, Alice, and Clay find in Tom's backyard? | Cell
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George. When the three survivors wake up the next morning, they discover that there were phone-crazies walking all around them and they never noticed (in fact, Clay was sleeping out on the front porch!). Some of the phone-crazies come through the gate and into Tom's backyard to eat the vegetables that he's growing. After a quick argument between the 'zombies', George ends up breaking the neck of another phone-crazy over a piece of pumpkin.
| According to the signs featured along the group's route, what does Kashwak equal? | Cell
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Nofo . As the trio continues, they meet two people outside the Gaiten Academy in New Hampshire. One of these is the former headmaster, Charles Ardai, and the other is a young student named Jordan. These two introduce the main characters to a field full of phone-crazies on the schoolgrounds in Tonney Park. They also make note of the fact that the phone-crazies sleep there at night while listening to loud boomboxes (usually playing easy-listening tracks). They all decide to destroy the field to kill the phone-crazies, and to do this, they shoot two propane tankers that they place in the center of the field. The phone-crazies later get their revenge.
Kashwak=No Fo makes note of the fact that Kashwak is an area where there are no cell phone signals.
| What item does Alice carry around with her throughout the journey? | Cell
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A sneaker. Back in Malden, Alice picked up a tiny, child's sneaker off the ground. She later loops this around her wrist and holds onto it throughout the journey. When the group destroys the phoners at Tonney Field, Alice loses her sneaker and breaks down. The next morning, however, it is returned to her when the phone-crazies leave their melted boomboxes on the doorstep of the academy. That night, they find that Headmaster Ardai has killed himself, though it was actually through telepathy generated by the phone-crazies.
| What university name is printed on the front of the Raggedy Man's hoodie? | Cell
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Harvard. The one who projects all of the images to the survivors is an African-American man in a Harvard hoodie who they call the Raggedy Man because of his appearance. After Ardai's death, the group continues onward towards Maine and Alice is killed by two normal people (who are later killed by the phone-crazies via telekinesis, as they have plans for the Tonney Park destroyers). When the remaining three characters arrive in Clay's hometown, they realize that Johnny may still be alive as he escaped the terror and fled to the city hall with the other 'normies'. They later went north as well.
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