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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
- There are a total of 30 general entries.
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Needful Things
| What was the name of the shop-keeper who ran Needful Things? | Needful Things
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Leland Gaunt. Gaunt turned out to not be a man at all, but a demon. This book emphasized the deceptive nature of demons with Gaunt's hypnotic way of dealing with people and with the fact that the needful things turned out to be just old junk in reality.
Polly. Polly was the first person in Castle Rock to get rid of her needful thing of her own free will.
Cora Rusk. Myra had a picture of Elvis, Myrtle had a doll, and Wilma just had her natural meanness.
Buster. This was a nickname that Danforth picked up when he was younger and couldn't stand to be called as he got older. It was when his wife called him by this name that he snapped and killed her.
Brian Rusk. This was the trick Brian had to play to pay Mr. Gaunt for his Sandy Koufax baseball card.
Sally Ratcliffe. While the other three were murdered, Sally hanged herself.
Yellow. Mr. Gaunt was the only "person" to own this kind of car.
| Who was the one person in Castle Rock that Mr. Gaunt avoided? | Needful Things
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Alan Pangborn. Sherrif Alan Pangborn was the only person in town who made Mr. Gaunt uncomfortable.
Raider. Raider was killed by Hugh Priest at Gaunt's command and Nettie was made to think that Wilma Jerzyck had done it.
| At the end of the book, a narrator told of a new store that was getting ready to open in a town called Junction City. What was the name of this store? | Needful Things
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Answered Prayers. It was implied that Leland Gaunt was the shop-keeper of this new store.
Leland Gaunt . Of course he turned out to be the a devil/demon in disguise.
Chalmers. I liked Polly. At first I thought she was kind of crazy, but then she turned out to be lovable and kind, especially to Alan Pangborn.
arthritis. She suffered chronic arthritis in her hands.
Alan. They fell in love with each other and helped defeat Gaunt.
corkscrew. Nettie thought it was done by Wilma Jerzyck, who hated her and her dog, Raider. However, it was Hugh Priest who did it, so he could his keep his precious foxtail.
Brian Rusk. He bought a 1956 Topps Sandy Koufax card, or so he thought. It was really a moldy, dog-eared Sammy Koberg card.
Wilma. Wilma died in time for Nettie to say "Killed ... my ... doggy ..."
| Brian Rusk is the first person to enter Needful Things and buy something. What does he buy? | Needful Things
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A Sandy Koufax baseball card. Brian Rusk is the first person to be enticed by the ever mysterious Leland Gaunt and he buys a Sandy Koufax card on one condition. We do not find out till later on in the book that the condition was that he splatter Wilma's bedsheets with mud.
| Why does Nettie Cobb run out of Needful Things after just meeting Leland Gaunt? | Needful Things
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She sees Wilma entering the shop. Nettie Cobb has had a long lasting rivalry with local annoyance Wilma Jerzyck. Of course Mr. Gaunt uses this to his advantage and gets Hugh Priest and Brian Rusk to secretly pit the two women together, which eventually ends up in their untimely deaths.
Priest. Father John Brigham is head of the Protestants of Castle Rock and has had a long lasting rivalry with Reverend Rose, who is head of the Catholic church. John Brigham is also married to Sheila Brigham, who works for Alan Pangborn. He ends up making a mutual friendship with Rose at the end of the book.
| Why does Nettie march off to Wilma's house with a knife, wanting to kill her? | Needful Things
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She believes Wilma murdered her dog. Nettie and Wilma's battle and deaths are among the first incidents caused by Leland Gaunt. Mr. Gaunt told Hugh that he could only keep his item if he killed Nettie's dog, which Hugh did so. Nettie believed it was Wilma because Wilma had already threatened to do so, so she went over to her house to kill her. However, Wilma was already on her way over to kill Nettie because Mr. Gaunt had secretly got Brian Rusk to break Wilma's windows. Believing Nettie had vandalised her house Wilma had set off to confront her and the two women killed each other in the street.
Myrtle. Myrtle Keeton is a victim of mild domestic abuse at the hands of her husband. In the end of the book she is murdered by him when he believes she is conspiring with "them" (the government) to incarcerate him.
Henry. Henry Beaufort and Hugh Priest is another rivalry that ends badly, just because Hugh was always kicking the jukebox in Henry's bar. Mr. Gaunt gets Norris Ridgewick and Myra Evans to play pranks on both Henry and Hugh; in the end they both believe the other is guilty and meet in the bar to shoot each other. Henry shoots Hugh dead before he can riddle him with bullets but one of the bullets that Hugh did shoot off came from Mr. Gaunt. The origins of the bullet are not known but some chemical inside it ends up exploding and killing Henry later on.
| Ace Merrill returns to Castle Rock and immediately begins work for Mr. Gaunt. What does Mr. Gaunt ask Ace to pick up for him? | Needful Things
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A car. Ace is forced to travel out into the country to pick up a strange car for Mr. Gaunt, in exchange for drugs and a book telling Ace where his grandfather buried some family treasure. Ace is freaked out by Mr. Gaunt and his somewhat psychic nature but he ends up joining forces with him at the end to blow up Castle Rock.
Lenore Potter. Lenore Potter believed that a woman was trashing her garden so was given a gun by Mr. Gaunt to kill her the next time she tried it. However she accidentally shot Melissa who, ironically, was asked to trash Lenore's garden to frame another woman. Lenore was so distraught that she hung herself. Sheila Brigham did accidentally kill Lester Pratt however, whilst Andy was Melissa's husband.
| Castle Rock is a fictional town in Maine frequantly used by Stephen King. It has been used in other books such as "Cujo" and "The Dead Zone". Which character took over the job of the deceased sheriff, when Cujo killed him? | Needful Things
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Alan Pangborn. Alan Pangborn gives up his badge at the end of "Needful Things" to spend the rest of his life with Polly, whilst Norris and Danforth also work at the Municipal building. Sonny is a mechanic.
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