The Problem: So much of this book is an engrossing look at a post-9/11 world, but to just end things with teenage aliens removing the dome is such an eye-rolling ending that it undoes all of the nuance that comes before.īut Maybe: Under the Dome is King's most political work.
When multiple people from Chester's Mill touch a strange object left in the town, they're inundated with visions of alien creatures that they refer to as "leatherheads." As toxic fumes fill the dome, asphyxiating the people inside, the cynical editor of the local newspaper reaches out to the aliens and asks them to remove the dome. People are disemboweled, they're gassed and tortured, and all of that happens against the backdrop of one looming question: Who did this? People turn against one another and their worst traits come out in the name of conspiratorial thought. What Happens: When the small Maine town of Chester's Mill is covered with an invisible semi-permeable dome, the townspeople understandably grow agitated and afraid.
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