1922

Fernando Sanchez

Book: “1922, by Stephen King”

 Suspense with 131 page count

                     1992 is a suspenseful story that starts off with a fathers confession. The Father was confessing to the crime of murdering his wife with the help of their son. He starts from the beginning of how happy their lives were on their own farm living the country life. The son was homeschooled and the mother and father worked on the farm. The land belonged to the mother and was passed down to her from her father. The mother and father soon fell into an argument about selling the farm and moving to the city. The Father fought against this and tried to explain to his wife that it would not be a good idea and that they are fine where they are. On the other hand the mother thought otherwise, she wanted to move to the city because they could no longer take care of the farm. The father told the son what was going on and the son did not want to leave either. He had so many friends there and did not want to move to a big city where he would have to start all over. The father tried and tried to convince her to not move but she didn’t want to listen. The father couldn’t do anything with the land because it did not belong to him. He then thought that the law says if owner of the land shall die it shall go to his/her partner or next of kin. In that case it would go to him. That’s when he got the idea to kill his wife. He talked to his son about this and the son took some convincing but later agreed. Later that night the dad comes into the room and cuts the moms throat and tries to suffocate her with a pillow but she is still struggling because the dad didn’t cut deep enough. The son walks in crying, grabs the knife and stabs his mom in the heart. She then dies with tears coming down her face. The boy later develops PTSD and the dad gets rid of the body. He first throws her body into a well and has his son help him. Which ends up affecting the son even more in the head. The dad is later caught by the police and is thrown in prison. The son later kills himself because he can no longer take seeing his moms dead face in his dreams anymore. This leads to the father finally confessing and writing his confession letter. This book is very very intense but it did grab my attention and I ended up liking it. I would recommend this book but for an older audience who likes this type of suspense.