“Jud Crandall: Neighbor, Mentor, Father”
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published 11/10/2007
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Summary
With experience comes knowledge. Sometimes, the experience might not make sense, and it helps to have a guiding hand. No, this is not the introduction to Chicken Soup for the Soul, but more like an intro for Chicken Soup for the Soulless. The spiritual world is difficult for the hardened realist to understand, there are many questions but few answers. In particular horror stories, there is a character that helps as a “Dark-Forces Mentor”, someone to explain and inform characters about the mysterious, sometimes evil, ways of spirituality. In Pet Sematary by Stephen King, the character Jud Crandall fulfills this role by teaching his neighbor, Louis Creed, about the power of the Micmac burial ground. However, this is just one aspect of Jud, as mentoring is just one aspect of being a father. He represents a father figure for Louis Creed, a man who grew up without a father. Jud is a source of information, he is wise beyond his years, and can explain things that Louis cannot possibly fathom. Although Jud knows and understands the dark ways of spirituality, he is a good man, whose character is more concerned with helping Louis than acting as an agent of the dark forces.
Table of Contents
- With experience comes knowledge. Sometimes, the experience might not make sense, and it helps to have a guiding hand.
- In a novel, the first line is crucial to the rest of the book.
- Jud believes that it is fine to bring an animal back to life.
- Power is intoxicating. Jud is confessing he had to bring Louis to the burial ground
- The resurrected dead come back changed. It's like a mild-retardation.
- To loose a child is devastating. Despite all of Jud's fatherly-like benevolence and advice, how could Louis follow his neighbor's words' Jud had not lost a child. d
- As a father-figure would, Jud teaches Louis about life and the supernatural aspects of it.
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