Castle Rock American drama plot analysis

"Castle Rock" is written by Stephen King himself. This drama is equivalent to a hodgepodge of Stephen King's novels. It is set in Castle Rock, Maine, a fictional place in his novels, and combines several novels and Short stories are presented in one setting, with multiple works connected into a complete story.

In 1991, an 11-year-old boy named Henry Deaver was lost in the cold winter. Nearly half of the people in Maine sent out to search for him, but the search for 11 days still found nothing. Encountering extremely cold weather at this time, the police issued an order to cancel the rescue operation, but the police chief did not give up and continued the search against the order, and finally found Henry. ?

The outdoor weather was over minus 40 degrees Celsius. It is reasonable to say that a person could freeze to death within an hour. However, Henry was unscathed when he was found, but he had no memory of what happened. ?

The time came in 2018. An old man who was about to retire had received a six-digit compensation and pension before retirement, but he committed suicide mysteriously. Judging from the process of his suicide, he behaved very calmly and calmly. He tied one end of a rope to a tree, put the other end around his neck, and drove into the lake. ?

This man is the warden of the famous Shawshank Prison, the prison in the movie "The Shawshank Redemption". If you have watched the movie, you should know that Shawshank Prison is an extremely corrupt place. The warden in the movie also died of suicide due to fear of crime. This terrible setting is still used in the play. In the past few decades, the warden has not One is innocent, and both died mysteriously during their term of office. ?

Shawshank Prison is overcrowded. In order to make money for the prison, the newly appointed warden plans to put the abandoned F area back into use. When the warden sent people to clean it, they discovered an astonishing secret. A young man Imprisoned by the previous warden, he could not speak. The official did not have any identity information about him, and his fingerprints could not be found in the system. The new warden planned to hide this secret for the sake of the reputation of the prison. ?

After repeated questioning by the prison guards, the young man finally said a name: "Henry Matthew Deaver!" An older prison guard said with certainty that this young man could not be Henry Dee. Henry, the black boy who mysteriously disappeared in 1991, was very famous in Maine. Henry's adoptive father died trying to find him. Henry refused to say anything after he came back. He could not bear the public opinion and left his hometown early. When he grew up, he became a A lawyer who defends death row inmates. ?

The prison guard who discovered the unknown man felt sympathy for the man, so he secretly called Henry Deaver, hoping that he would come back to confirm the situation. ?

Henry returned to his hometown and found that his mother, who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, was living a very poor life. The home care provider he hired who was supposed to take care of her had left long ago, but he didn't know about it. When he came to Shawshank Prison to meet with the warden, the warden did not want Henry to get involved in the matter and hid the true situation. Henry had to start the investigation from the death of the previous warden.

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At the end, the unknown man recalled the words taught to him by the former warden: "Henry Matthew Deaver!"