the running man!!!?

Question

has anyone read the running man from stephen king?i read it and i couldn't understand that was Garraty dead or alive in the second story.please,tell what do you think about the final.you think,he was alive or not?

thanks!!

Answer 1

HE WON!!! HOORAY - but ya it was a great story.

Answer 2

In the original 'The Running Man' (not the too-poor-for-words Arnie version), written by Stephen King under the psuedonym Richard Bachman, the protagonist Ben Richards was not a framed cop but a prole whocouldn't afford the medical bills when his wife (or child, can't remember) gets sick, and signs up for the TV show in a desperate attempt to win the money he needs.

During the course of th game, he finds out that the TV company have rigged it completely, offering bounty money to any member of the public who can give information leading to the capture (and hence televised death) of the participant.

Nonetheless he survives for the prescribed period, and at the end is invited to join the team of Hunters (indeed, that's how all the Hunters got their jobs). However, when he discovers that his family was murdered by a lynch mob (stirred up by the TV company's propaganda) shortly after the game began, he kills the remainder of the Hunter team, and (himself mortally wounded) flies an aeroplane into the TV company's skyscraper (How's that for life imitating art...?).

The last line of the book has the TV executive, who set Richards (and his family) up to die, watching the plane approaching, and seeing Richards giving him the finger just before impact.

I think we can assume that Richards doesn't survive.

Answer 3

If you mean "The Long Walk" about the boys, he was not shot, as he was the winner. He did go insane, unable to comprehend that the Walk was over. In all likelihood he recovered somewhat, but the point of the story is the irony that he won but couldn't realize it. Btw, the name of the book is the Bachman Books, as King wrote them under a pseudonym, not the Running Man, which was simply one of the stories.