Car accident, choking to death on a Triscuit before Christmas (Beetlejuice reference), getting murdered. Or because of some other thing that kills us on the outside. We are born to live, we live for a small amount of a given time, then we die because we lived. I'm not done with the book, but I did see as someone above in this thread had said, that the book is going to have an anticlimactic ending, which just sort of proves the point King is making and the one that I'm bringing out.
However the shots are what most people call prescription drugs and they help, but in reality, just kill the brain (given why no one can think hard anymore), leaving an empty husk to become a part of the drone (society). I have seen it, heard it, went through it. I'm 20 and I know what depression can do. A lot of what Luke had to go through I resonate with. I believe that Stephen has seen this and knows it, but none of us really have any way of finding that out until he gives his own word on The Institute. This book was written, specifically to get under the skin of the people, because we as people are scary. He was honest to God, just too depressed to go after any of them. He noticed the camera's that didn't work he noticed the paint chipping and all the other blatant obvious issues with the Institute. He actually already did, but considering he just found out about his parents being dead (and this is too true for the teenagers going into young adulthood today) he was too depressed to actually figure his own way out.
Luke could have come up with the escape plan on his own. Among the youngsters in the Institute are a pair of girl twins, which are reminiscent of the characters of “some old horror movie”.The whole reason for this book was not to have a good kick or a quick second thought. There’s even a sense here that he’s having fun.
If you are now thinking of the recent Netflix show Stranger Things, don’t forget that King got there first: he’s been writing about psychic children and conspiracies since the Sixties. Hidden in the depths of the American forest, the organisation known as “the Institute” sends out special forces to kidnap children (having first dispatched their families), and subjects them to all kinds of horrific tests in order to bring out their developing psychic powers. His new book, The Institute, concerns a sinister government facility, operational since the Second World War. There’s no question about it: Stephen King is a past master at casting an eerie shade on familiar fictional materials.
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