The_Girl_Who_Loved_Tom_Gordon

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Have you ever been lost before' Were you scared' Did you feel alone and helpless' Or did you take control of the situation and fight to survive' Stephen King’s The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is a novel that is very realistic and packed with suspense. Its use of characterization, suspense, and detail forces the reader to confront any fears they may have about being lost. While there are a limited number of characters in the story, King presents each very realistically. The main character in the story is Trisha McFarland, a nine year old girl who lives with her mother and brother Pete. Her parents are divorced and her mother and brother are always fighting. She doesn’t like hearing them fight; this is the main reason she ends up lost in the woods. Another main character is a Boston Red Sox baseball player named Tom Gordon. He is Trisha and her dad’s favorite baseball player. She thinks, “...Number 36 is the handsomest man alive, and if he ever touched her hand she’d faint” (11). Tom Gordon becomes a very important character in the story. suspense, very, book, woods, story, reader, lost, baseball, trisha, tom, thing, special, king, gordon, girl, character, novel, nine, main, king’s, just, hum, characterization, about, world, trisha’s, slope, situation, school, scared, player, number, mother, middle, loved