Four Past Midnight (1-246)

Summary:

From a flight from Los Angeles  to Boston, ten passengers find out that they are the only ones left in the plane. As they awaken they find that no one else is on the plane and the only people that are were sleeping. They had gone through a time warp that was located in the Mojave Desert where an aurora borealis was occurring. The time warp took them into the past. The ten remaining passengers, Brian Engle, a pilot, Dinah Bellman, a blind girl, Don Gaffney, an engineer, Laurel Stevenson, a teacher, Nick Hopewell, a man from England that works as an assassin, Rudy Warwick, a businessman, Alber Kaussner, a violinist, Bethany Simms, a girl that does drugs, Bob Jenkins, a mystery author, and lastly, Craig Toomy an investor that is basically crazy. Since no one is flying the plane, captain Engle decides to land the plain in Bangor, Maine. When they arrive they see no one, everything is quiet, except for the sounds of static. Craig believes this sound is the sound of the Langoliers  and goes crazy and stabs Dinah, thinking she is the one who is in charge of them. He runs off hoping that the Langoliers won't get him. They start up the plane to go back to Los Angeles hoping that the time warp would still be open so they could go back to their time. The static sound gets louder and the Langoliers are a mile away. As captain Engle starts to take off they see Craig getting eaten by the Langoliers, and everything underneath them turns black. Everything underneath them ceased to exist, including Craig. As they slowly arrive to their destination they realize they need to be sleeping in order to still be alive once they enter the time warp. Nick decides to give up his life by taking charge of the plane for the rest of the people to go through alive. When the surviving passengers awaken they land in Los Angeles, at last they are back into their own time.  

Quote: 

"The place where life is freshly minted every second of every day; the cradle of creation and the wellspring of time." (King 232)

Reaction:

This was my favorite quote because it described the whole story of The Langoliers. I like how it describes that time is where life is "freshly minted". It shows how life is made every second and the past is either forgotten of or not remembered. Time is created all the time. This quote basically illustrates the main point of the story, that  life is made in every second. This is also a personification because life cannot be freshly minted, but it can be made. Overall, I think this quote fit the whole story perfectly and commented on the theme of this story.