Misery Stephen King

Stephen King
Misery

Chapter 1: Paul Sheldon wakes up in pain. In a state of semi-consciousness, he hears a woman’s voice urging him to breathe, and realises she is giving him the kiss of life. As he slowly returns to consciousness, he remembers the events that led to his accident on a mountain road. When
he wakes up he is aware of a woman sitting next to his bed. She tells him that he is herfavorite author.
Chapter 2: The woman, whose name is Annie Wilkes feeds him and gives him pain-killing tablets, but her, be haviour is terrifyingly unpredictable and she makes him wait before giving him his pain-killers. Paul keeps listening out for visitors to the house, but none come. Annie tells him how she rescued him from his overturned car and brought him home with her. Paul’s legs werebroken in the
crash and Annie put splints on them. She seems to know what she is doing and Paul assumes she must be a nurse.
Chapters 3–4: Before she gives him his pills, Annie tells Paul she has started reading the latest Misery Chastain novel. She is very enthusiastic about it. She also tells him she has found a typescript of a new novel in his bag. Paul tells her it is not a Misery novel andtells her she can read
it if she wants to. At first, Annie is very happy and tells Paul that she loves him, but the next day her mood has changed dramatically. She has been reading Paul’s new book and she doesn’t like it at all. She flies into a terrible rage and makes Paul take his pill with soapy water from a bucket.
Chapters 5–6: Two days later, Annie is looking extremely unwell. Paul suddenlyrealises she must have been reading the latest Misery novel and has reached the part where Misery dies. Annie is distraught and very angry with Paul. She tells him she has to go away for a while otherwise she will do something stupid. She leaves Paul alone and in pain for over two days without medicine. When she returns, Paul is desperate for the pills, but Annie refuses to give him any until heagrees to start burning the typescript of his new book. Paul has kept no copy, and for the first time he realizes he wants to kill Annie.
Chapter 7: While in a drug-induced sleep, Annie lifts Paul into a wheelchair. When he wakes up, she tells him she thinks he will get better if they don’t have any more arguments. She has brought him a second-hand typewriter with no ‘n’. She tells Paul she wantshim to write a new
Misery story and bring her back to life. Paul agrees, but says the paper she has bought is no good. This makes Annie very angry, and she punches Paul’s injured knee and leaves him alone in the house once again.
Chapters 8–9: While Annie is away, Paul manages to pick the lock of his bedroom door with a hairpin and to find a supply of painkillers in the bathroom. He checks tothe phone, but it is disconnected. He manages to get back to his room and hide the pills under his mattress just before
Annie comes back.
Chapter 10: Paul begins work on bringing Misery back to life. His first attempt is a failure, and Annie tells him it is unconvincing. Paul has to agree, and soon he is working enthusiastically on the new novel.
Chapter 11: Annie has a visitor from the localtown. She ties Paul up and warns him not to make a sound or she will kill the visitor. The man gives her a tax bill for over five hundred dollars. Annie is shaken, and to try to keep her calm, Paul says she can have the money in his wallet to pay the taxes. Three weeks pass and Paul progresses well with the Misery book.
Chapters 12–15: Annie’s mood changes again when the rain comes. Her behaviour isvery strange and she suggests she and Paul commit suicide together. Paul manages to dissuade her and she decides instead to go away again.
This time she leaves him some pills, but no food. So Paul uses the hairpin again to leave his room in search of a way to escape. But all the doors and windows are locked. There is no way out. While he is in the sitting room, he looks through Annie’s...