As his fellow students start identifying with Charlie, he unwittingly turns the class into a sort of psychotherapy group, causing his schoolmates to semi-voluntarily tell embarrassing secrets regarding themselves and each other. Charlie admits to his hostages that he does not know what has compelled him to commit his deeds, believing he will regret them when the standoff is over. Charlie gives them certain commands, threatening to kill students if they do not comply. Over the following four hours, Charlie toys with the authority figures who attempt to negotiate with him, including the principal, the school psychologist, and the local police chief. As the other students and teachers evacuate the school, the police and media arrive at the scene. The fire triggers an alarm, but Charlie forces his classmates to stay in the room, killing a history teacher, Mr.
He then returns to his classroom and fatally shoots his algebra teacher, Miss Jean Underwood.
Charlie storms out of the office and retrieves a pistol from his locker, then sets the contents of his locker on fire. Charlie then subjects the principal to a series of insulting remarks, resulting in his expulsion. In response, King allowed the novel to fall out of print, and in 2013, he published a non-fiction, anti-firearms violence essay titled " Guns".Ĭharlie Decker, a Maine high school senior, is called to a meeting with his principal about a previous incident in which he struck his chemistry teacher with a pipe wrench, leading to the teacher's hospitalization and Charlie's suspension. The novel describes a school shooting, and has been associated with actual high school shooting incidents in the 1980s and 1990s. It was first published in 1977 and then, it was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books. Rage (written as Getting It On the title was changed before publication) is a psychological thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, the first he published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
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