The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Published: 6, April 1999
Author: Stephen King
Genre: American, Coming Of Age, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Psychic, Psychological, Survival, Suspense, Thriller
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Summary
A family hiking trip sets the story in motion, during which Trisha's brother, Pete, and mother constantly argue about their mother's divorce from their father, among other things.
Trisha retreats to avoid listening and, as a result, is unable to locate her family after wandering off the trail to use the restroom.
In an attempt to catch up, she slips and falls down a steep embankment and becomes hopelessly lost, heading deeper into the heart of the forest.
She has a bottle of water, two Twinkies, a boiled egg, celery sticks, a tuna sandwich, a bottle of Surge, a poncho, a Game Boy, and a Walkman left to her.
She listens to her Walkman to keep her spirits up, either to learn about the search for her or to hear a baseball game featuring her favorite player, and "heartthrob," Tom Gordon.
Trisha's family returns to their car without her and calls the police to begin a search as she begins to take steps to survive by conserving what little food she has with her while consuming edible flora.
The rescuers look around the path, but not as far as Trisha has gone. Because of what she read in Little House on the Prairie, the girl decides to follow a creek (though it soon turns into a swamp-like river), reasoning that all bodies of water eventually lead to civilization.
As the cops stop looking for her, she huddles beneath a tree to rest. Trisha begins to hallucinate as a result of a combination of fear, hunger, and thirst.
Several people from her past, as well as her hero, Tom Gordon, appear to her. It's unclear whether the increasingly visible signs of supernatural occurrences in the woods are also hallucinations.
Hours, and soon days, pass as Trisha wanders deeper into the woods. Trisha eventually comes to believe that she is on the verge of a confrontation with the God of the Lost, a wasp-faced evil entity on the hunt for her.
Her trial becomes a test of a 9-year-old girl's ability to remain sane in the face of apparent death.
She comes across a road while suffering from pneumonia and on the verge of death, but just as she discovers signs of civilization, she is confronted by a bear, which she interprets as the God of the Lost in disguise.
Facing her fear, she realizes it's the bottom of the ninth inning and she needs to end the game. She takes a pitcher's stance and throws her Walkman like a baseball, hitting the bear in the face and startling it enough for it to back away.
A hunter who comes across the fight between girl and beast scares the beast away and takes Trisha to safety, but Trisha knows she earned her rescue.
Trisha awakens in a hospital bed. Her divorced parents and older brother are waiting for her by her bedside.
A nurse informs the girl's family that they must leave in order for Trisha to rest because "her numbers are up and we don't want that."
Her father is the last one to depart. Trisha asks him to hand her a Red Sox hat (signed by Tom Gordon) before he leaves, and she points to the sky, just as Tom Gordon does when he ends a game.
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