Warning: This article contains spoilers fromThe Institute, by Stephen King.
Its the kind of sentiment were seeing more from the best-selling author these days.
The Institutecenters on Luke Ellis, a 12-year-old kid who has small but potent telekinetic powers.
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Everyone is focused on his intelligence except the Institute, a secret organization that specializes in kidnapping children.
Theyre more concerned about Lukes powers, and theyre not messing around.
In the books beginning stages, they kidap him and murder his parents.
He meets young people just like him: Avery, Kalisha, Nicky, George.
But new kids keep coming as old friends disappear into the terrifyingly mysterious Back Half.
Luke knows he has to escape before hes taken to the Back Half; the only question is how.
Its an eternal ethical question King is playing with.
(AsVox nicelyput it: The philosophical problem of killing baby Hitler.)
Children are imprisoned and enslaved all over the world.
Hopefully, people who readThe Institutewill find a resonant chord with this administrations cruel and racial policies.)
Thats not to say King veers toward speechifying.
The kids hope not.
But the story stops there.
