Short Blog #4 (Christine)

So far in the book, a lot happened. The main character, Arnie, finds this old car sitting in a front lawn of someone’s house while out driving with his best friend, Dennis. The two walk up to the front door after a bit of arguing over whether to bug the person living at the house about the car or not. The front door opens and reveals a grumpy, old veteran. He demands what the two boys wanted and Arnie asks for the car. The old veteran notices and his face turns into a look that unsettled Dennis a bit. Dennis begs his friend, Arnie to not get the car, but Arnie gets it anyways and now calls it “Christine”, as dubbed from her previous owner. Not too long after Arnie gets the car and fixes it up, he suddenly becomes less of a loser and is able to stand up to his school bullies, going as far as introducing himself to the transfer student, Leigh Cabot. They connect almost right away and Dennis sort of keeps an eye on the two new lovebirds and the car. Mostly the car though because ever since he first sat in the car back before Arnie bought it, he had really bad vibes from it. It turns out that “Christine” and the old veteran had a nasty past where Ronald LeBay’s daughter died in the car while choking on her hamburger, and his wife killed herself by running the car in the garage and inhaling carbon monoxide. Dennis learns about all this from the veteran’s brother, and becomes really worried for Arnie as he tries to reason with his friend on getting rid of the car. Leigh is also behind this as well because she felt like the car was trying to kill her by making her choke on her hamburger, like what happened to LeBay’s daughter. Arnie doesn’t believe any of this and sort of shuts out Leigh and Dennis, more focused on Christine than anyone else. It sounds like things are going to keep going downhill from here since there are now murders in the sleepy town of Libertyville, and detectives are pointing their fingers at Arnie, who defends himself and says that he was asleep at home when the first murder occurred, and out of town at a Chess Tourney when the second murder occurred.