The Dead Zone story
A schoolteacher awakens from a coma to find he has psychic powers. It is based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Stephen King.
18 total · 1 choice · 6 major · 11 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| clairvoyance | choice | John woke up from a five year long coma with the psychic ability to learn about the past, present, and future of anyone he touches. |
| doctor and patient | major | John's doctor Dr. Sam Weizak helped him to come to grips with the fact that he had psychic powers after waking up from a five year long coma. |
| electioneering in society | major | We saw the crooked politician Greg Stillson using every dirty trick in the book to get elected to the U.S. senate. |
| political assassination | major | John resolved to shoot Greg Stillson dead to prevent him from starting a nuclear war in the future. |
| precognition | major | One of John's psychic powers was to be able to see into the future. In an example that was most important to the plot, he foresaw that Greg Stillson would become President of the United States and launch catastrophic preemptive nuclear strike against the Soviet Union. |
| professional politics | major | We saw the crooked politician Greg Stillson running for the U.S. senate. |
| romantic love | major | John and Sarah were crazy about each other at the start of the film, but then he fell into a five year long coma, during which time she married another man. But John never gave up his love for Sarah. |
| father and son | minor | John's father was delighted to have John and Sarah over for a family dinner. |
| husband and wife | minor | Sarah and Walt. |
| medical occupation | minor | John convalesced in a rural clinic under the care of Dr. Sam Weizak after walking up from a five year long coma. |