How The Loss Of Life Depicted In Stephen King's 'The Long Walk'

The story, The Long Walk, by Stephen King, really makes you think about what people would do for money. As the book is about a walk for teenagers, the last person walking wins and if they slow down too many times they lose. It seems like a very tough task itself, but when you lose, you get shot by the soldiers on a halftrack. In this book it shows young people becoming, mentally unstable, starting to become rude and hurting people they hurt them physically or making their mental state go to an all time low, and hurting their own body just to keep going.

Firstly, everyone knows that a mental state is very important. Well if your mental state isn't the best then your physical state will slowly decrease. Further more at the end of the walk there is one winner, so even if you win your mental state will be terrible and you won't be able to live a good
You could get post traumatic stress disorder, you'd be thinking of your friends that died because of you. You'd be thinking of how they died and how people watched them die also you'd be thinking about how you didn't do anything to help them you just let them get shot. McVries said "No more musketeers. And now it's real." (King 346). McVries and Garraty, who is the main character. Are really close and when McVries says "No musketeers" he means that if someone falls you can't help them and if you do you'll be shunned for the rest of the walk. Being shunned would make a person pretty delusional, so once again they'd be getting mentally unstable and that's what they'd do for money and anything they'd desire. In the book there was a guy named Olson, Olson had high odds for winning and he thought he was going to win. Olson was happy going in