cape. Also Paul wouldn’t be able to leave the house with all of his injuries.5.The attempt for an escape- this is one of the best parts of the story because this is where Paul tries to leave the house for the first time. When Anne leaves to go shopping in town about four miles away Paul tries to make a crawl for the exit. His legs aren’t healed yet but they are okay enough for him to drag them with ought feeling a lot of pain. First he slides out of the bed onto the floor. Next he slides himself to the edge of the stairs and crawls down to the first floor of this two-story house. Once he makes it to the kitchen door to escape, Anne is pulling up in the driveway. In panic he crawls back up stairs and into his bed. This is important because it brings us to the next painful event in Paul’s life.6.Bone crunching- When Anne gets inside, she walks up to see how Paul is doing. But there is a penguin statue that he bumped into on his way upstairs and turned it so it faced south. Anne remembered that it faced north and she knew Paul had tried to leave. Once Anne got in the room she saw that Paul was panting and sweating .So she set his legs between two 2x4 pieces of wood and smashed his feet with a sledgehammer. This is important because it is major setback in Paul’s near escape. It also adds to the plot and suspense in the story.7.The typewriter- Anne’s main idea for breaking Paul’s legs worse than they were was to make him type her knew stories of the previously ended Misery series. So Paul would sit in a wheelchair and type until his fingers and head ached as much as his smashed bones did. Once he had stopped typing and refused to keep going, so Anne chopped of his thumbs with an axe. This is important to Paul because it makes him start to go crazy from being held captive for so long.8.Misery’s return- This is in the bedroom where Paul has been typing this story for months. Anne walks in with champagn...
