Just read it again. King's strongest point is his razor sharp delineation between the good, wholesome things in this world and their polar opposites. Think of that perfect day Louis spends flying a kite with his son Gage. Reminds you of the Let's Go Fly A Kite musical number in Mary Poppins. But then, sans foreshadowing, we're told coldly and simply that Gage will be dead in two months. It's like this author has done everything to, as Shakespeare said, hold the mirror up to life, to show the overflowing love that a father has for his son, and vice-versa. Yet he still has what it takes to stab the reader through the heart with a knife. And, though we'd rather think differently, King is still following Shakespeare's instructions. Did Shakespeare not write tragedies? Yes, he most certainly did. But with King we see at once the tragedy beyond the tragedy. We not only know that Gage will die, but that Louis can, he must, bring the boy back to life. But that's not natural. And, as Mary Shelly warned us, way back in the early 19th Century, twisting nature to man's will can have horrifying consequences.