Whatever happened to Charlie?

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Joseph Burdette

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Setting aside that horrible Firestarter Two movie, what do you think happened to Charlie? Did the press help her? Did the government leave her alone? Or had the media been co-opted by the point and didn't help her? Did she have to run or was she captured? We know the Shop was still around come The Tommyknockers, but was Charlie?
 

Doc Creed

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Setting aside that horrible Firestarter Two movie, what do you think happened to Charlie? Did the press help her? Did the government leave her alone? Or had the media been co-opted by the point and didn't help her? Did she have to run or was she captured? We know the Shop was still around come The Tommyknockers, but was Charlie?
Sorry, just now seeing this thread.
Those are all great possibilities. I think Charlie probably made headlines and garnered enough support from the press and public to find her way. I'm tempted to say the Shop came for her again; this is a Stephen King story after all. I'm hoping some or all of these questions are answered one day; possibly in the upcoming novel,The Institute, a book about an organization which many fans are speculating may be The Shop 2.0. What do you think?

Charlie's mother and father are dead. If I remember correctly, Norma or Irv Manders died of cancer at the end. I think they had been threatened by the government not to let Charlie tell her story; a warning she obviously disregarded. She didn't really have any surviving family.