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This natural event begins before the mist arrives.
What is a violent thunderstorm?
David notices this strange and inconvenient detail on the drive to the supermarket with Brent and Billy.
What is the radio not working?
What is a dream about a God taller than the clouds walking through the woods?
This theme appears in the scene where the woman asks for help walking home.
What is fear can overpower compassion.
What is a property dispute?
King describes the mist's movement as unnatural in these two ways.
What is against the wind and unnaturally straight.
How does the teen react when Mrs. Carmody warns that going into the mist means “death”?
He tells her to shut up, while some people believe her and stay in place.
This final event in Chapter 3 hints that human behavior will become a problem.
What is the woman begging for someone to walk her home, leading her to walk outside into the mist, disappearing forever.
This theme is developed as the townspeople argue in the store.
Panic causes people to turn against each other.
What does Mrs. Carmody keep saying?
What is "it is death out there?"
This notable setting is about 30 miles to the north of David's home, and is the source of much speculation.
This detail in chapter 3 confirms there is something dangerous in the mist.
What is the unnaturally long shrieking in the mist?
This is the reason the woman in chapter 3 told all of the members in the store they could "rot in hell."
What is no one would offer to walk her home to the kids she was babysitting?
This central theme begins to emerge as the mist cuts people off from the world and they are left with each other.
What is human behavior can become more dangerous than unseen threats.