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In the TV Show |
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Barbie lived in Chester's Mill before Dome Day. |
He is shown burying someone, and doesn't know anyone in town. |
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Julia Shumway is in her 40's and has been divorced for 10 years. |
She is much younger. She is married, but her husband is out of town.
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The local paper is called the Democrat. |
It is named the Independent. |
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Big Jim is Chester's Mill's Second Selectman. |
He is a councilman.
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Reverend Coggins has secret deals with Big Jim. |
Duke Perkins deals with Big Jim. |
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Linda Everett is a part time cop, married mother of two. |
She is a full time cop with no kids who is engaged.
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Rusty Everett is a doctor. |
He is a firefighter. |
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Junior Rennie has a brain tumor that caused him to be a sociopath. |
He is very jealous.
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Angie McCain is killed by Junior Rennie in the beginning of the story. |
She lives and has a younger brother and has a relationship with Junior. |
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Dodee Sanders works at the Sweetbriar Rose. |
She works at WYBS, the local radio station.
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This doesn't happen. |
There is a lesbian couple featured who have a daughter. |
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The Dome suddenly appears but is invisible and no one notices it until they start crashing into it. |
There is an earthquake and strong winds prior to the dome forming.
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The story begins with Claudette flying a plane that crashes. |
The story begins with Barbie burying Julia Shumway's husband. |
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A woodchuck is cut in half by the dome. |
A cow is cut in half by the dome.
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Several of the police in town are away for a training exercise with the firefighters when the dome appears. |
All the cops are there and only the firefighters are away from town. |
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Linda is inside the dome with her husband Rusty. |
Rusty is one of the firefighters caught outside the dome and away from his girlfriend.
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The local radio station is WCIK and plays Christian music. |
It is a rock station named WYBS. |
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The TV's work inside the dome and the locals watch CNN at the Sweetbriar Rose. |
The TV signals cannot enter the dome.
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Sound can travel through the dome and people on either side can talk to each other. |
Sound doesn't get through at all. |
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Angie McCain and Janelle Everett suffer seizures. |
Joe McCallister adn Norrie have seizures.
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After a seizure Janelle yes "It's the Great Pumpkin's fault." |
After seizures they yell "Pink stars falling in lines." |
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There are very few deaths and injuries because of the dome. |
The hospital is full of people who were hurt by the dome.
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Air, water, lasers and radio signals get through the dome. |
Nothing can penetrate the dome. |
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Paul Randolph becomes the sheriff after Duke dies. |
Paul loses it and is killed and Linda becomes the sheriff.
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Norrie is a life long resident of Chester's Mill. |
Norrie's parents are taking her to a camp for troubled teens and are stopped in Chester's Mill for gas when the dome comes down. |
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Angie and Joe are not related. |
Angie and Joe are brother and sister.
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Phil Bushey is a meth cook. |
Phil Bushey is a popular radio DJ. |
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Duke Perkins is Police Chief. |
Duke Perkins is Sheriff.
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Rusty and Freddy are not related. |
Rusty and Freddy are brothers. |
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The barrier walls conform exactly to the Chester's Mill town border. |
The dome is round.
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Ollie Dinsmore is a young boy. |
Ollie Dinsmore is a man in his sixties. |
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Maxine (a character not found in the book) runs a gambling event that is similar to Fight Club where participants gamble necessities for the chance to win luxury items.
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Julia Shumway is the editor of the Democrat, a paper that has been in her family for generations. |
Julia Shumway is the new editor of the paper, unknown to the town as yet. |
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Duke Perkins died instantly on Dome Day when the Dome came down. |
Duke Perkins is alive and well in the television show.
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Phil "the cook" Bushy is considered missing, though he is in fact hiding in the local christian radio station cooking crystal meth. Is described as caucasian. |
Phil Bushy is the Deejay at the local rock station, later becomes a volunteer police officer. Is african american. |