Ted helps Billy realize that his friend Carol is more special to him than he thought, that he deserves better treatment from his mother, and that the town bully is not as powerful as he thinks. Even more important, though, is that way that Ted, like all special grown-ups in the lives of children, guides Billy to a new knowledge of himself and the world. When Billy touches Ted, he gets a little bit of Ted's psychic ability. He begins to see signs of the low men, but he does not tell Ted. Billy thinks Ted is a little loony, but he agrees, at first because he wants to earn money for the bicycle, and then because he is drawn to Ted's warmth, humor, and even his oddness. Peter Riley, a Freshman at the University of Maine, gets addicted to playing Hearts in the all-male dormitorywhere he lives. In 'Low Men in Yellow Coats,' 11-year-old Bobby Garfield falls under the spell of an. They share a collective moodiness, a feeling of depressed hangover coming after youth has been lost and the nation has suffered troubled times. The story takes place at the University of Maine in 1966. 'This collection of five thematically-linked short stories dwells on the legacy of the 1960s. Billy's mom takes in stranger Ted Brautigan (Anthony Hopkins), who hires Billy to read to him and watch out for "the low men," who wear hats, drive fancy cars, and leave odd messages in code on telephone poles. 'Hearts in Atlantis' is a short story written by Stephen King and published in the collection with the same name. His widowed mother can't buy him the bicycle he dreams and is quick to remind him that they have very little money. It is summertime, and Billy has just turned 11.
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