What are the motifs in The Regulators by Stephen King?

Reality versus fantasy is a recurring idea in the story. As the novel begins, the reader meets a neighborhood of happy, carefree people. There is the alcoholic, the school teacher, the writer. There are the good-looking kids with the perfect dog and the not-so-perfect paperboy. They are cookie cutter images of a perfect neighborhood, leaving the reader rooted in reality, but wondering if it is all too good to be true. Then, in the blink of an eye, things begin to change.