Loss Of Childhood Innocence In The Body, By Stephen King
Stephen King’s The Body, is a short novella about four boy’s who embark on a journey to search for a dead body, that will determine whether or not they’re capable of losing their childhood innocence. Throughout the boys journey they come across many life threatening situations, which forces them to use survival instincts, that corresponds to their true personalities. The unique ways in which the boys handled the situations put forth in front of them, foreshadows whom they truly are as well as their individual abilities to lose their childhood innocence. Gordie, Chris, Vern and Teddy are all lower class boys who are neglected by their families. The abuse they are forced to absorb scars them mentally. “It should have been you Gordon.” This quote symbolizes how Gordie was rejected by his family. Their rejection makes them feel unwanted, so they mutually decide to look for the body of missing Ray Brower to obtain fame and fortune. Little do these boys know that the quest they are about to embark on will determine what kind of person they truly are, which makes this quest more than
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Before the quarrel officially began between the younger boys and the older boys, Teddy and Vern ran away from the scene because they knew they were going to get hurt. But Chris and Gordie did not flee from the scene because they did not want to relinquish the body of the boy whom they desperately tried to find for an extensive period of time. Chris and Gordie made the older boys evacuate the scene once Chris threatened them with his fathers gun once he asks Ace where he wants to get shot. The seriousness of Chris and Gordie standing their ground and defending themselves from a real threat, finalizes their transition to adulthood because it proves that they’re both mature enough to handle
Before the quarrel officially began between the younger boys and the older boys, Teddy and Vern ran away from the scene because they knew they were going to get hurt. But Chris and Gordie did not flee from the scene because they did not want to relinquish the body of the boy whom they desperately tried to find for an extensive period of time. Chris and Gordie made the older boys evacuate the scene once Chris threatened them with his fathers gun once he asks Ace where he wants to get shot. The seriousness of Chris and Gordie standing their ground and defending themselves from a real threat, finalizes their transition to adulthood because it proves that they’re both mature enough to handle