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Stand By Me
1. The four main characters of the story Stand by Me are Gordie Lachance, Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp, and Vern Tessio. Gordie Lachance is a 12 going on 13 year old boy from Castle Rock, Oregon. His older brother Denny was killed in a jeep accident, this leads to Gordies mother ignoring him and his father hating him. Chris Chambers is one of the four boys who traveled to find the boy who was killed Ray Brower. Chris’s dad is an alcoholic, and his brother is friends with the groups bully. Teddy Duchamp is the craziest person out of the group. His dream job is to work for the army. But when his father held his ear against a stove he got a hearing impairment. Finally Vern Tessio is the short larger kid of the group. He is often picked on by Teddy and He has a brother, Billy, who is a part of Ace's bully gang.

2. The relationship between Gordie and his father is not a strong relationship after Gordies older brother Denny was killed in a jeep accident. This leads to Gordies mother ignoring him and his father hating him. Gordie and his father are so distant because Gordie new his father was not proud of him. Denny had so much potential. Denny was a high school football star who would …show more content…
I think the boys decided not to take the boy’s body back to castle rock because to many questions would be asked, the Ace’s gang would kill the boys and moving the body would be disrespectful. The boys realized throughout the movie that they are only kids. They still have their whole lives ahead of them. That don’t need to have the unnecessary questions of why, how, what asked by family and friends on how they found the body and why they didn’t call the cops. The boys went on this adventure because they wanted to find the missing boy’s body. But that wasn’t the real reason, all the boys had a story, they all didn’t want to stay at home. The boys wanted to go out and live, grow up. So this was one excuse to give purpose to their lives and give them something to strive
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