Coming Of Age Story
Stephen King’s The Body was written in Different Seasons along with three other novels, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, and The Breathing Method. The Body is a coming of age story where the characters’ lives transition from innocence to adulthood. It is definitely no mistake that The Body appears in the section, “Fall from Innocence”; the plot itself takes place right between summer and fall.
Told in the first person by Gordie Lachance, the narrator remembers the last adventure that he and his three friends, Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp, and Vern Tessio, has. As the summer comes to a close, the boys hear about the dead body of Ray Bowers, a young boy from a neighboring town. Curious and excited, Gordie and his friends
Told in the first person by Gordie Lachance, the narrator remembers the last adventure that he and his three friends, Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp, and Vern Tessio, has. As the summer comes to a close, the boys hear about the dead body of Ray Bowers, a young boy from a neighboring town. Curious and excited, Gordie and his friends