The Body Stephan King

Where's the body?

The story takes place during the summer of 1959 in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. A neighborhood kid named Ray Brower had gone out to pick berries and never returned. He died hited by a train. Gordon Lachance and his three friends, Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp, and Vern Tessio, are main characters which discoverd the location of the dead body and travel to find it.
In comparison to King's prior works, the narrative of The Body is complicated in that it is told in first person point of view by the now thirty-something(years old) novelist Gordon Lachance. Most of the story is a straight retrospective of that what happened, but comments, or entire chapters that relate to the present time, are interspaced throughout.Although he is only twelve at the time of the story, Gordon's favorite diversion is writing and storytelling. Three times during the narrative, he tells stories to his friends, and two stories are presented in the text as short stories by Gordon Lachance, complete with attribution to the magazines they were published in.
As much as the story itself is basically a coming of age tale of Gordon and his friends and their mostly comical adventures in the woods, there is a bittersweet, poignant quality running throughout it. This is especially the case whenever Gordon, the narrator, begins waxing nostalgic when describing the bygone sights and sounds of the town he grew up in or when delving into some of the more painful and bitter aspects about his own and his pals' normal live problems. In the end, the story becomes more of a chronicle describing the moment when Gordon and his chums leave their childhood behind and a bellwether as to the tragic fates that would befall all but Gordon.