How Does Gordie Create Tension In Stand By Me

They are always doing something that is frowned upon. In the end, the older boys try to steal the credit of discovering the body (Reiner). They try to scare away the younger boys, which shows that they even think they are tougher. They used threats to try to take the body, which is another example of them trying prove that their older. These scenes gave evidence that the older boys portray the tough, rebellious, teenage bad boy

The boys follow Big Boy and give him their attention mainly because they have to; he is bigger than them and quickly becomes the leader of Bobo after the deaths of the other boys. Also, this “train” of boys is indeed headed for Glory, though they “burst out laughing” when they think of it. The physical train is a metaphor for the escape to the vaunted North (a land the boys assume they will never see). This is important to the text because it sets up Big Boy’s escape to Chicago later in the story.

The gun is a motif in this film and represents the death of Ray Brewer and the protection which he did not have. Similarly, it could also represent the safety which the four boys didn’t have in their lives. It also refers to the significance of guns to American’s and their right to keep and bear arms. The director, Rob Reiner has used a close up camera angle to show the expression on Gordy and Chris’s face. The excitement on their faces gives the idea that they have never seen a gun before, and hence are growing up due to this new experience. As a result of these new experiences, the boys are becoming more aware and vulnerable to the would around them. This is also evident when the boys return back to Castle Rock after their journey. They find their home town a little smaller compared to when they left and this is because they have matured and grown up a

Since the boys were children, the audience can see the differences with their families, the way they are treated by the people around them and indeed their lives.

Rites of passage, the journeys that dot the edges of our ultimate quest through life. They are the universal changes that can be as insignificant as a first kiss but with everlasting effects on our perspective on life. Stand By Me is a movie that was first released in 1986 from the studios of Director Robert Reiner. It details the story of four pre-adolescent teens, Gordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern who embark upon a quest to find the dead body of Ray Brower, a kid also around their age that had been missing from the town for weeks. These friends trek many miles with less than adequate food and nothing but their friendships holding them together. It is during this quest that, after setting out to find the body, finding it and then being

Intro: The film ‘Stand by Me’, produced in 1986 by director Rob Reiner, set in the town of Castle rock in 1959 demonstrates how a group of four young boys undertake an incredible and self-discovering journey, which in turn, allows them to uncover untouched things about themselves.

The author, who put himself as narrator, describes how he walks through the halls of the university and approaches the upper school and its playground, and he seems to get so emotionally attached that he cannot take another turn. “I turned right so as not to

Through this mysterious act, one has to wonder why the boys are doing this, deliberately?  It only shows that the stones will play a role in the imminent future.

You can hear the force and fury of the storm, and this makes the emotions the boy is feeling seem even more intense.

Pg 12- “In the back bedroom he could hear trains passing. Lying beside him sleeping brother, he’d listen to the broad, low sound: faint, then rising, faint again, then high, beckoning whistles, then gone. The sound of it brought goose bumps. Lost in longing, Louie imagined himself on a train, rolling into country he couldn’t see, growing smaller and more distant until he disappeared.”

There is an excitement that continues to build as the boys speak to each other, in tense words filled with simple masculine competitiveness, trying to one-up each other. Nervousness is implied in the line "they clear their throats a lot". We know that something is going to take place, something significant and important in the lives of the mother and the boy.

Fear in Journey's End The definition of ‘fear’ is a feeling of agitation and anxiety caused by the presence or imminence of danger. ‘Fear’ is reflected by the continual tension throughout the play. All the characters deal with fear in their own different ways. This reflects their personality and gives us an outline of how they really deal with the troubles, which arise during their experiences in a dangerous surrounding, and also, by dealing with the outcomes that they have to face in life.

In the short story, "Two men and others looked at the four boys jumping and jiggling on the platform and thought, It must be fun to ride that way" (191). Men normally have influence to control dangerous situations and instead of using this power to persuade the boys to come into a safe place, they allow the children to continue to endanger their lives. The women on the train " became very angry when they look at the four boys. Most of them brought their brows together hoping the boys would see their extreme disapproval" (191).

Many classic movies like Stand By Me, often started out as books. Originally written as a novella, The Body by Stephen King was later turned into a movie. Being directed by Rob Reiner and produced by Bruce A. Evans, Reynold Gideon, and Andrew Scheinman, Stand By Me turned out to be a movie very similar to the book it was based on. Both the movie and the novella tell the story of four boys, Gordie Lachance, Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp, and Vern Tessio, who set out on a journey to find the body of a missing child. While they are both alike, there are also differences in the characters, dialogue, and plot.

Stand by Me is a heart strung movie that begins with the main character Gordie, as middle-aged man. While sitting in a pickup truck on the side of the road lost in thought, he glances to the seat next to him about an article that a man was fatally stabbed in a restaurant trying to break up an argument. As two boys slowly ride past the truck and into the distance, Gordie recounts a tragic experience of death that he had when he was younger which ties both the past and present together. He recounts a story about how he and his three friends- Vern, Chris, and Teddy, learned about a dead body found by Vern’s brother at the railroad tracks. The body, presumably a missing boy named “Ray Brower”, whom the state was still searching for, would make