In Stephen King’s semi-autobiographical novella The Body and its film version Stand by Me, Gordon---or “Gordy,” for short, a loving, middle-aged father and author, reflect on the journey he experienced back in 1959/1960; the first time he saw a dead body. “Adult Gordy” narrates the story of the unforgettable two-day journey he went on with his best friends at the time, Teddy, Vern, and Chris. Along the way, “Childhood Gordy” was searching for answers; questioning the problems within his family, his identity, and the strength of his friendships. As he self-reflects, now with more wisdom and maturity, Adult Gordy learns lessons that substantially differed from those learned by his 12-going-on-13-year-old self. One of the most important lessons Childhood Gordy learned was finding his identity; trying to be confident in who he was, becoming mature, and less self-conscious. Before this adventure, Gordy was a shy, young boy, hiding in the shadow of his older brother, Denny. His parents would ignore him, putting all their focus and energy towards Denny; Gordy even went as far as to calling himself the “Invisible Boy” in The Body, since his parents ignored him so much after Denny’s death. Denny was one of the only people who loved and believed in Gordy so when he died, it really hit him hard. Between his family life and the image he had of himself, Gordy was not confident in who he was, especially in his writing and storytelling skills. As the boys traveled down the train tracks
In the book All the Broken Pieces, by Ann e. Burg, the main character Matt Pin compares himself to his bother Tommy. He describes how their physical features, along with their emotions and metal stage, are divergent. Matt correlates himself to fall, while he compares his sibling to summer.
In the novel, All the Broken Pieces, by Ann E. Burg, Matt makes a comparison between himself and his brother when he defines his brother as “summer” and himself as “fall”. This metaphor can be explained not only by their physical features, but their emotional and mental characteristics as well. His brother features summer and hasn’t faced any misery, while he himself looks like fall and has come across atrocious things.
Stacey and T.J have a lot of differences and contrast between their lifestyles, and their behaviour in the story. Stacey is a thirteen year old boy who acts as an adult and a child, and isn't so happy for this school year because his mother is the teacher. T.J is an oblivious thirteen year old troublemaker whose parents are sharecroppers for a man named Harlan granger, and brings lots of trouble to the Logan family in the story . They each are good friends, but in the middle of the book they start to have some issues with trusting each other. Stacey and T.J have many differences and contrast in the story that makes them unique from one being a troublemaker and a responsible person.
The characters in “Stand and Deliver” went through a great deal in this movie and all brought something else to the movie. The star of the movie is Jaime Escalante played by Edward James Olmos. Escalante is the teacher of the students that quits his job with a computer company to teach at Garfield High School. He comes to teach computer science, but the school did not get the computers and he has to teach math. He takes over the math class and expects a great deal of his students and challenges the faculty to allow him to teach Mr. Escalante encounters some opposition to teaching calculus from Mr. Molina, the principal and Raquel Ortega, a teacher. Mr. Molina is the principal of
Gordy La Chance, who is the narrator of this story, can best be described as an introvert. He is living in the shadow of his recently deceased brother, and is having a difficult
I, Matthew Tohme, am writing this character reference letter in support of Kimberly McCarthy and to express my belief that she is more than adequately capable of raising her child in a way that is in his best interest. I have known I first met Kim and Jordan when they moved across the street from me in April and since then have become very close to them.
Every town has at least one person always seeking attention in everything he or she does. In the small town of Maycomb County, this busybody is Miss Stephanie Crawford. If anything remotely interesting happens, Miss Stephanie makes her business to know all about it. A lack of new material simply requires Miss Stephanie to invent her own drama with whatever she can think of. Because of her ability to take everything that happens in the town of Maycomb and turn it into some extravagant gossip, Miss Stephanie Crawford is Maycomb County's most revealing member.
Claire Standish is the typical popular, mainstream, and rich prom ruler at her high school. When she decided to ditch school and instead go to the mall she got served a Saturday Detention . Claire’s parents also don't have the best relationship and they mostly use Claire as an excuse to get at each other's throats. Claire is stuck up, snooty, and has clearly stated that she will not hang out with you if your so called not popular at school. In the movie she also states that she her decisions mostly are not based on her own feelings, but her peers and parents feelings or so called, peer pressure.
John C. Maxwell said, "A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and show the way". This quote is related to Ulysses Everett McGill from Oh Brother, Where Art Thou, because Everett McGill is a great leader from this story and he makes good decisions. The film Oh Brother, Where Art Thou is a 2000 adventure film written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The main character Everett is a interesting figure. After watching this film, I recognized that this character is very similar to Odysseus from the film/book The Odyssey.
In the movie Silver Linings Playbook, Pat Solatano, Sr., the character of the father, a sixty-five year old male, exhibits symptoms and meets the diagnostic criteria for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), as explained in the DSM-V (CITE APA). He also participates in gambling. The character presents with extreme organization, in his study, by numbering envelopes, and organizing the recordings of the Philadelphia Eagles football games in precise order. He is obsessed with the Philadelphia Eagles football team and their success. His symptoms present as ritualistic and repetitive. He exhibits attachment to his son Pat, Jr., and feels he brings the football team good luck. The symptoms present daily, and many are specific to the Philadelphia Eagles football games. He wears special clothing that is the team color of green, and
In the novella The Body, author Stephen King makes an attempt to explain a story about losing innocence, only to be replaced by maturity and the corruption that comes with it. To do so, King revolves a story around a group of four boys who go on a life changing journey to find a dead body they heard about through the grape vine. Little did they know that pursuing this journey would eventually change them for the worse. In its entirety, the crux of the novella was to show how the experience of meeting death hands-on will pivot a person’s life and will either lead them onto a slippery slope or mold them in to a man soon to be. More specifically, King reinforces this theme beautifully by using light imagery during the
In The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, there are two social groups: the Greasers and the Socs. The Socs are the more popular, and rich kids, and the Greasers are the poorer and less popular kids. Throughout the book, the Socs treat the Greasers horribly. Because of these two social classes, the protagonist, Ponyboy, and his friends, who are all greasers, feel like outsiders. I believe that everyone has, at one point in their life, felt like an outsider.
An important relationship between characters in the film “Stand by me” Directed by Rob Reiner is the relationship between two characters, Chris Chambers and Gordie LaChance. We gain an understanding of this relationship through the use of dialogue, different camera shots, music and the parallel between Teddy and Vern.“Stand by me” gives us the story, narrated by adult Gordie, about a particular Journey involving four childhood friends, Teddy, Vern and Chris that happened in the summer of 1959 and that his outlook on life forever.
Gordy La Chance, who is the narrator of this story, can best be described as an introvert. He is living in the shadow of his recently deceased brother,
In the Novel the body by Stephen king The Character Gordie Lachance is a very girfted kid. Gordie is very creative having the ability to create stories for his friends and he also like writing stories. Gordie is also has good teamwork skills being able to act efficient in a group of people. Gordie was also neglected but he still managed to be successful.