Vern Tessio's Quest For A False Dream In 'The Body'

When the main characters are first being introduced Gordie, the narrator, tells us a small story about his friend, Vern Tessio, who “buried a quart jar of pennies under the long Tessio front porch.” (300) Gordie later explains that Vern “was playing a pirate sort of game, and the pennies were buried treasure...He forgot all about it for a month or so...He tried to find the spot from memory and dug there. No luck. To the right and left of that spot. Still no luck,” (300-301). Vern’s penny jar, which he considers to be his treasure, is like his friendship with the rest of the boys. Their friendship is considered treasure due to the fact that they are each other's support system and they all stand by each other no matter what happens. The fact that Vern lost his treasured penny jar is like when the boys stop talking to each other after they come back home from finding Ray Brower’s dead body. Gordie later confirms this by saying “Teddy and Vern slowly became just two more faces in the halls or in three-thirty detention,” (432). Like the penny jar was never

The first week at his military school, Wes tried several times to went home. He had access to do a phone call to whoever he wanted to talk, if he would be able to convince that person in five minutes, then he could go back to home. On the phone his mother said, “Wes you don’t go anywhere until you give this place a try” (Moore 95). Wes wasn’t persuaded at first, but the words his mother told him must have stuck. He started doing better in school because he realized what his family has sacrificed in order for him to be there. Gradually, he became sergeant of platoon, a cadet master sergeant, and the youngest senior noncommissioned officer in the entire corps. Even though he was forced to stay in military school; slowly he changed his outlook in military school.

The last theme is the impossibility of dreams. Most of the characters dream of a

”pg 91. From this I can tell that Lennie is going to get in serious trouble and from him saying he won’t be able to tend the rabbits that the dream will not happen. These quotes from the foreshadows the idea of the dream dying because of Crooks and

Gordie’s recent loss of his brother, Dennis, shows him how horrible the world can be. Dennis is killed in an accident and he was the one in Gordie’s

All Cory ever wanted was the love of his Father and for him to understand where he was coming from, he wanted to accomplish a dream and to get into a college just to make his parents proud of him, he even tried so hard to not be like his father, yet in a way he is when it comes to being stubborn, with him going into the Marines, will help shape him into becoming more of a respectful understanding man. Cory then learns to respect the struggles his father had to go through which madehim into the person he was and because of that, Cory will be a better

In the essay “Volar” by Judith Oriz Cofer, Cofer and her parents’ both dream of getting away. While, Cofer dreams about becoming Supergirl, her parents dream of going to see her mother’s family. Her parents realize they cannot fly to Puerto Rico because of their financial issues, and Cofer’s dreams are unrealistic. In paragraph two, Coffer’s father says “…do you know how much...a vacation in Puerto Rico…would cast for all of us to fly there?” (Cofer). In paragraph one Cofer realizes her dream is unrealistic because “in the mornings [She] would wake up…unchanged” (Cofer). This shows that the obstacles both Cofer and her mother faced made both of their dreams fade away. If Cofer wouldn’t have woken up, unchanged she still would have been Supergirl

In Of Mice and Men George states, “I ain’t got time for no more,” (Steinbeck 15). This evidence helps prove that George really didn’t believe in the dream in the first place. In the book Crooks tells Lennie,” ...an’ every damn one of ‘em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn on of ‘em ever gets it, (Steinbeck 74). This tells us that Crooks already knows it won’t happen for them which also shows that it’s already predicted that their dream isn’t going to fall through. Steinbeck uses dialogue to help foreshadow the conclusion of this

Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses the topic of white America often throughout his book, Between the World and Me, as well as the struggles he has as a black American. The dream he portrays in his book consists of maintaining a well-paying job and eventually striving to become a wealthy, upper class citizen. Little do people know that the dream is not obtainable by everyone, Coates asserts that the American dream revolves around being white. Often times, blacks will begin to “act white” in order to achieve this American dream or achieve happiness in White America. Black people leave their natural physical appearance and language form in order to achieve this idea of “being white”. Personally, I find this to be bothersome. Still to this day we are

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

The “Body” is a novella written by Stephen King. When the four boys hear about the death of another boy, they seek out to find the body. This adventure becomes a turning point in the boys lives because this their first steps of adulthood. During the journey one boy in particular named Gordie Lachance was dealt will a lot challenges while the search of the body. Gordie loss of innocence and his maturity both came around the same time when he came across the dead body, which made him understand a lot things he didn't know before.

The notion of doubt can perceive the mind into thinking about the universal persona of the sense deceiving us. Descartes theory of the dream argument in the first mediation is that the senses do not have a way to be believable base on the perception, so therefore, the senses deceive our mind which causes doubt. Descartes states, to distinguish the dream experience from the wake experience is completely impossible. Which causes one to question all the perception in life because they are some of the same sensations while one is dreaming. So in this state of possibility that one can be dreaming at all times, all the perceptions in life are false experiences.

Adult Gordy, who is supposed to be a portrayal of present day King, went on a journey of his own through self reflection. This was far from a cruise down memory lane to Gordy, tapping into these memories meant reliving all of the very incidents that shaped him into who he is today. Friendships are one of the most enjoyable part of our lives, especially when we are young, reckless, and naive. For young Gordy, the friendships he had helped him stay true to himself and do what he loves best: writing. It was young Gordy’s best friend, Chris Chambers, that managed to convince him to stay a writer

One of Gordie’s character traits is creativity, Gordie has a talent for writing stories in

In the novel, Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M Coetzee, the magistrate’s progressive, non-linear dreams are a parallel to his growing involvement with the barbarians and his growing distaste for the empire. The great psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud said, “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious.” In every dream there is a hidden meaning and when the reader starts analyzing the magistrate’s dreams he reveals that he is oddly attracted to the barbarians and knows he should not get involved and it will be a trial to get close to them.