stand by me? salad bowl?
Salad is delicious. Except for the typical salad with just some lettuce and thousand island dressing, salad decorated with yogurt dressing, fruits, and some nuts always makes me happy and excited.
Thinking of that, human society is very similar to the salad. Society, the cluster of people, forms various cultures, events, etc. If each individuals, each ingredients for 'society' salad, keep up their own style, that society would be tasty, dynamic, and unique. However, if those individual try to hide their style, and try to fix themselves into the 'standard'(lettuce with thousand island dressing), that society would be typical and banal.
In 'The Body', four characters Gordie, Chris, Vern, and Teddy, make up a delicious salad on their own. Their miniscule society is tasty enough, so far.
Gordie, the narrator, is a boy who used to have an outstanding brother, Dennis. His family only cared about Dennis: Dennis joining the army, his clothes, etc. In that family, Gordie felt like he was a Negro, whom people never notices at all unless making up a trouble. After Dennis died, his parents fell into a total despair, just sticking their mind into a closed coffin box of Dennis. Moreover, Gordie is having a trouble with his father about his friends.
Chris is a kid who is quite mature. His relationship is even worse than Gordie(His father is a drunk). He sometimes skips the school, and most people have a negative image towards him. Due to that, Chris got suspended because of teacher's misinterpretation that he stole some money.
Unlike Gordie and Chris, Teddy is kind of childish. He is wearing a thick glasses due to his innately bad eyesight. His hearing also got bad because his father shoved Teddy's head down to the cast-iron burner plates for breaking a plate. Because of that incident, Teddy also have the flesh-colored button. But in spite of that incident, Teddy likes his father.
Vern is the kid who first suggested to find the dead body of Ray Brower. He has a brother Billy who is in the clumsy gang. One thing that is peculiar about Vern is that he is quite obsessed with the penny jar he hid four years ago. He used to dig under the porch, and hid a penny jar there. He drew a map of that jar, but after his mother burned that map into the chimney, he had somewhat obligation to find that jar.
These four characters are sewing the story with threads. I hope their creation is fascinating. :)
Nice post, and glad to see that you wrote a better one after this. I anticipate good things on the exam.:)
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