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The Body Gordon Lachance Analysis

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"The Body 's" narrator, the adult Gordon Lachance, describes the summer of 1960 when he and three twelve-year old friends—Chris Chambers, Vern Tessio and Teddy Duchamp—journeyed to look at the dead body of a boy their age, Ray Brower. Along the way, Gordon and his friends encounter a series of obstacles: an angry dump worker who does not want them to use his water pump, a corrupt store owner who tries to overcharge the boys for their purchases, a disgusting leech-filled pond they must traverse, a narrow train trestle spanning a bridge they must cross, a frightening night in the woods, older boys who threaten to beat them and take credit for the discovery of the dead boy 's body, and finally, the horrific and unsettling encounter with the
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