After reading 30pages of "The Body" by Stephen King
First thing that I noticed while reading "The Body" is that there are lots of descriptions about child's problems. For instance, Teddy in the story gets child abuse from his dad, almost losing the hearing of both ears by his father who push him still to the hot stove. The narrator, Gordie, is also the one who thinks that he himself is an unwanted son of his parents. Vern is the child who is relative dumb compared to other kids in his age; there even comes out the description that Vern has failed in his class. All of those descriptions immediately made me ask how the childhood of Stephen King was.
In about 30pages from the start, there comes out a story made by Gordie. It is a story within the story. It talks about a narrator who has trouble within his family and who feels that he is being alone, separate from his dad and his new stepmother, Virginia. It is actually quite similar to Gordie's own story. So this story within the story works as the reflection of Gordie's life and how he thinks about himself and his surroundings. (Being elaborate, it is quite interesting that his new stepmother's name is chosen to be Virginia(having its origin from virgin), when she is a character who is described to be a whore who attracts both his father and his older brother.)
The story is getting warmed up as it reveals boys' goals to go adventure to see the dead body. More elaborate journal will come out as I get deep into the story! (I hope!)
This is a good first post, and I'm sure a better one will follow as you dive in. But you make some interesting points, and you connect it to Stephen King's childhood. He, himself, admits that there are themes that could come from his own biography, and he did write Stud City as a university student. I think that's why the name Virginia was used, as a young writer in university would try hard to be as writerly as possible, and of course be caught up in those kinds of emotions. I never though of the name like that.
답글삭제Good job.