For my book, I chose to read The Body of Stephen King. This novel tells the story of four young boys who go on a journey to find a body somewhere in the woods on the county line. This story is about more than four boys going on adventures, they become closer to each other and learn real life lessons along the way. The four boys are all entering their first year of college, so this is a time in their lives where they are learning things that will help them in life. In the first major scene, the boys are all in a treehouse where Vern's character tells the other three boys about the body. Vern is the outcast of the group who ridicules their jokes, Teddy is a boy who was abused by his father and is a strange kid, Chris is the tough guy of the group and the leader and Gordy who is the narrator and the story is seen from his point of view. The boys are all convinced that going after the body and eventually finding it would make them all heroes and that everyone would want to know them. So the boys decide to go ahead and try to find the body. The boys pack their bags and all tell their parents that they are sleeping at one of the other houses and that the next day they are going to the drag races. So they meet downtown and prepare to embark on their journey. Gordy and Chris meet first and Chris shows off the .45 pistol he borrowed from his old man, who was probably too drunk to notice. But while holding Gordy asks if it's loaded and Chris tells him it's not. But when he pulls the trigger, the fire starts. They take off from behind the building where they were. They go to meet the other two guys and embark on their journey. They start on the train tracks and begin their journey to find the lifeless body of a boy their age who met his fate on a moving train. A little further into the journey, they discover that they forgot to assign the task of bringing the food. They gather the money they have and plan for one person to go buy the things..