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Stephen King

The Body

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1982

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Essay Topics

1.

Why does Gordie write that the most important things are also the hardest to say?

2.

Gordie’s career as a writer mirrors that of Stephen King’s own career. What does this reveal about King’s own relationship with storytelling?

3.

What does Chris mean when he says that Ray Browers was “ours?” (164).

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