How does the point of view of The Body impact your analysis of the text? How does the narrator’s characterization impact your reading of the text? Do you trust that Gordie is telling the truth - and why?

PART ONE: Reread the definitions for point of view and characterization. ( posted under the Stephen King section)

Gordie is the narrator who seems to know the truths of his friends from the distance of writing their story as a grownup.

How does the point of view of The Body impact your analysis of the text?
How does the narrator’s characterization impact your reading of the text? Do you trust that Gordie is telling the truth – and why?

PART TWO: The Body is a novel with a specific social and political and historic and economic contexts.

Identify and define one of the above contexts at work in the novel and analyze how it supports the novel’s content, the story itself.
What larger statements are being made by using these social and political and historic and economic contexts?

How does the point of view of The Body impact your analysis of the text? How does the narrator’s characterization impact your reading of the text? Do you trust that Gordie is telling the truth – and why?