the body of the dead kid, what does it symbolize? what is its purpose to the four boys and their journey?
2006-11-03 03:40:31 · 9 answers · asked by boo 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Their lost childhood
2006-11-04 08:32:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Loss of Innocence is pretty close, but doesn't explain why Kiefer Sutherland and the older kids were just as keen to find the body as the 4 young ones were.
I have two answers for you, pick the one you like best:
The body symbolized "Maturity", or "Sexual Awakening". "Loss of Innocence" makes it sound as though they had something stolen from them, when in fact they eagerly sought after this "loss of innocence".They had a shared , immature reaction to learning of the body, i.e., they wanted to find it to become heroes in a small town. No real thought to who the kid was, why he was dead, what his parents were going through, etc. As they MATURED through the joourney to find the body, when they finally DID see it, they realized (in a much more mature way) this was nothing to be a hero over. Make sure the kid gets found, ease his family's suffering, and so forth.
Option #2: The body in the story is "Mortality". What really mattered in this story was the changes the four boys go through during the journey to see the body. The train, the leeches, etc were all horrifying ways of letting the kids know, THEY could be the ones lying beside a train track with rain falling into THEIR open, but unseeing eyes. It made death (well, not death but Death) all too real to boys who didn't need to learn this lesson so soon. By the time they actually see the body, they've already come to their own conclusions about Mortality and what it meant for them, so their attitudes toward reporting the body to be heroes changed into just reporting it anonymously.
2006-11-03 05:05:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Stand By Me The Body
2016-12-16 10:13:43 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were kids that had already lost their innocence to crazy and uncaring households. The body symbolized the end of their childhood.
Stand By Me is the best movie ever made!
2006-11-03 03:52:43 · answer #4 · answered by lynnguys 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an end to their innocence. The kids are looking for adventure, and when the find the body, the realize that the body is not a treasure. The body was a real person.
2006-11-03 05:07:23 · answer #5 · answered by Xander 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you read the original story, the body comes back to life and kills the "bad boys" who remained.
In the real movie, it is a goal, like the Holy Grail, but also acts as a metaphor for fellowship, a common bond that binds them all
2006-11-03 05:43:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they look for the dead kidd so they can turn in his body and get rich...it makes the kids realize that that isnt the way to get ridch..so they turn it in a annonymous
2006-11-03 03:47:07 · answer #7 · answered by whayyyaaaawww 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It symbolizes the end of their innocence.
2006-11-03 03:43:16 · answer #8 · answered by billiejoe4me 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2006-11-03 03:57:17 · answer #9 · answered by DM 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋