Plot
The movie, Stand By Me, is based in 1959. Stand by me is about four boys that go on an adventure. The main characters are Gordie Lachance (the narrator), Christopher Chambers, Teddy Duchamp, and Vern Tessio. The boys are around the age of twelve. They are all misfits due to a personal struggle. Gordie tells the story of each character to get the audience to sympathize. Vern Tessio is under his porch when he hears his brother talk about finding a dead body. Gordie and his friends had been following the story of the dead boy's body because the kid was there age, and also lived near them. When Vern heard of the finding, he ran to his friends' clubhouse to tell them. The clubhouse is where the boys talked, smoked, played cards, and told jokes. After hearing Vern talk about the body the boys made a decision to go find it themselves. The movie shows many obstacles the boy have to face in order to get to the dead body.
Point of View
The story is by Gordie in first person. He is a 12 year old boy when the story occurs, but is telling the story as the 30 year old man that he has become. As an adult he has become a writer which shows the audience his view from then and now. At the end of the movie Gordie talks about his personal experience as the boy's grow older, and apart.
Characterization
The characters are around the age of 12. The main character is Gordan Lachance. As an audience, the characters are revealed by childhood memories, things that happened to them that makes an audience connect and sympathize. The rest of the boys are Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp, and Vern Tessio. Each boy has a story and is unique in his own way. Another character that is important, even though he is dead, is Ray Bowner. Ray is important because of his death the boys are brought together on an adventure. My favorite character in the movie is Chris. He is a sincere, loving, and caring person towards his friends. He puts his friends' needs before his own, and wants what is best for them.
Setting
Stand by me is based in 1959 in small town in Oregon. The places the boys travel to are always changing. They are in their tree house when they learn about the whereabouts of the dead boy's body. They're mission, to find the body, took them through the woods. Their adventure is told in the woods along the railroad tracks, around campfires, and by the river.
Theme
The theme in the movie is of overcoming an obstacle to complete a goal, with friends by your side. The plot of Stand By Me has each boy face an obstacle that is hard to accomplish. Due to some of the instances the boys have to overcome, they almost lose their lives. With the help of each other they overcome their fears, problems, and hardships.
