The Body, Chapters 1 to 7 Summary

Gordon LaChance is hanging out with his friends, Chris Chambers and Teddy Duchamp, in their treehouse in Castle Rock, Maine, playing cards and reading comics. Teddy's ears are burnt because his father held them to the stove after Teddy broke a plate. His dad is now in a mental hospital for the military. Gordie's brother, Dennis, died a few months earlier. Vern Tessio, one of their other friends, comes and asks if they want to go see a dead body. A boy named Ray Brower has been missing for several days. Vern tells the boys he was digging under his porch, looking for a jar of pennies he had hidden a while ago and lost the map to the body. His brother, Billy, comes out with his friend, Charlie Hogan, talking about the body they found by...