"The Shawshank Redemption" Autumn Chapter "A Different Autumn - Corpse" by Stephen King
Almost everyone has a childhood friend. They are also one of the most important symbols of our upbringing, remembering that time when we were incredibly innocent.
Some small partners will always accompany us and grow up with us, and some may also scatter around the world, or even disappear into the vast sea of people. But no matter what, as long as you see them and think of them, you can recall the simple and difficult years of making friends. In those days, we didn't bother to make friends make all kinds of assessments, just by liking or being attractive to each other. As long as everyone can play together, they are all partners.
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In the story of "Corpse", the same is true of the four teenagers who are the main characters. Gordon, Currie, Teddy, and Wein, the four 12-year-olds, are the best friends. Although, their family environment, upbringing, and personality preferences are different.
None of the children are rich second generations, and Gordon's dad is retired. Teddy's family had a vacant house on Danberry Street, and his mother would rent it out and subsidize the family with the rent. But that summer, their home's rent advertisement was posted in June, and not a single tenant was available. Wein's father was just a factory worker, and his 1952 Di Soto car was always repaired again and again. Currie's dad was an alcoholic, he was hot-tempered and lazy, doing nothing but buying a drink with a few drunks in town, and without intermittent social welfare payments, the family would have starved to death.
These 4 children have their own misfortunes, and no one seems to think that they will have a bright and beautiful future. They relied on each other in the dark days, comforted each other, and spent a warm time.
For Curry, it is perfectly normal to be beaten by his father, his body is often blue and purple, his eyes are often swollen high, and his face is colorful.
But if it wasn't for one time when he went to school with a bandage, no one knew he was beaten, because as soon as he was beaten, his mother would take sick leave for him, and later the children learned that he took sick leave not because he felt humiliated, but because he was too badly injured to go to school. Almost everyone thinks Currie is going to go bad... In fact, even Currie himself thinks so.
After all, he has two bad brothers that make the whole town spurn, the eldest brother is obviously a navy with a great future, but he committed rape and was imprisoned while serving in the military, and the second brother began to learn badly when he was in the tenth grade, and fooled around with the bad boys in the town.
But Currie wasn't a bad boy, he was smart and sober, always skipping class but getting decent grades.
Teddy was thirteen years old, but he looked much older than he really was, and he was the dumbest of their group of henchmen. He was in a bit of a bad spirit, always taking pleasure in extreme adventures, but every time he was able to retreat. Teddy's favorite "flash car" is to run towards the oncoming car, flash away when it is only a few inches away, and when the driver is scared out of his mind, he laughs heartily on the side.
Gordon often wondered how Teddy did it, because Teddy was highly nearsighted, and even though he wore lenses as thick as a Coke bottle, his vision was blurred. Not only that, but Teddy is also a hearing-impaired child.
His visual impairment was innate, but his hearing impairment was caused by his father.

One day when Teddy was eight years old, his mom went to work in a factory where he and his dad were at home. Because of his poor vision, he broke a plate, and Teddy's dad, furious, grabbed him to the big stove behind the kitchen, grabbed his head and slammed it on the hot stove, and about ten seconds later, grabbed Teddy's hair and pressed his face on the other side of the room again. Although his father called an ambulance later, his ears have since been disabled.
After this incident, his father was diagnosed with post-war traumatic stress disorder and admitted to Tog Veterans Hospital. Despite this, Teddy still has a lot of respect for his father, and every week he goes to see him with his mother, and looks forward to becoming a soldier like his father in the future.
Teddy would practice marksmanship with a cat as a target in his spare time, or light a fire in a mailbox, while Wein liked to play games like pirates. He buried the copper plate at home, and then marked the location of the buried copper plate on the treasure map. But he quickly forgot about the treasure map, and by the time he needed money and dug up the treasure according to the treasure map, his mother had already cleaned up his messy room and burned his treasure map as material for making a fire.
Without the treasure map, Wein racked his brains and couldn't remember where the jar was buried. So he thought of digging, but he never dug. His friends knew that his money must have been stolen by his brother, but Wein didn't believe it.
The 3 children were good friends with Gordon, but Gordon's dad didn't think so, and he often said, "Look at my son's playmate, two idiots and a thief." ”
In fact, Gordon is not used to being so concerned by his father, and his father's words make him very psychologically complicated. Because, his father rarely cared so much about his life, especially when his eldest brother was still alive.
Gordon's parents were very old to have his eldest brother, and it was not easy to have children in middle age, they thought it was their only child, so they gave his brother almost all the favors. Unexpectedly, ten years later, his mother had already given birth to him, one was the eldest son who played the Junior Baseball League in the big children's pile, and the other was a small baby wrapped in a diaper. Emotionally or otherwise, Gordon has left his parents without surprises.
From an early age, Gordon knew that his parents were different from him.
At dinner, the family would always talk, and Mom and Dad would ask their brother, "Danny, how many hits did you hit?" ”
"Danny, who invited you to the Huo family's ball?"
When young Gordon said, "I want cream," Mom and Dad would discuss joining the army with their brother: "Danny, do you really want to join the army?" ”
When Gordon continued to ask for cream, his mom and dad still couldn't see him: "Danny, I'm going into town with your dad, do you need us to bring you a shirt?" ”
When Gordon was nine years old, he suddenly had a whim and wondered if he would be seen by his parents for doing bad things, so he said to his parents and brother, "I fucking want some potatoes." ”
As it turned out, no one saw him.
Gordon didn't know how to describe his situation at home, until he read a novel called "The Invisible Man" in high school and finally understood: It turned out that mom and dad didn't love me, they couldn't see me.
In April, Gordon's brother was killed in a car accident. His parents broke down, and the couple missed their dear son Danny bitterly, saying this every time they called Gordon: "Gordon, bring me Danny's photo album, okay?" Gordon often had the illusion that between him and Danny, the most damning thing was himself.
Such 4 children, they know the biggest pain in each other's hearts, so they hug each other and sow hope and sunshine. And to prove something, or to vent something. They decided to do something.
This matter was decided by everyone together, and the opportunity came from a message that Wicken overheard from his brother. A child named Brower had been out there for several days, but no one had ever found his body. However, Wein's brother and a group of older children accidentally see Brower's body, but they dare not call the police because they are stealing a car.
Wein told everyone about this, and the friends decided to find Brower's body and report it to the police. It's not just the boys' favorite adventure, it's also proof to the adults who don't like them well, they're an unusual bunch of kids.
Speaking of which, the program of this issue is almost the same. We can see that even young children can feel the malice of the original family and living environment. After all, the desire for warmth and sunshine is human instinct. However, some people only have expectations, but they have not been able to take steps towards the light, and some people are unwilling to sink and choose to cut through thorns. Making different choices often leads to people who are originally at the same starting point to embark on a completely different path in life.