THE BODY CHRISTOPHER CREED

CAROL PLUM-UCCI

• Carol is a young adult novelist and essayist.
• Her most famous novel is The Body of Christopher Creed
• She won the Michael L. Printz award in 2002 for the book.

CHRISTOPHER CREED

CHRISTOPHER CREED

• A known wierdo in Steepleton.
• He goes missing randomly.
• Christopher is lonely.
• Christopher is a dynamic character.

"This weird kid leaves, but the weirdness stays. It starts coming out of everybody else. I felt like Chris’s ghost was in us, trying to speak. Trying to make us feel what he felt, trying to make us understand." (Chapter 11)

VICTOR "TOREY" ADAMS

• Narrator of the story.
• At first a mild interest to find Christopher Creed.
• Then a great desire about the conflict.
• Torey is also a dynamic character.

SYLVIA CREED

• Mother of Christopher Creed
• No emotions, heartless.
• Over reacts too much.
• Static character in the novel.

The Conflict - Christopher Creep disappeared with no tracing evidence. People get worried and wonder if it was their fault for his disappearance.

The Conflict - "I wish to understand life and liberty. But I will never do that confined to this life, the personality defects I've been cursed with, the lack of abilities, the strain. I wish no malice on anyone. I only wish to be gone. Therefore I AM."

The setting is in Steepleton. It's a small town. Woods outside of it. Not much sunlight gets there.

PLOT

Exposition
Torey goes to a new boarding school in Rothborne. Getting away from his home town Steepleton. It was wired there, with all of the Christopher creed things going on. So he starts writing about it on the document Creed.doc.

Rising Action
After Christopher Creed goes missing. Gossip goes around saying, he was murder, he killed himself, he was kidnapped. Torey says Mrs. Creed is behind all of this.

Climax
The meanest gossip goes around the school. Renee accuses Bo and Torey of murdering Creed. He knows that Bo didn't do it. So he wants prove his innocence. He goes to search for the body. He follows an Indian ghost to a burial ground and he accidentally moves a boulder and it crushes his leg. There was a burning body under the boulder where it was.

Falling Action
When he's in the hospital he doesn't eat anything that smells burnt. He won't sleep because he is scared of nightmares. He figured out that the body he found was Bob Haines.

Resolution
Thanks to the eighty emails he sent including Creed.doc. They are maybe on to figuring out the mystery of Christopher
Creed.

Recommendation
I recommend this book to anyone who likes mystery and puzzle stories.

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