The treehouse scene is where younger Gordie and friends establish the backstory with death and disappearance of a local boy. A diegetic element that lead the main characters is that of adolescent boy’s fascination with the macabre, as they discuss an occurrence of death. When the main characters decide to take on the trek to find this young boy who has disappeared; a bilateral movement is started with the main characters’ and the hooligans’ timeline jumping from one to the other as the climax closes in. This setup allows the audience to feel the emotions of the characters’ in the coming events during the journey. The discovery of the dead boy’s body has closed the narrative of all of these events on young Gordie and company’s fascination with the mystery of death. This leads to a loss of appeal and their fractured friendships which is mentioned by old Gordie in his closing
The treehouse scene is where younger Gordie and friends establish the backstory with death and disappearance of a local boy. A diegetic element that lead the main characters is that of adolescent boy’s fascination with the macabre, as they discuss an occurrence of death. When the main characters decide to take on the trek to find this young boy who has disappeared; a bilateral movement is started with the main characters’ and the hooligans’ timeline jumping from one to the other as the climax closes in. This setup allows the audience to feel the emotions of the characters’ in the coming events during the journey. The discovery of the dead boy’s body has closed the narrative of all of these events on young Gordie and company’s fascination with the mystery of death. This leads to a loss of appeal and their fractured friendships which is mentioned by old Gordie in his closing