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The Body of Christopher Creed

Carol Plum-Ucci

Victor "Torey" Adams

A senior at the fictional Rothborne a boarding school

The narrator of the novel

Torey is conflicted throughout the book between his friends and those who want to help find Chris.

Torey is described as “just your basic guy”

Mrs. Adams

A lawyer-mom who takes the Christopher Creed case into her own hands when her son Torey is involved

Bo Richardson

A tough rebel from the boondocks

Has "a good guy streak that [is] just as wide, probably wider, than his bad guy streak.”

Christopher "Chris" Creed

The “weird guy” from Steepleton

turns up missing

Sylvia Creed

Chris Creed's mother

Accuses Bo of murdering her son

Mr. Creed

Father of Chris Creed

Husband of Mrs. Creed

Alex Arrington

Torey's best friend

Plays football

In a band with Torey

Leandra

Torey's girlfriend. Cute, cheerleader.

She goes to the “Pentecostal church every Sunday,” but by “Monday [she is] calling people ‘dirtbag’.

Leo

A senior who goes to school with Torey and doesn’t care about privacy or personal space

He is “just a little sideways”

Carthright

A senior and prankster who is Torey Adams’ roommate.

He only knows “bits and pieces” of Torey’s story about Chris

Characters

Plot Summary

A framed story is when the first and last chapter are in the present and the chapters in the middle are in the past.

Chapters 1 and 23 are in the present when Torey is attending Rothborne boarding school as a senior. He is living in a dormatory.

Chapters 2-22 are in the past when Torey is attending a high school in Steepleton and living at home.

Framed Story

Present

Torey moves to a new town to Rothborne boarding school and begins his senior year.

As he starts thinking about how his year will be, he remembers how strange his junior year was, in particular, his former classmate Christopher Creed, who disappeared without a trace, except an email to the principal.

The only clue!

Past

Torey, with friends, reads the email from Chris. It hints at both suicide and running away.

The email also mentions Torey and one of his friends, among other classmates, as guys who have "everything"

This makes Torey more concerned about Creed's disappearance and what has become of him.

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