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A story of friends who are on their way into adolescence, the movie Stand by Me shows the friends growing up to become an adult in a civilized world. In the present day, Gordie Lachance, a profession writer, reminisces back into the past of his childhood memories and how it leads to the death of his best friend Chris. When the boys are thirteen, Gordie Lachance, Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp and Vern Tessio were very …

…a professional writer, Vern, a construction worker, Teddy, an inmate at a jail and Chris who unfortunately died from a bank robbery. Every summer, they grow more and more together by doing unthinkable things like Teddy trying to dodge a train. Throughout the movie, the viewer can see the boys growing into maturity through symbolism and its significance to the story. Maturity is a part of life and not everyone can reach to that point.