The Body of Christopher Creed Analysis

Steepleton might be made up, but it is just like many other small towns across the United States in that it's inhabitants are primarily white, Christian, and upper-crust (read: plenty of money). As...

The Body of Christopher Creed is written in the first person, but Christopher Creed—the dude in the title—isn't our narrator. That's kind of unusual, right? We think so anyway. The narrator ins...

Not to blow your minds or anything, Shmoopers, but nine times out of ten when there's a mystery at the center of a book's plot, the book falls into the mystery genre. Go figure, right? And since th...

Given that this book is, on its most fundamental level, about Torey's shift from self-absorbed popular dude to thoughtful and totally righteous ally to all misfits great and small, it makes sense t...

With the exception of the first and last chapters, which are written in the present, the entire book is a flashback told through Torey's Creed.doc, which is the document containing his entire story...

Have you ever heard the phrase body of Christ? It comes up in Christianity from time to time (okay, if you're Catholic, it comes up all the time, since it's a key component of Holy Communion), and...

By the time the book ends, we are beyond ready to know what exactly has happened to the body of Chris Creed. Like, we've been wondering since we read the title. Fortunately for us, this isn't one o...

The trickiest thing about reading this book is probably the slang—depending on where you live, terms like miffed and the nasty may or may not be part of your vernacular. Other than that, though,...

Cross YourselfIn a new boarding school called Rothborne, Torey Adams gets used to life away from his small hometown, Steepleton, and all the weird stuff that happened to him there the previous year...

Carol Plum-Ucci was raised in a funeral home in New Jersey. (Source.) Before becoming a published novelist, Plum-Ucci worked for the Miss America Organization, but she wasn't a model. She was a wr...

So that PG-13 rating is mostly because sex is talked about a lot, though we don't see it happen. Sex is often called "the nasty" and Ali McDermott is called a "turbo slut" on many an occasion, but...

The Body of Christopher Creed is basically one giant shout-out to Christianity, though not in terms of coming out for or against the religion. Instead the book just borrows heavily from the Christi...