“This time the other three all had tails and I had heads. And I was suddenly frightened.” This quote represents when all four boys believe about the goocher and think of it as very bad luck.The myth of the goocher could have been a warning to the four to change their paths and get a better destiny. In the book “The body” by Stephen King, shows a myth that represents bad luck. The Goocher is when flipping a coin and getting tails, which represents very bad luck. The myth of the goocher has affected the lives of four very close boyz in a small town. The boys believed so hard in the goocher that they made it become real, they did nothing about it to fix it and change their paths. As time passed on, the three boys started making bad decisions
