Robert Cormier‚ Behind the Pages Throughout history‚ great people have accomplished greatness. Robert Edmund Cormier is one of those people. For over two decades Cormier has been‚ and continues to be‚ one of the most controversial and widely read authors of young adult novels. (Ed. Deborah J) Robert Cormier’s novel are well known for the conflicts between light and darkness‚ and what is right from what is wrong. Robert Cormier was born on January 17‚ 1925‚ in the French-Canadian part of the
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KS4 Reading - Prose HEROES (ROBERT CORMIER) Heroes (Robert Cormier) Teaching Resources includes a 127 slide PowerPoint‚ 35 worksheets and a scheme of work overview. Heroes (Robert Cormier) is a detailed unit of work featuring a series of 15 lessons designed to develop pupil knowledge and understanding of the novel Heroes by Robert Cormier at GCSE. Our Heroes teaching resource includes a range of activities for pupils of all abilities: -A brief biography of Robert Cormier and the historical context
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“In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad” by Marian Wright Edelman. This quote is related to both of these novels but is shown in different ways. In the short story “The Moustache” by Robert Cormier the main character‚ Mike‚ has recently grown a moustache and liked how it looked on him‚ but it was affecting him in various ways shown in the text. He had to go visit his grandmother in her nursing home because he hadn’t visited her since she moved in. When he got there he was surprised
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Appearances can be deceptive. How does Cormier assert this view in his novel? ‘Heroes’ by Robert Cormier presents the view that appearances can be deceptive‚ asserting that how an individual may appear does not reflect his or her raw nature. Cormier explores this view by developing multiple characters and their outer personas through the slow deliberate unveiling of their true nature. Cormier develops his characters Francis Cassavant‚ Larry LaSalle and Nicole Renard to portray this duality. The
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Mustaches can be that manily look you were always wishing for‚ but did you know it could also turn you into somebody else? Neither did a teenage boy named Mike‚ until he saw his grandmother at the hospital one day. The Mustache is a story written by Robert Cormier and is about a teenager named Mike who had a cool looking mustache that apparently gave him the grandma’s husband look. Little did Mike know that his mustache would be his grandmothers way out of having a burden. Mike’s grandmother has alzhelmers
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Francis the Anti-Hero Francis in the novel “Heroes” by Robert Cormier demonstrates he is not a hero through his decisions and actions. Francis is not a hero because he did not help Nicole in the time of need. This is non-heroic because he had a good idea of what was happening to Nicole. He didn’t act upon because he was too scared to react. A hero in this situation would have done something that have helped Nicole and stopped Larry. For iInstance‚ when he was outside the wreck center he said
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they read‚ even if that is not the concept Cormier’s intended to present. Acting as an umbrella term‚ “heroes” represents the many values associated with heroism‚ repeated throughout the novel. Some may see it as an overbearing‚ forced title that Cormier uses to make heroism into the main focus‚ because he failed to do so in the novel. However‚ I believe that the plethora of themes investigated‚ particularly contrasts of love-hate‚ guilt-forgiveness‚ appearances-reality and fear-bravery‚ are brought
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The mustache Several themes are used in the text “the mustache” by Robert Cormier‚ one of them is Love‚ which is a kind of cliché‚ but it’s is a different kind of love‚ because the grandmother “Nana” has this intense love which she gives to her grandson because she thinks it’s her deceased husband. The reason why she thinks it is her grandson Michael‚ who is named by his grandfather‚ is because he looks like him‚ wearing a Mustache being tall and slim‚ so she mixes them up. The grand mom is 75 years
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“Doing The Right Thing” In the story‚ “The Moustache‚” by Robert Cormier‚ a boy named Mike had a moustache. Although many did not approve nor like the moustache he really liked and wanted to keep it. Until one day he visited his elderly grandma at a nursing home and saw how she couldn’t quite remember him‚ things changed. She did have a memory issue and while she slightly remembered the boy as her grandson she absentmindedly referred to him as her husband‚ Mike. She then went on to tell
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In the book‚ All Fall Down by Ally Carter‚ Grace‚ a sixteen-year-old girl‚ had just jumped off a cliff into the ocean in order to retrieve a scarf with the Israeli flag on it that got stuck on the flagpole of the old Iran embassy. After taking a plunge into the cool‚ dark water Grace swam to the beach and headed toward the Iran embassy. Once Grace had passed the no trespassing sign and climbed under the wooden fence‚ she could finally see the whole house. At the top of the four story embassy was
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