Explore 2 episodes in the novel ‘Heroes’ which you find most dramatic :: English Literature

Explore 2 episodes in the novel ‘Heroes’ which you find most dramatic and interesting. The novel Heroes was written by a great popular author called Robert Cormier as it shotrlisted for The Carnegie Medal in 1999. Robert Cormier started his career as a journalist as it wasn’t shortly after he had published his first work of fiction when he was only 20 years of age. He was a controversial author who regarded glossing over the harsh realities of life, however disturbing as a betrayed of his youth readers. He lived in New England, USA and died in year 2000. This novel shows the realties of war and what sort of damage and injuries you could receive when you join the war. This novel has three main characters called Francis Joseph Cassavant, Larry LaSalle and Nicole Renard. From the title of this novel ‘Heroes’ it instantaneously makes the reader think that this book will be about someone who is brave as he would help others. Robert Cormier has fantastically tried to build the major features of the novel with terrible, tragic and romantic events. Francis Cassavant was only six years old when his mother died as he was then brought up by his uncle in Frenchtown. When he was young he studied grade 7 as he then met a new comer in town called Nicole Renard and fell in love with her. He soon became friends with her as they then got closer to each other. Francis was then living in a romantic dream world with Nicole but it soon changed as Larry LaSalle stepped in town. As the novel starts we come across Francis Cassavant telling the reader his terrible facial injuries that he has received during the war. We know this because in the book at chapter one in the starting it says ‘’my name is Francis Joseph Cassavant and I have just returned to Frenchtown in Monument and the war is over and I have no face’’. The author included this right at the beginning of the novel to show that this incident has already happened as in past and the author also included this to show what remains Francis has got after the war and what terrible injuries people can suffer in a war. From this sentence at the start it makes the reader straight away think that Francis had suffered terrible injures to his face during the war as he doesn’t have much left of his face. The two Incidents that happened in the novel that I think revealed a lot about Larry LaSalle and where the most dramatic and interesting are when Larry LaSalle decides to join the war as he wants the