Robert Cormier
Paperback | Pages: 144 pages Rating: 3.42 | 2799 Users | 296 Reviews
List Appertaining To Books Heroes
| Title | : | Heroes |
| Author | : | Robert Cormier |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 144 pages |
| Published | : | February 8th 2000 by Laurel Leaf (first published August 10th 1998) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Historical. Historical Fiction. Academic. School. Fiction. War |
Representaion As Books Heroes
Francis Joseph Cassavant is eighteen. He has just returned home from the Second World War, and he has no face. He does have a gun and a mission: to murder his childhood hero.Francis lost most of his face when he fell on a grenade in France. He received the Silver Star for bravery, but was it really an act of heroism? Now, having survived, he is looking for a man he once admired and respected, a man adored by many people, a man who also received a Silver Star for bravery. A man who destroyed Francis's life
Describe Books Concering Heroes
| Original Title: | Heroes |
| ISBN: | 0440227690 (ISBN13: 9780440227694) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Francis Cassavant, Larry LaSalle, Nicole Renard |
| Literary Awards: | Carnegie Medal Nominee (1998) |
Rating Appertaining To Books Heroes
Ratings: 3.42 From 2799 Users | 296 ReviewsCommentary Appertaining To Books Heroes
I really enjoyed this book by Cormier - The dark theme that runs through the book is quite haunting.The book starts with the protagonist, Francis Cassavant describing his injuries and how his face is disfigured from injuries after returning home from the war. He returns a hero, although he hides his identity as he has mission to enact a plan to the kill the man who only he knows of his evil.The story moves back to before the war when Larry Lasalle arrives in Frenchtown and is loved by everyone.For those of us who have never known war, there's something chilling about the post-war experience of those who have. For all the bullet-dodging action heroes that Hollywood produces and America consumes, we rarely get a taste for the horrors that the scarred veteran must face upon return to the home-front. Even when a movie does try to convey that horror, it remains a visual experience. Robert Cormier's "Heroes" has no such problems. Francis, Cormier's young protagonist, has been marred by war,
CATEGORIES SATISFIED: REQUIRED READING I was surprised how much I enjoyed this book. I was afraid it would be too dark for me, and it was quite dark, but in a way I found touching and meaningful. Francis, the main character, has just returned from war, and during the war he lost most of his face to a grenade. He was awarded a Silver Star for sacrificing himself to protect his comrades, but he doesn't feel like he deserves it. He returns home, but doesn't tell anyone who he is and no one
This is another one of those books which my son brought home from school, apparently it is part of his GCSE English curriculum. I wasn't really looking forward to it and I was thinking it was just going to be a war thiller.Francis has come home from WW2 after suffering a horrendous disfigurement. He has his face covered in bandages and a scarf and goes back to the town where he grew up. Where other war veterans are thinking of ways to get their lives back together, Francis has other things on
I hate itI hate this bookThis book is ruining my lifeI don't want to write essays on these boring characters Just give me an F for English Rn and don't make me sit this exam *super stressed crying*
"It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks."Heroes is a teen novel and is a story of Francis Joseph Cassavant, who at the age of eighteen has been horribly disfigured when he lost most of his face jumping on a grenade in France during WWII to save some of his fellow comrades. After a long rehabilitation in England he returns home to Frenchtown in Monument a hero, a recipient of a Silver Star for bravery, but also a man with a mission, to kill his own childhood hero, Larry
This was not as relentlessly dark and depressing as Dr Crowe sold it as, which is funny, but also I can't figure out what makes me think of it as 'not that dark,' I mean, it's all about murder and war and such. Maybe I'm just desensitized. I mean, I just read Romeo and Juliet, so the line between 'contains a lot of suicide' and 'is dark' is pretty conflicted (R&J is not a dark or depressing story and you can fight me on this at a later date if you disagree). Anyway, there were definitely
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