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

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