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He went home that night and wrote a short story which she read the next day. She kept it and sent it to a magazine without telling him. Six weeks later, she handed him a check for seventy-five dollars and told him that his story was going to be published.
Robert Cormier has an interesting style of writing where most of his books have the themes of violence, revenge, betrayal, abuse and conspiracy. You could say that Robert Cormier is different because in his the protagonists almost never win. In one of his more popular books "I Am the Cheese", the main character, Adam, realizes that he is alone in the world at the end of the book when most books might have started with him thinking that he is and at the end of the book realize that he is not. Also, in "The Chocolate War" the main character, Jerry, ends with physical injuries and no hope for the future.
When Cormier was a freshman at Fitchburg State College, a teacher read one of his compositions and encouraged him to write another. He went home that night and wrote a short story which she read the next day. She kept it and sent it to a magazine without telling him. Six weeks later, she handed him a check for seventy-five dollars and told him that his story was going to be published.