Terrorism is the usage of violence or mass destruction to gain political or religious ends. In the novel After the First Death the author Robert Cormier attempts to shape our response to terrorism. Cormier uses, characters as a tool, to shape the reader’s response towards terrorism. Cormier does this through fully laying out the characters’ emotions, thoughts, beliefs and the usuage of the plot.
Since everybody show some emotion to something, emotions is something every reader can relate to. Robert Cormier uses the emotions of Miro, Kate and the children to shape the readers response towards terrorism. Miro is a young boy who is about to kill his first victim. The reader’s response to this would be a sense of anger because killing is against our values and moral beliefs. Cormier manipulates the reader to feel a certain way about Miro. Cormier explained to the reader, in detail, what happened throughout Miro’s life, and how he grew up. Knowing his circumstances the reader......
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