“ The ache of Buddy’s loss was absent. No pain at all, no anger. No odor under the surface either. Just this hole inside of her now, like that black hole in space, and all her emotions, anger, regret. Sorrow, had been pulled into that hole,” (195). This quote is from one of Robert Cormier’s books, it is the aftermath of all that had happened throughout the book. She is left broken and emotionless, a common theme for his endings, but there was a reason for this. This reason was his use of extremes. Throughout four of Robert Cormier's Books, he clearly used extremes to add drama, this unnecessary drama caused his books to end in harsh unpredictable ways. These ‘harsh’ endings are what caused the female from above to become broken and emotionless. …show more content…
“After Trent gets the incorrect confession, his professional life is pretty much destroyed. He’ll never be an interrogator again. This is half of the ending that feels totally and utterly contrived and unrealistic to me,” (Ayvalentine). Cormier uses extremes here to ruin a person's career, any normal humane person would have stopped and realized the mistake. Although the author used depression to make the character make a mistake that could have been avoided.” But if you said you did it, maybe you could do it, maybe you could do something terrible like that. Maybe deep inside in that secret place of yours you really knew that you could do it,” (83). In the process of the interrogation, cormier used extremes to make a murder. This is completely unrealistic and shows how cormier uses extremes to add …show more content…
“ I was barely three and a half, I guess. Anyway, I knew they were discussing me. More than that. As if they were discussing what to do with me,” (12). From the beginning of the book, the author made little things into much more than they needed to be, he made every little thing throughout the book extreme. “There is another name I know about but I can’t think of the name now and anyway I am too busy singing, and I hold Pokey the Pig close to me and I sing because I know, of course, who I am, who I will always be. I am the cheese,” (229). Cormier used extremes to turn a happy loving boy into an unsettling mad