We All Fall Down Review Essay, Research Paper

We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier is a complicated book. It takes place in Wickburge and Burnside Massachusetts, some time in the 80 s or 90 s. It is narrated by three different people in first person. One of those people is Jane Jerome, she is a 15 year-old girl who lives in a house that got trashed by four people. Her sister was knocked into a coma by being thrown down a flight of stairs by the trasher Harry Flowers. Another narrator was Mickey Stallings, a.k.a. The Avenger . The Avenger s age is 11 years old but Mickey is 41. This makes no sense to me but when Mickey killed Vaughn Matterson, he became The Avenger. He saw the whole trashing and that’s what started The Avenger thing. After it was over, he said that he would avenge the house. The Avenger has a big role in this book and is my favorite character. The last narrator is Buddy Walker. Buddy is a trasher. He was drunk at the time but was there and didn t stop the trashing from taking place. The three characters all end up having something to do with the trashing, Buddy; who was a trasher, Jane; who was living in the trashed house and Mickey; who was the only witness of the trashing.

Later in the book Buddy and Jane meet. Jane and Buddy both feel that they were the perfect people for each other. They start going out. Buddy feels weird with her sometimes because he knows that she will find out sooner or later about him and his involvement with the trashing. One day, Mickey saw Jane and Buddy together and remembered that Buddy was a trasher. The next day Mickey paid Amos Dalton ten dollars to lead Jane into a shack, so Mickey got her tied up and planed to kill her. He was in rage and explains to her how he saw Buddy and that he killed Vaughn Matterson and how that made him The Avenger. Jane convinced Mickey that it was he who killed his grandfather and that it was he who was in that room, not the 11 year old avenger. This makes him realize that he was doing the killing and he slit his wrists and died.

Buddy found out about the incident with Mickey and Jane, he tried to call her several times but couldn’t reach her. When she finally called, he was excited to hear her voice again. She told him to meet her at her house, and he did so. When she opened the door he knew that it was over, she knew. His efforts to keep the relationship together failed and he walked out of her house with his head hung low. A week or so later the evil Harry Flowers called Jane. He…

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