erstand the finality of death.Realism is an effective way to write and capture the reader. Robert Cormier used this throughout almost all of his novels. Cormier choose topics that people in the every day life are effected with, such as: parental divorce, teen drinking, and death among friends and family members. Robert Cormier uses these types of negative events to remind the reader he or she lives not in a fairy tale but rather a harsh society. ...