In The Middle of the Night
“The sin of a father is visited upon the son.” Robert Cormier entangles accidents, death, life, and revenge in the novel In The Middle of the Night. In The Middle of the Night is about a sixteen-year-old boy named Denny whose parents didn’t allow him to answer the phone. Twenty-five years earlier Denny’s father, Jean Paul, was in accident at the Globe Theater that killed twenty-two children on Halloween. Many people blame Jean Paul for the accident the Globe Theater. Now every year around the time of the accident someone calls in the middle of the night, to talk to Jean Paul. Because of this mystery caller Denny is not allowed to answer the phone. But, one day Denny can’t take it anymore; he picks up the phone and talks to the mystery person, Lulu, a victim of the accident. In The Middle of the Night shows how Denny starts a dangerous, yet intriguing, relationship with Lulu over the phone. Something his parents had shielded him from for so long. Two main characters of In The Middle of the Night are Denny and Lulu. Lulu was a victim of the tragic accident that happened twenty-five years at the Globe Theater. She was eleven at the time and was attending the magic show with her younger brother, Dave, and some frie
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Approximate Word count = 1286
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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