Heroes – Book Review
Heroes is set after the end of the Second World War and is about a young veteran soldier, Francis Cassavant’s mission. After the war he returns to him hometown, with his face completely destroyed- his nose, eyebrows and teeth gone from jumping on a grenade to save his platoon. We learn that Francis returns to his hometown to carry out revenge on a man, Larry LaSalle, for hurting the girl he was in love with, Nicole Renard. Most of the story is told by Francis’s flashbacks, remembering his childhood days; how he met and fell in love with Nicole, how Larry LaSalle made all the children’s lives better by opening the ‘Wreck Centre’ and making each of them feel special.
The writer opens the story effectively, grabbing the reader’s attention from the first sentence. The story is written in Francis’ point of view, and he uses a very nonchalant tone when talking about all the horrible things that have happened to him – ‘and I have no face’. This makes the reader want to carry on reading the story because they’ll want to find out why Francis has no face.
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Personally, I found the ending the best part of the story because the writer didn’t make it clear what Francis would do, which left me wondering for days.
The themes covered by the writer are: heroism, war, innocence/end of childhood, love and forgiveness. There are two main themes to the novel – heroism and forgiveness. The theme of forgiveness made me alter my views and think more deeply because I learned that you should always forgive both yourself and others because if you don’t, it will mess with your sanity and destroy