There is a lot of violence that takes place in the novel We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier that would mostly likely make parents worry about its appropriateness for young readers. In the novel a group of boys trash the house of innocent people and in evidently ends putting a nice, young girl in coma. Though the book does not glorify the violence done by the boys, and the author perfectly shows one of the boys experiencing a large dose of guilt over his action. It might have been how the young boy deals with his guilt that turned parents away from the novel. The underage boy uses alcohol to cope with his guilt and the author describing him drinking several times in the novel. Also the book has a main character known as the Avenger who pursues