Robert Cormier's draft response to Hugh Agee
<p>In this drafted letter, Robert Cormier responds to Agee's correspondence. He opens by sharing how impressed he is with the students' insights and interpretations. In a section that is largely penciled out and re-written, Cormier shares his disappointment in the portrayal of the general - how he wished he had been better able to maintain more ambiguity until the end of the piece. He continues by mentioning that he had not anticipated such close analysis, but instead, hoped readers would be moved emotionally.</p>
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Robert Cormier Collection at Fitchburg State University's Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library
Elise Takehana, Anna Consalvo, Katy Covino
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/111" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hugh Agee's letter to Robert Cormier</a></p>
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Robert Cormier's letter to Jason Campbell
This May 7, 2000, one-page letter by Robert Cormier to Jason Campbell at the American School in Dubai, appears to address questions about where he gets his ideas for writing. Referenced are <em>Tunes for Bears to Dance To</em> and <em>Tenderness</em>. For <em>Tunes</em>, Cormier says he worried about publicly displayed sculptures and at the same time, Holocaust deniers were in the news. The ideas merged in his head, driven by his own strong emotions. Regarding <em>Tenderness</em>, he talked about a now-changed law that released juvenile offenders at 18 despite the severity of their crimes. He reiterated that emotions "send me to the typewriter."
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7 May 2000
Elise Takehana, Anna Consalvo
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Robert Cormier's response to Brooke Hausman and Carly Meltzer
In this one-page typed letter dated April 14, 1998, from Robert Cormier to Brooke Hausman and Carly Meltzer, he shares his writing technique of "gradual release," that it takes him 1.5 to 2 years to write a book, and that emotions are the engine for him. He advises here that would-be writers must "read, read, read" and write daily because "practice makes perfect." He says that he thinks he has received a lot of correspondence from students at their school, but "evidently" had misplaced it. He asked the girls to convey his best to classmates and that he would reply when the letters turn up.
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14 April 1998
Elise Takehana, Anna Consalvo
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Ryan Dvorak's letter to Robert Cormier
Ryan Dvorak, an eighth-grade student in Alabama, wrote to Robert Cormier on 15 April 2000. In his letter, he shares that Cormier's books move him and were the cause of his becoming a more avid reader because of the emotional pull of the books' portrayal of real-life kinds of events. He asks thematic questions. One was "were you bullied as a child?" and ties this question to several characters across Cormier's novels. He explains that his teacher had dinner with Cormier at a conference, which is how he got a hold of his address. This respective and appreciative letter asks for information for an author's project.
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Robert Cormier Collection at Fitchburg State University's Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library
15 April 2000
Elise Takehana, Anna Consalvo
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/67" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jonathan Osborne's letter to Robert Cormier</a></p>
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/141" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Daniel Lowe's letter to Robert Cormier 20 April 2000</a></p>
<p><a href="https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/items/show/69" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Robert Cormier's response to Daniel Lowe, Jonathan Osborne, and Ryan Dvorak</a></p>
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