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The Bumblebee Flies Anyway by Robert Cormier | |
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About 156 pages (46,860 words) in 11 products |
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Robert Cormier | | Birth Date: |
17 January 1925 |
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 Biography of Robert (Edmund) Cormier
15425 words, approx. 51.4 pages
 [This entry was updated by Sylvia Patterson Iskander (University of Southwestern Louisiana) from her entry in the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, volume 6, pp. 34-51.] "Teen-agers' Laureate," the title conferred upon Robert Cormier by... summary from source:
 Biography of Robert Cormier
11878 words, approx. 39.6 pages
"Teen-agers' Laureate," the title conferred upon Robert Cormier by Tony Schwartz in Newsweek (16 July 1979), is fittingly bestowed upon this widely read and critically acclaimed author in the relatively new and somewhat amorphous genre referred to as you... summary from source:
 Biography of Robert Cormier
6044 words, approx. 20.1 pages
Robert Cormier began his life in the French-Canadian section of Leominster, Massachusetts on January 17, 1925. "We lived in a three-story tenement. I remember my mother and father heating up the water so we could take baths. I had a great childhood, surr...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Bumblebee Flies Anyway Information
599 words, approx. 2 pages
 The Bumblebee Flies Anyway is a 1999 film starring Elijah Wood, directed by Martin Duffy. It was based on a novel by the same name written by Robert...
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 Variety THE BUMBLEBEE FLIES ANYWAY.(Review) (movie reviews)
09/27/1999: 310 words, approx. 1 pages (DRAMA) A Shooting Gallery/Haft Entertainment presentation in association with Joseph J DiMartino. (International sales: the Shooting Gallery Intl., Los Angeles) Produced by Steven Haft, Larry Meistrich, Jonathan Starch. Executive producers, Keith Abell, Steve Carlis, Daniel J. Victor. Directed by Martin Duffy. Screenplay,...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland
318 words, approx. 1 pages
In [The Bumblebee Flies Anyway], a story that is as trenchant as it is poignant, Cormier shows the courage and desperation of adolescents who know that their deaths are imminent. Barney, sixteen, is the only patient who is in the experimental hospital who is not in the group of the doomed but is there as a control: all of them are there voluntarily, some to contribute to research and some, like Mazzo, hoping for a quick death…. Barney thinks of a plan that will give Mazzo the quick, daring death he w... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Hazel Rochman
133 words, approx. 0 pages
With the grimmest of subjects Cormier has written his most affirmative novel [The Bumblebee Flies Anyway]…. The book has some serious flaws, notably in the depiction of Cassie, who we are told is "vibrant and compelling," but who remains an abstraction. But this is a fine novel, even better on rereading, with a startling poetry in the simplest phrases. Young adults will be caught up in the terrifying thriller, the scientific facts about memory, the controversial issue of medical ethics.... summary from source:
Critical Essay by W. Geiger Ellis
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What's a person to say? He's done it again. Cormier is Cormier. [The Bumblebee Flies Anyway] is consistent with his other successes by focusing on the struggle between individuals and an institution. Institutions are dehumanizing, but humans do not succumb easily—or necessarily. While the larger theme is unchanged, he has forced us to think in yet another arena, for the battle we see here involves the medical establishment. Yet it would be a disservice to suggest that Bumblebee is an ex...
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