Fade Literary Qualities

Fade Literary Qualities

Cormier has always been highly praised for the literary quality and style of his novels. The fast pace and suspense make them difficult for the reader to put down. Cormier uses structural devices to create suspense; for example, by dividing Fade into five parts, and by changing narrators, he delays the reader's understanding of the outcome and forces the reader to search for clues and connections between the parts. Also the many real dangers which the characters encounter, as well as the problems associated with the power to fade, create suspense.

To describe the world he has created, Cormier writes in a style particularly noteworthy for its similes and metaphors, its vivid verbs, its conciseness, and its variety of sentence structure; the following description of the Rub Room is but one of many examples: You opened the door of the Rub Room at the comb shop and a...
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