we all fall down

Robert Cormier writes pessimistic novels shown in the novel “We All Fall Down” where it deals with pessimistic themes. The definition of “pessimistic” is “emphasising the negative aspects of a situation, expecting unpleasant endings”. The arguments that could be put forth to prove the novel deals with pessimistic themes is the Alcoholism, Power and Peer Group, the character Buddy Walker’s Love for Jane Jerome and the language where it was written in a police style report.

The theme Alcoholism that is dealt with by Buddy Walker in his escape from reality through the family problems he has been having and the trashing. Buddy uses the booze as a way of avoiding the problems he will face. This is seen when his family started having problems the to the divorce of his parents, buddy takes on drinking as a way of “provided the escape “ he needed from the situation he was in. after the trashing, buddy feels that the damages he had caused was devastating and drinks to his g...