In The Middle of the Night

“The sin of a father is visited upon the son.” Robert Cormier entangles accidents, death, life, and revenge in the novel In The Middle of the Night. In The Middle of the Night is about a sixteen-year-old boy named Denny whose parents didn’t allow him to answer the phone. Twenty-five years earlier Denny’s father, Jean Paul, was in accident at the Globe Theater that killed twenty-two children on Halloween. Many people blame Jean …

…for a break, but that made the book more confusing then it already was. Once you got into it, it turned out to be an okay book. I would recommend it for other people to read. But, they might have a hard time reading it. In The Middle of the Night by Robert Cormier is a very intriguing book and it dealt with a lot of different subjects. Nevertheless, it turned out to be enjoyable.