Letter from Robert Cormier to Ms. Mahoney 28 December 1986
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Cormier thanks a teacher for her support and sharing her students' positive responses to his work. He describes how young people are underestimated by adults.
Letter from Robert Cormier to Gloria 26 January 1987
Description
Cormier summarizes a number of censorship attacks on his books in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Florida. He also mentions how he responds to censorship attempts of his work.
Letter from Robert Cormier to Deborah Fones 14 December 1986
Description
This incomplete document includes Cormier's explanation for why a writer cannot consider a reader's response while writing because it risks producing bland work.
Cormier discusses his feelings of helplessness in censorship battles. He also expresses his admiration for the teachers and librarians who support his writing and share it with young readers.
Cormier describes how the source of fear is not in monsters on the screen or in books but those in our minds. He also describes a mother reading his novels along with her eighth-grade son.
Robert Cormier provides four bulleted points on his thoughts on censorship. These are frequently included in his letters to fans and objectors who write to him on censorship. He later added a fifth point addressing his distaste for defending his books and praise for teachers and librarians who are at the front lines of censorship battles.
]]>https://cormiercensorship.omeka.net/items/show/33The Chocolate War with his 15-year-old daughter to test Fabio Coen's idea that the excised chapter is unnecessary to the story. He then expresses his thanks for his network of supporters and family.]]>2020-01-02T14:35:00-05:00
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Autobiographical sketch draft
Description
This draft describes how Cormier shared a draft of The Chocolate War with his 15-year-old daughter to test Fabio Coen's idea that the excised chapter is unnecessary to the story. He then expresses his thanks for his network of supporters and family.
]]>https://cormiercensorship.omeka.net/items/show/32I Am the Cheese. The idea of protecting children through censorship and precautionary censorship makes up a large portion of the letter.]]>2020-01-02T23:46:09-05:00
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Letter from Robert Cormier to Art 17 January 1987
Description
Cormier responds to Art's concerns about the Salem censorship battle by describing the Panama City censorship of I Am the Cheese. The idea of protecting children through censorship and precautionary censorship makes up a large portion of the letter.
]]>https://cormiercensorship.omeka.net/items/show/31The Chocolate War aims to address readers' questions. Cormier later discusses the dangers of precautionary self-censorship writers participate in to be published.]]>2020-01-02T21:16:53-05:00
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Letter from Robert Cormier to Annie, Safa, et al. 25 February 1987
Description
Robert Cormier writes to a class about how a character's development follows inevitable paths. He also addresses how the sequel to The Chocolate War aims to address readers' questions. Cormier later discusses the dangers of precautionary self-censorship writers participate in to be published.
Letter from Robert Cormier to Ann Brndiar 26 October 1996
Subject
Robert Cormier explains what factors may help a young student be more prepared to read The Chocolate War. He discusses the praise students have for the book and the objections parents find in his work.
Bauer discusses how morality is not a useful criterion to judge literature before going on to interpret the misunderstandings censors have of children's minds. She also explores how censorship directed at children may differ from that of adults.