Worlds of Terrorism: Learning through Young Adult Literature

In Flight #116 is Down! Caroline Cooney uses multiple 3rd somebody narrators to allow readers to be an airline crash victim with life-threatening injuries as well as passengers who go through and try to hold upon but do not survive; to have feeling the thrill of being part of a preserve team; to feel helpless when wanting desperately to help on the other hand not knowing exactly how; and to worry as a family member of a passenger, waiting at an airport to hear a dead-or-alive report from an airline official. Patrick, 17 is an EMT and a junior member of an ambulance team. He "yearned for something unpredictable; something that would ordeal him; something he could swagger about" (7) Heidi, a ninth-grader at a boarding academy is home at the family mansion. She dislikes gymnasium gets Cs and is not confident how to follow her parents' advice to secure involved and be active in something. Daniel, 15 and Tucker 13 are flying to their divorced father's next to the first wedding. Flying home after visiting her grandparents, kindergartner Teddy clasps her cuddly white bear and worries that her parents may not be at the airport to qualified her. Darienne is an impatient woman who does not want to sit through a little girl named Teddy is tip over that the plane left late, becomes irritated by the agency of a whining baby a hardly any rows away, brought a volume on board that she has already read, and felt "baked in her have a title to hostility" (22). Laura, also a junior EMT have feelings she is in love with Patrick, who was in her EMT training class. She too is anxious for action.