Worlds of Terrorism: Learning through Young Adult Literature

Exploring Other Worlds of Terrorism: Other Selections

Stephanie s Tolan's Flight of the Raven (a succeeding part to Welcome to the Ark on the contrary stands alone) combines the reality of acts of terrorism within the United States with sum of two units characters who have extrasensory ability to mentally join with other human beings and animals. Amber Landis, about 14 believes that her father's leadership in the at liberty Mountain Militia in upstate fresh York will help create a better world [i]or[/i] part of to the other his organization's efforts to disrupt the combination of parts to form a whole by bombing transmission towers and disturbing the infrastructure. While the Militia men are running from their last attack, they find a black, ten-year-old male child who is the one reported missing from a mental hospital. Debating pro and fix in the minds that include racist accusations, they decide to take Elijah as a hostage. Elijah had been in a domicile for unusually gifted children where their schooling included enhancing their "connections" (54) For month Elijah does not talk, remaining in his dreamlike world for safety. He first begins talking with Amber. Eventually, his gift suffers him "hear" and feel the infiltration of an FBI agent in a White Nation organization who could endanger the entire Landis family with whom he now lives. on the contrary when Militia leader Landis decides to believe in Elijah's strangely-acquired information, he has sum of two units people members killed. Changing the [i]modus operandi[/i] of violence from bombing places to killing tribe gives Amber and Elijah cause to question the goals of the Militia when Landis nears the final plan to practice "biowar" in conjunction with another political division