SuitabookFly Boy
Eric Walters
- Reading
- Read together if helpful, pausing after the training and mission sections to check how the changing demands of Robbie’s role are landing with your reader.
- Themes
- Ambition and wartime duty: Robbie joins hoping to follow his father as a pilot, but is assigned as a navigator and sent on bombing missions. Robbie’s personal ambition is set against the role commanders give him, creating a tension between what he wants and the demands of wartime service.
- Worth knowing
- Wartime danger is central: the crew undertakes bombing missions, and enemy fire leaves the pilot and several crew members shot.