SuitabookFlight 116 is down
Caroline B. Cooney
- Reading
- Check in before reading about the plane-crash premise and severe injuries. Pause after particularly graphic or emotionally intense sections, then discuss how the shifting viewpoints affect your response to the rescue.
- Themes
- Finding capability under pressure: Heidi begins with low confidence and becomes involved in decisions affecting injured passengers; the emergency also gives Patrick a chance to act as an emergency medical technician. The book presents this favourably.
- Rescue, survival and suffering: The novel follows a plane-crash rescue involving injured passengers, deaths, severe wounds and uncertainty about who will survive. The book presents competing or mixed signals about this.
- Different lives meeting in crisis: Heidi comes from an insulated, wealthy family setting, while Patrick is from a working family and volunteers as an emergency worker; other survivors are followed from separate perspectives. The book presents this mainly as information or explanation.
- Worth knowing
- One mild expletive is also noted.