Worlds of Terrorism: Learning through Young Adult Literature

Three works of Caroline Cooney are especially useful for readers to vicariously experience what it might be like to be in an airplane crash or part of a rescue team responding to such a catastrophe, to have a family member killed by a terrorists' bomb, or to be threatened with potential biological "warfare" and be kidnapped. According to Pamela Sissi Carroll in Caroline Cooney: Faith and Fiction, this speaks to her broad range and talent as a writer.) In Flight #116 is Down! Because each character is introduced through a chapter section headed by a specific time, such as 5:05 P.M. and 5:10 P.M., readers simultaneously know where each person is located on the ground, who is in the airplane and who is waiting at the airport as the printed times raise the tension toward an imminent crash that will occur at 5:41 P.M. (given away on the back cover). Opening the envelope, he handles the scabs and they crumble, causing him to sneeze. Because this happens on page 11, readers feel anxious during the remainder of the book as Mitty researches to find out what "VM" means, whether or not he will contact a contagious disease, and finally whether or not he could infect and kill everyone in New York City.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Hauschildt, Patricia M.

Đề mục:

Young adult literature

Nhà xuất bản:

Assembly on Literature for Adolescents -- National Council of Teachers of English

Ngày xuất bản:

Summer 2006

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Nguồn gốc:

ALAN Review; Youngstown, Volume 33, Issue 3, Summer 2006, Pages 18-25

Liên kết:

ISSN 0882-2840

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