Analyzing the Impact of Setting

The book, Airport, the airport that the most of the action takes place is Lincoln International Airport.  It is a fictional airport in Chicago, Illinois that is supposed to mimick Chicago O'Hare International Airport.  The weather conditions are terrible.  The winds are gusting over 50 mph crosswind and the snow makes the visiblity less than a mile.  The wind is highlighted with the closure of Runway 30.  Runway 30 is the longest runway at the airport and the only runway that goes into the wind on this particular night.  The airport must use an interescting runway, 25.  There is also a Boeing 707 stuck in the mud right off of Runway 30.  All I have just said was written by the author very descriptively.  I could picture the airport and the surrounding area. 

There is a Trans America flight 2 to Rome that was delayed by weather.  On board was an important stowaway, Ada Quonsett, who would prove critical in the moments before the bombing.  The suicide bomber, D.O. Guerro was sitting next to her.  As most people expect, the bomb did go off in the lavartory, not killing anyone but D.O.  It critically injures a flight attendant that was trying to confiscate the bomb.  At the airport, the airport crew got the stuck B707 out of the mud that was adjacent to Runway 30.  The weather conditions are the worst for an emergeny landing with a broken fuselage.  It is suspensful because you do not know what is going to happen.  The plane could break up in mid air, crash upon landing, land perfectly or what.  Your heart will race and your muscles will get tense when you get to here.

How did your book's setting affect the plot?

An explosive decompression similar to the book.

What I Plan to Read Next

I plan to read whatever unit we will be on in the Mason High School class, Best Sellers or read another aviation related book.  Aviation really interests me more than anything else.  I can easily connect to the book and the characters.  That is what I love about the books I have been choosing this year.  On another note, I have heard about this movie that came out.  Lone Survivor just came out yesterday, 1/10/14, and I looked it up and it was a book.  There was so much hype about it on Facebook and by Mr. Whitney.  He was talking about how good the book was and how he wanted to be in the military.  He said he was emotional and how teamwork was a huge thing in the military.  That made me look into the book on Amazon and read the reviews.  I looked at one review today, 1/11/14, about how the good the book was.  They said the first 60-70 pages or so was uninteresting and boring and got into the good, hard training of the Navy SEALS and was interesting by then.  The book Lone Survivor is the book I will probably read next.  If you have read this book, what do you have to say about it?

Letter to the Author

I finished the book I was reading, Airport, over the winter break.  I liked the book a lot.  The events in the book were really interesting to read.  I wish the bomb was set off over the Atlantic Ocean because the stowaway, Ada Quonsett, deserved to die in my opinion.  She did 'take' over tens of thousands of dollars from multiple airlines.  I did not like her at all.  If she had been taken off the plane before the departure or been sent back to Los Angeles (her origin), I don't think the bomb had been disturbed.  I am happy the plane came back safely.  The scenario was very close to Chicago O'Hare Airport today (1/5/14).  It was very snowy and with that, a huge backlog of flights waiting to get their destination.  This type of situation could possibly happen but with the beefed up security, I don't think it will happen.  Overall, I rate this book 9.5/10.  I could picture everything happening on the tarmac, terminal and in the air.  How was your last book?

Boeing 707-320B in the film