When people make a illegal decision, what background do you think they have hidden? Skyjack! tells us a poor girl and her brothers' miserable childhood and adolescence through their big crime.
Harald and Carl is on the plane as usual - they enjoy chatting, having a coffee and taking a rest until they reach a country. Suddenly, a gentle young hostess holds a gun and starts threatening the passengers. The hijackers including the girl belong to a crime family and they desire to set their brother who are arrested in the country free. The Prime Minister, Helen would not like to hurt the passengers as much as possible because some of the passengers are relevant to the foreign keys such as America and England. Thus, she decides to pretend to set their brother free and shoot the hijacker. Will her plan go right? Moreover, what roles do Harald and Carl make to learn the hijacker's past? I would like you to pay attention to them.
This time I will focus on the viewpoint of the characters. Through two-year-reading at PUK, I have realized this kind of lively and speedy stories are told by the each character's setting and point. For example, while Harald and Carl's story is going on, Helen's plan are being shown. However, it is tough for the readers to catch the exact time without tips, so the author puts the third person's conversation (it is a short explanation which implies the two stories' order) to make the whole chapter more simple and well-organized. In contrast, the stories which aim at showing the logical and subjective aspects are written by the third person's view such as Alice in Wonderland. As matter of fact, the readers can get the characters' feeling, setting and plan by their conversation, however the storyteller is essential to draw the mysterious and childlike Wonderland briefly. When you read books, it doesn't hurt to see the construction of the story?
Vicary, Tim. Skyjack! (2000). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
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