Doug Paton

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to survive on your own? Would it be easy because you know what to do, would anyone get hurt or sick, or would you hope for the best? Cal and Missi face the challenges of survival, when their plane crashes on their way to a boot camp. As the only 2 on in the forest, with the pilot out cold, Cal and Missi are forced to work together inorder to survive. Doug Paton's novel, our Plane is Down, explores all these ideas, while demanding us to look at life in a different perspective.

This novel is set in Northern Canada. The small forest setting, continually impacts our perspectives on life and what we have. With much talent, Paton brings us into the mind and life of Cal as he deals with the crash and we are lead into his emotional, mental, and physical condition. Cal, being the main person helping the others and himself to survive, finds this as another challenge, which he is ready to tackle, although it does put pressure on him, being uncertain asto if is method is the right one. Within this environment Cal, feels as if he is incharge and it is something that empowers him, because back home he was always the follower, trying to fit in.

Cal's world is a little different form ours, situation wise. When reading this book we are forced to rethink our actions and thoughts. Do we always count our blessings? How many times have we been on the other end, where we were put in a situation without vital ressources for survival?

This is a book that young people and adults need to read. Especially young people, because most often they forget what they already have, and instead, think about what they don't have. This book will totally change your perspective on life and on our habits and actions. Paton makes it into a suspenseful story, without forgetting the morals we are bound to one day follow.… (más)

No doubt the first of many such novels, this is not a bad effort. Curtis has to travel to the WTC to collect his sister who has been on an access visit to their father. Curtis does not like his father, but after the first plane hits the building (above his Dad's office) he and his father and sister must make their way down 60 flights of stairs. What follows is told realistically,Allie gets separated from them at one point and towards the end, the father is overcome by smoke and has to be half dragged and carried by Curtis. Will they make it out alive? Make sure you have the tissues handy when he details the firefighters perishing after they ran up the stairs to put out the fire.
[p.17 "Dad..." to p.23 "add up." The point of impact]… (más)