viernes, 19 de marzo de 2010

NIGHT WITHOUT END



Night without end


Thriller novel
1959


By Scottish Alistair Maclean



"An British Airways airplane crash-lands on the Greenland ice cap far from its usual route after flying in a seemingly erratic fashion. A scientific research team based near the crash site rescues the surviving passengers and takes them to their station. The team finds that one passenger and most of the flight crew are dead with one of the pilots to be shot in the back. The only means of contact with the outside world, a radio set, is destroyed in a seemingly accidental manner. With not enough food for everyone and no hope of rescue, the leader of the scientific research team, Dr Mason, decides that they must set out for the nearest settlement. Meanwhile the pilot who was shot and in a coma is found to have been suffocated. An attempt is also made on Dr Mason life by getting him to be lost in the arctic night. The scientists suspicion falls on stewardess but she is soon cleared. Dr Mason orders the radio operator, London, to stay behind and repair the radio so that a field expedition can be contacted".



Some important details about this novel will be interesting because we can see them as wrong acts or excellent acts from the characters. What will we do in the characters situation? Can you imagine yourself in the Greenland ice, without enough foot, no hope of rescue and in the worse of the cases you have to depend of someone else` decisions. Well in the previous two texts above they tell you as a summary what happen in the story and you can think and imagine what will you do in that situation or what is going to happen with the character at that moment.



The first truth that characters had to endure is that there was no hope to rescue them, the second one is there were no enough food for them. And another truth was that there were murderers and they were scared about their life. They had to endure the stress to think who were the criminals and then tried to survive.



That was a hard decision because they were thinking about what was going to happen with the people alive, without care too much who were killing people.
Let`s think for a moment what will do in the character`s situation. Well in my case I will be worried about who are or who the killer is, and then will be worried about food, because when the food will end, people in that place will become frustrated about what is going to happen with us, and it is difficult to follow orders from someone else in that situation of chaos or panic. In part of the story Dr. Mason took the control of the situation, but not all the people were agree with that decision.



They manage to catch up the criminals near the shore where a trawler waits for the criminals. But the intervention of navy, on information from Captain Hillcrest, frightens off the trawler. The criminals are surrounded here and after a bitter hand to hand combat between the protagonists and the criminals, the mechanism and the hostages are rescued.



At the end of the story they got the criminals and rescuers saved the Scientifics , of couser with some help from the marine crew.




These are questions from the story:


how will you feel with a night without end?


and


what will you do in the situation of the scientifics?




too difficult right? if you answer these question you will understand in a better way the novel and the character`s feelings.

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