seth novitch

Seth Novitch
A Higher Call
John Makos
realistic fiction
just finished 346

1. The ending of the book was a major dog fight which is a battle in the air between planes. This one was very interesting because it was a pretty long time ago so they didn't have the best planes which caused a lot of trouble for both sides. First of all they had planes with propellers which weren't very reliable. This made a huge difference because the two best pilots had to face off against each other even though it wasn't a fair fight it was unexpected which made it even better. The german pilot was in a small and fast jet and the American pilot was in a huge and slow bomber. Originally I thought the German would win but it turned out that after fighting in the air for a long time none of them could defeat the other. They were just way to evenly matched and eventually they were just to damaged to keep fighting so they had to turn back home. After the war had ended the American went back to America and so did the German. Then out of know where they actually meet each other at a cafe even though they didn't actually know who the other person was. Soon after they talked about it for a while they realized that they were the ones fighting against each other. The surprising part was that they just laughed about it. Eventually going there separate ways but they still kept in touch with each other.

2. Overal I thought the book was a pretty good read even though some parts of it were a little boring and confusing. The parts I especially enjoyed was that the story went back and forth between the two characters. Which was very interesting because I got to see both perspectives of what the war was like on the enemies and good guys side. The author was also very good at explaining each part of the war because eventually I couldn't understand some of the parts of the war and some terms but he explained them eventually in the book. If he hadn't done that then I wouldn't really have enjoyed the book.

3. I thought that the books theme was hopes and dreams because that was shown thought the whole entire book. It was mostly in the beginning of the book because there was just two boys the were hoping to be a  pilot some day in the army. Then it was when they were actually in the war and hoped that they could go back home and hope they wouldn't die. This just shows how sometimes kids in the world want to be soldiers when they get older and they think it would be cool. But then they are there and they want to go home and wish they weren't in the army. Of course sometimes people do want to go into the army though to serve there country and are not afraid of it.

4. My favorite character was Charlie and he was the American pilot in the story. He was my favorite character because I was able to relate to him in some ways like how as a kid he wanted to be in the army which was one of my dreams. Also that he was really fun to follow because he did so many cool things as a pilot plus he was really fun and a good leader.

5. I didn't really like Franz the german fighter pilot. he wasn't my favorite because later in the book he would take way to many risks and ended up killing some of his friends. Also because he was on the enemies team in the book and the germans did some bad things in the book. Overall he was still an ok character but had some fluas to him which is why he wasn't my favorite.

6. Well actually I thought the book was going to be the same as it turned out. This was because one of the major clues I got from the author was that as they went through training and stuff you could already tell they were some of the best pilots ever. This led to them facing each other in battle and none of them actually beating the other one. Something I did not expect was in the end when they met each other and became good friends instead of fighting or even getting mad at the other one.