Book of Quotes

After the First Death

After the First Death by Robert Cormier

- "The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?" 

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I am just not having good luck with book recently.  I read this book last year for school and I can only find the one quote.  So I'll go on a little about the book this week. This may contain spoilers so if you do plan on reading this book and don't want to know what happens be careful. 

Summary: Kate Forrester, a high school student, is filling in for her uncle as the bus driver for 16 pre-school kids headed to day camp near Hallowell, Massachusetts, when a team of four terrorists hijacks the bus and forces Kate drive it to the middle of an abandoned railway bridge. It's also near Fort Delta, an aging military post that serves as the home for the "Inner Delta," a top secret anti-terrorism unit. The youngest member of the terrorist team is Miro, a 16-year-old plucked from his native land and trained for three years, who expects to perform his first killing on this mission. 

As ransom, the kidnappers demand the release of jailed prisoners from their homeland, $10 million in cash, and the dismantling of the Inner Delta. Things get off to a rocky start when one of the children fed drugged candy to keep him quiet dies of an allergic reaction to the drug. Kate tries to make a run for it with an extra bus ignition key but fails. Then, after the terrorists make contact with Brig. General Rufus Briggs, the head of Inner Delta, he offers to send his 16-year-old son Ben as the courier with the ransom money. Soon after, the shooting starts.

Plot & Themes:

- descript. of violence and chases 30%

- Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 20%

- Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 40%

- How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) 10%

- Tone of story    -   suspenseful (sophisticated fear)

- Time/era of story:    -   1980's-1999

- Spying/Terrorism Thriller    -   Yes

- Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:    -   kidnap/rescue

- Kid or adult book?    -   Adult or Young Adult Book

- Who's the terrorist enemy here?    -   generic terrorists

Main Character

- Gender    -   Female

- Profession/status:    -   student

- Age:    -   a teen

- Ethnicity/Race    -   White/American

Setting

- United States    -   Yes

- The US:    -   Northeast

- Small town?    -   Yes

Writing Style

- Accounts of torture and death?    -   moderately detailed references to deaths

- Explicit sex in book?    -   Yes

- What kind of sex:    -   vague references    -   descript. of breasts

- Unusual forms of death    -   poisoning

- Unusual form of death?    -   Yes