Preventing the Hindenburg Disaster
Imagine stopping the world’s worst balloon crash. Pendragon the Never War, by D. J. MacHale, is an adventure story about a 14-year-old boy, Bobby Pendragon, who lives in a small town in Connecticut. In the first 150 pages of this book, every once and awhile the point of view switches between Bobby on the planet First Earth, to his friends Mark and Courtney on Second Earth. Thus, it helps the reader to understand the author is writing by analyzing his plot and characterization.
The genre of this book is adventure. Spader and Bobby travel to First Earth, which takes place in 1937, to try to stop a major disaster from happening. They first go to a high end hotel and meet Gunny (a traveler) there. Gunny gives Bobby and Spader a place to stay in this hotel, on the floor that is being renovated. Gunny also gives them a job at this hotel as a bell hop. While staying at this hotel, Bobby and Spader hear about a wealthy gangster (Max Rose) also living there. They think that Max has something to do with the disaster that’s going to happen. One day, when Bobby is working at the hotel, he delivers the food that Max orders from room service. At that time, Bobby learns that Max is working with the Nazis. A few days later, there’s a party at the hotel and Max is invited. Bobby, Spader, and Gunny are working at this party. One of Max’s enemies tries to kill him at the party. Bobby and Spader intervene and save Max from his assassin. As a reward for saving his life, Max tells them that they can have whatever they want. Bobby replies, “We want a piece of the action.” Bobby, Spader and Gunny are trying to learn more about Max working with the Nazis. Max agrees, if they tell one of his enemies (Saint Dane) to back off. Bobby and Spader then go to Max’s enemy to tell him to back off. Saint Dane ends up trying to kill Bobby and Spader with small rockets (fire crackers). Bobby learns that Saint Dane...