An Alternate Ending Of The Pilot Short Story

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In a cottage in the countryside there was an old lady sleeping, as she was restlessly sleeping she heard a noise in the distance. The old lady had waken when the noise was just a little rumble, and eventually she got up and prayed for her son's safety. While she was sitting in her armchair the old lady, heard the bombers planes grow louder and louder overhead. The bombers soon left and the lady rested her eyes but did not sleep, and she thought she heard a voice; the voice of her son and went to the window. Slowly she walked back to her chair thinking that she needs to see him, when she closed her eyes the old lady saw an aircraft with her son in it. As she cried out to him the old lady walked closer and closer until she stood, watching him pilot the plane. All of a sudden, the aircraft was hit and the engine burst into flames on the left side. The old lady rushed to get her son to safety and frantically was trying to pull him out of the plane, but
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When he began to feel dizzy and lightheaded, he soon realizes he does not know where he is anymore. Peter knows he is going to crash so he jumps out of the plane. Then he wakes up in a hospital bed, the nurse comes in and tells him he is in Brighton. At first Peter believes the nurse until he notices strange things such as the water is hard, but when he was in school it was soft. Also, he thinks he hears Junkers 88 which are German planes that would be shot down if they were in British airspace. The finally thing that convinces him that he isn’t in Brighton is out the window he sees a sign that says “Garde au chien”. Williamson soon realizes that he is in a POW camp in France. The nurse soon comes in and tells him a Royal Air Force official is coming to see him and Peter remembers the words of his friend, “. . . if they get you, don't forget, just your name, rank and number. Nothing else. For God's sake, say nothing else."(Dahl

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