Book Summary: Plane Surviving

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What confuses me is why they call the book getting air when he never really goes skateboarding. One question I have is that it is very unlikely that Jimmy and all of his friends were the only ones who survived. I think the chances of that happening is compared to winning the lottery. Another question I have is how did an 80 year old woman survive the crash when all of her other friends died. Also a lot of those women were younger than her. Another question I have is how Jimmys skate bored saved his life from the crash. It doesn't make sense how a piece of metal would save him from a plane crash. The last question I have is how they weren't that injured. The worst injury was a broken leg and everyone else was just a little bruised.

5. Describe your favorite event in the book and tell why? A. My favorite event is when david Jimmy and Henry go hunting for some food. Then all of a sudden they see a deer. So they all stop and just stare at it. Then they get ready to shoot it and Henry's bow misfired and hit Jimmy in the shoulder. It's my favorite event because, it's hilarious that no one even came close to hitting the deer but they managed to hit each other. I’m pretty sue I could of hit it and I don’t do too much hunting. Also jimmy got pretty lucky that it was just a flesh wound. It could have been a lot worse.
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Now everyone looks up to her because she is the one who tells them what to do next. Another character I admire is Mildred. I admire Mildred because even though she is 80 she never lets that get in the way. She acts like a 12 year old because she wanted to be the first one to ride the ramp that they made. She rode it but totally failed and landed on her face but at least she tried. Also if she wouldn't of voted for the boys idea they wouldn't have been able to make the ramp. If that wouldn't of happened then they wouldn't have became so rich and

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