Brief Summary Of The Book Called Girl On A Plane By Miriam Moss

During the book called girl on a plane, by Miriam Moss, fifteen year old Anna is traveling back to her English boarding school alone, after she spent the summer with her family. Anna’s flight gets hijacked by a group of well known Palestinian guerillas. The Palestinian group is called the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine). While Anna is on the plane, she quickly develops relationships with two passengers sitting next to her. The two passengers are Tim and David. Tim is an elementary school boy who is very focused on ensuring his beloved terrapin makes it out alive, and David is a high school student who is very concerned about his and Anna’s safety. These three characters continue to support each other throughout the book. The guerillas make them land the plane in the Jordanian desert.
When they land the plane they then switch off the engines, and issue their demands. There demands are that the British government releases a political prisoner. If the demands are not met in three days, then they will blow up the plane, and kill all of the
The author shows how scared she was, and in the back of the book it talks about her keeping in touch with the other plane passengers, when she felt the most frightened, what was the most difficult part for her, her contact with the hijackers, her life after the hijacking, and why she chose to write this book after forty-five years. The author, Miriam said she felt the most frightened during the hijack when the hijacker first came through the curtain at the beginning, waving a gun, and how bad the hijackers hand was shaking. The most difficult part for Miriam was not being able to tell her parents that she was alive. Miriam said she talked to the hijackers about their suffering and homeless stories, but she could not feel any empathy for them considering how many people’s lives they put at