Robert Cormier's novel "After the First Death" is about a group of terrorist who hijacked a school bus full of children in order to liberate their own country. The novel had a lot of mental and physiological scenes where the character was faced with a physical problems that was creatively expressed through their thoughts and emotions at that moment. The way the author expressed these emotions made the novel seem so haunting and thrilling as you keep on reading and made you a part of that characters inner turmoil and remorse.
             After the First Death had two events happening at the same time, the hijacking of the bus and the general who keeps a secret life from his son . The main focus of the whole novel is the hijacking which becomes the problem of all of the characters mentioned in the story; it shows the views of both the terrorist group, the freedom fighter who hijacked the bus and the federal defense group, Inner delta, whose trying to capture them. Though at the beginning of the novel the author gives you the villain's perspective, and so the author uses this to make the reader favor the villain rather than the hero. The heroes of the novel become boring and secretive compared to the villain, and this is the authors way of changing the rules of story telling and giving the bad guys a chance, for once. Two different stories later combine to formulate these characters purposes and climaxes as the story advances.
             Kate who was one of the main characters and the driver of the bus, was only alive long enough for her to keep the children in the bus quiet. The children were given candy that was drugged in order to keep them quiet, there is where she met a particular boy, who didn't eat the drugged up candy and pretended to be asleep. Kate befriended this boy who was called Raymond and decided to use this little secret to save her and the children. The leader of the freedom fighte
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