After The First Death
(Robert Cormier)
A school
bus full of 5- and 6-year-old children is hijacked by several
terrorists (including Miro and led by Artkin). Kate tries desperately
throughout the book to free the children by talking to Miro. She
notices that Miro, unlike Artkin, has feelings. Kate plays this
characteristic of Miro to her advantage, and begins to flirt with him
and feign interest in him. By the end she ends up truly caring about
him. As the story begins, it seems to focus on Ben, but he turns out to
be a minor character. The end reveals a surprising, but angering and
upsetting twist. After the First Death is about a summer camp bus that
gets hijacked by four terrorists. It is told in the third person
primarily, but seemingly in the eyes of Kate, the teenage bus driver,
and Miro, the teenage terrorist. It is also told in first person as a
reflection by Ben and his father.
Kate starts trying to charm Miro into not wanting to kill her, but
gives up when it seemingly makes no difference. At one point she even
hatches an escape plot, which only makes the terrorists watch her
closer.
Snipers are surrounding the bus, but have been previously held off
with the promise that for each one that dies, a child will. So when one
of the terrorists is shot accidentally, the nicest of the children is
shot, which sends Kate, the bus driver, into disgust.
A go between (Ben) is sent to bargain, but he is tortured and shot,
which eventually leads to his and his father''s suicide. When help
arrives, Miro''s cowardice causes Artkin to be shot. Kate reveals to him
that Artkin may be his father. He shoots her immediately dead. The last
pages are extremely emotional and powerful, as they describe primarily
Miro''s new life without his father, Kate''s last thoughts before she
dies, and ben''s father beginning to go mad and kill himself.
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