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Essay / The boy who fell from the sky by Ken Dornstein
The boy who fell from the sky by Ken DornsteinImagine yourself, for a moment, among the 243 passengers of a Boeing wide-body plane. It's two days before Christmas 1988 and you can't wait to see your family in New York. You are sitting comfortably in your coach class window seat, row 40, reading a book of poetry by Charles Baudelaire. It's 7:00 p.m. and about 35 minutes after takeoff; the plane has just stabilized at its cruising altitude. You now hear the captain reducing the throttle on the engines. Everything is perfect in this plane; in fact, it's not an airplane at all. It looks more like a coin than a metal tube; a room with perfectly vertical walls. By now, most people have actually forgotten that they are actually inside an airplane. They are in a movie theater, a bar or even at home relaxing in their favorite recliner. Suddenly you hear a loud noise coming from the front of the plane. You feel extreme pressure on every inch of your body, like you've been hit by a train. Screams and screams fill the cabin, and then, very abruptly, it all ends, forever. This is precisely what happened to David Dornstein before he fell, already dead, 10 kilometers above the ground in Ella Ramsden's front yard, the landing site of about 60 other people when the plane exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. Sky by Ken Dornstein is a true story about the life of David Dornstein and how his brother Ken digs through his many letters, manuscripts, notebooks and diaries and interviews David's friends to find out everything he can about the short story. life of his brother, aged only 25. years. Along the way, Ken discovers some very sensitive topics and horrible things that happened to David. He also explores David's past relationships and tries to combine everything to create a documentation of David's life so that he can move forward and live his life without David interfering with his. The story also describes Ken Dornstein's life after the death of his brother and the paths he chooses to take to escape the enormous pressure of death. The Boy Who Fell from the Sky is a work of non-fiction and is considered a biography. The subject deals with the life story of the author's brother and how the author fully immersed himself in it after his brother's death..