All Because of the Mistake

I liked very much how the story starts. At first we don’t know what the author is referring to, by starting to describe some feelings that the reader should have, writing the story with “you” as the main character. I found this very original, I think it’s the first story I read which uses “you” as a character, this makes it easier for the reader to be able to understand the character’s feelings, since the reader is forced to put himself into the character’s situation, and wonder what it would be like if he had to face that kind of things. Personally, I could really feel the stress and nervousness of the pilot, as well as all the doubts he has about himself being able to do everything right.

I also like the way the narrator tells the story, by having flash-backs, which makes it sound more realistic. As if someone was telling us exactly what he’s thinking at that moment. “You glide along the coast in a fantasy of immobility and timelessness, on the right the island, on the left the sea, you glide along thinking of the first time you made the ascent with Bruno, the first time, the orientation and test flight” (pg. 207).

I think that the author chose not to give any details about the character to make the story more general. The pilot could be any person, and that makes it easier for the reader to think that he could be that pilot. Also, I don’t think that the narrator suffers from any disease; I actually think the author made a very good job to make the character’s feelings very life-like. We all have felt nervous and unsecure in some point of our lives, and I think this story is able to make the reader recall those feeling. Overall, I think it was a very good story because somehow the reader immerses in it and experiences the same feelings of the character.

How would the story change if it had been written in the first person narrator?