Summary Of Surviving The Apollo 13 Disasters By Henry M. Holden

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Thomas Hardy once said, “A story must be exceptional enough to justify its telling; it

must have something more unusual to relate than the ordinary experience of every average man

and woman.” This quote means that when an author writes a story, it is not supposed to be just

your typical narrative. There should be something that makes it different. I concur with

this statement. Two pieces of literature that support this are Gravediggers: Mountain of Bones

by Christopher Krovatin and Danger in Space: Surviving the Apollo 13 Disaster by Henry M.

Holden.

In Gravediggers: Mountain of Bones, the writer reveals that there are just three kids who

do not even like each other and are lost in the woods. However, those woods are not what …show more content…

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is like they are in a never ending maze. This section of the story relates to the critical lens

because it is not a common adventure book. Instead, Krovatin puts an exciting spin on it and

decides to make it unique. In this part of the narrative, the author uses the literary element of

tone to make the story seem very tenebrous and dark during there search back to camp.

Therefore, it is clearly evidenced in Gravediggers: Mountain of Bones that makes it the outcast

and uncommon from other stories.

Henry M. Holden’s Danger In Space: Surviving the Apollo 13 Disaster also shows us that

anything can happen that is not normal. Set in Houston, Texas and in outer space the story

reveals that the protagonists, astronauts James Lovell Jr., Jack Swigert Jr., Fred Haise Jr., and

Mission Control in Houston, Texas, are up against a spacecraft 200,000 miles away from Earth

and 45,000 miles away from the moon. This part of the story relates to the critical lens because it

is a matter of life and death and nothing like it has ever happened before. It is not like Lovell,

Swigert, and Haise are on Earth communicating with Houston to fix the problem, they are

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