Posted by Adam Quinan on January 13, 2007 at 21:11:43 from 74.103.34.126 user Adam.
In Reply to: The Untold Stories - Re: When did Swallow get swamped? posted by Ed Kiser on January 13, 2007 at 18:57:41:
I posted before I could add my comments at the bottom, sorry.
There are a number of other occasions where lives were put in danger.
Sailing in the dark in SA.
In CC the sinking of the Margoletta.
In PP, the trip through the collapsing mine workings and during the fire on High Topps, in the mine and by the camp.
However, all of these are required to make a good story. Although the calm and peaceful life on the island before the war got going or the halcyon days at Swallowdale must have been great fun for those living them, for the reader they are perhaps a bit boring and a bit of action is needed to spice things up. Action usually implies at least some risk and all of these risks are realistic, even foreshadowed in some cases. Yes there is danger but we do know in most cases that there is a way to safety (Sailing in the dark and the Egyptians are the two where there seems little chance of the children escaping their folly, except you know they are safely tucked up in a book).