Kate extraordinary bravery and weakness .
The term terrorism is a word that catches a lot of people's eyes. For instance the terrorists that attack America last week, September 11, 2001; the time frame was around eight thirty Central Time, this was the "Attack on America," by terrorists from a foreign country. It is kind of like what's going on in the book After the First Death, where terrorists have hijacked a school bus. Which a girl by the name of Kate was driving the bus with a lot of little children on it. She was substituting for her uncle the day of the hijacking. Artkin and Miro were the two that hijacked the bus. Miro had the intentions of killing a man today, but Kate was on the bus. The killing of a man was the way of reaching manhood. Kate was the typical All-American cheerleader but she had a slight bladder problem. Throughout the novel Kate is brave but at the same time confused.
Kate has a very unique side to her. Kate is driving the bus to the location that Artkin and Miro wanted her to drive. Kate wasn't used to taking demands from people, but in this situation she did. The weakness that Kate has is a weak bladder. The bladder problem comes about on the way to the abandoned bridge that, " her pants were wet- her panties she gripped the steering wheel but these things didn't matter." Whenever she gets nerves like in this situation of the hijacking her bladder problem comes up. Why does Comier give her a bladder problem? "She felt like crying the way she had when she was a little girl and crying solved things, brought rescued." She felt like crying the way she used to when she was a little girl because she thought she would have gotten rescued. .
Kate was a very brave person in the hostage situation, she knows that she has to show no fear in for her and the children's benefit. "She rips at the edge of the tape." She tries to make an escape because she's thinking that she really doesn't have anything to live for.
