Book Outline

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Outline as of 4-30-09/5-11-09
Jodi, Ink, and Jared were all together on a plane to Asia to go mountain climbing/camping with a group of twenty-seven other kids and three adult leaders. They ranged from 13-17. They’re all students from the Chicago area. It took roughly four months of preparation classes and fundraising for them to be able to go. Within a few hours they experience turbulence and go down
They crashed into a small Island, with only 12 people out of the 37 people aboard. Within a day, two of them die of injuries. Leaving ten left.
At first everyone just focuses on being rescued, but after a week, they realize that it might not happen.
Most of the equipment and food survived, which meant that they have enough food for six weeks. However they weren’t prepared for tropical conditions, they were prepared for snow and climbing. So, first things are to get everything set up.
After that they have a meeting on how they are going to get home. Jared brings out the GPS that he’s fixed and breaks the news that they are on an island that shouldn’t exist. He tells them that he thinks that he can reverse engineer the GPS to send out a signal, but it will take time.
A few days later another problem arises, they are running out of water. They didn’t bring much, because you can just melt snow for water.
Storyline B: The flight attendant, Suzanne has been a pain. She thinks that being the adult she should be in charge of everything. But she really isn’t helping
Its agreed that because the flight attendant is the adult she should go with, but she argues and refuses. Annoyed, Kaleb volunteers to take her place. However on their quest for water, Kaleb falls and dies.
When the kids get back to the camp, people at first are glad that there was water, but then fall when they see the body. Suzanna looks stunned. Jodi slaps her. After this, Suzanna doesn’t bother anyone, but she doesn’t do anything either. Nobody bothers to do anything about it.
A pattern develops where people go back and forth to get the water until everything is full. Jodi and Ink start to explore the rainforest, taking someone else with them everyday. They find banana and coconut trees, along with other various fruits. Its decided that they’ll incorporate this into their regular food to try and save more of the regular food.
As the pattern continues, people start to get anxious. Jared is rarely seen, because he’s always working on the GPS. After another week, Jodi makes him come out and take a break. They have a good talk, but when they come back to the beach people get angry at him for leaving.
Jodi tries to defend him, but Jared snaps. He yells at everyone that he can’t do it.
Despair follows. People don’t know what to do. And Neither does Jodi for a while. Then Suzanna stands up and talks. She encourages them to start again
They develop a new plan. Get off. Its plain now that no one is coming. So they build a boat, possibly out of stuff from the plane, which they still are using for something. I don’t know what. Name for the plane?
They stop eating the real food because they know it will last longer on the boat. Instead they eat only the stuff from the island. Name the island?
Jared at this point has been outcast, nobody talks about what he did, or rather didn’t do. And it isn’t that they will no longer accept him, but rather that he won’t accept the fact that he failed everyone.
Jodi doesn’t know what to do with it, so she convinces herself that she’ll figure it out by the time they are ready to leave. But when that time comes, she still doesn’t have the words.
After a bad confrontation she takes a walk where she gets lost. Jared comes and find her, they make a pact to help each other, a little predictable, but what can you do?
Two days later they leave.
They spend four days on the water before a storm approaches. It takes a few hours for it to get there, but the storm rages across the tiny boat, tearing it to shreds.
Unsure amount of time later, Jodi wakes on a piece of driftwood with Jared necklace in her hand. She sees land, but it too tired to do anything, she drifts out of consciousness.
Someone yelling her name wakes her up. It’s Ink with Suzanna along with a bunch of locals. She’s rescued.
A week later she is back on a plane. They are going to the island to gather equipment, and take the families to the graves.
Jodi sneaks away to the cave and find Jared. Happy reunion. Then they go back to the group and leave the island.
The End

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