Champagne Flight – questiens and summary

A sixteen years old student is about to make her first airplane flight. She was on the way to her mother and father, who was moved to Washington. Before she stayed at Mr and Mrs Widnes’s, who lived across the road. She has to stay there, until the exams were over. On the plane she drinks red wine, to act adult. She wanted to appear mature, and wants to grow quickly up. But on the plane, she meets a woman, who changes her mind.

1. Where does the story take place?
The story takes place in a flight on the way to Washington.

2. How old is the narrator?
I-person ~1st-person. Thoughts and feelings - limited. The narrator is a 16 years old girl.

3. Why is she going to fly to Washington on her own?
She is going to fly to Washington on her own, because her father had to move to another posting in Washington and then her mother had to go too. Until her exams were over, her parents sent a plane ticket to her, and she joins them.

4. How does she feel when she starts off on her first flight?
She felt that she had grow-up. In the flight, she tries to act very mature. I think it’s because it’s her first time to fly, even on her own. Her hair was also brushed back from her face, because one of her friend had told her, that it made her look older. She was wearing a suit.

5. Why does she order red wine instead of a soft drink, and how does she feel about it?
She wanted to order a soft drink, but that would have pegged her as a teenager and she wasn’t quite ready to lose the feeling she had of being grown-up. Then she chooses red wine, which was the first thing that came into her head.

6. What does Serena Sinclair look like? What do you think of her name?
Serena Sinclair looked quite old, about forty years. Her hair had brassy gold tone to it that had plainly come out of a bottle brown eyes. She was a stripper.