Who Is The Hero In Robert Elmer's Candy Bombers

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The book Candy Bombers is by: Robert Elmer. The genre of the book is historical fiction. The time it was in is Berlin, Germany, spring of 1948 in the Cold War and it was in third person. It started 40 years later when this kid was in the American plane that was in the Cold War he snuck on the plane and ducked under one of the benches and he saw blood and carved words Erich. 40 years earlier. A kid named Erich snuck on an American plane that was flying in the Cold War. He thought that everyone would think he was a hero. He carved his name into a bottom of a bench and he cut himself and he bled a little bit on the bench. When Erich came out of the plane he got cot by one of the American soldiers he told him he hoped to see him again but not on the airport side of the fence. Erich said okey and the soldier gave him a bar of Hershey's dark …show more content…
Erich left for his grandma's apartment to give her the dark chocolate. When he started to ride there Katrena his cousin came to go with him and Erich told her the whole story. When he told her about the chocolate she thought he stole it but he told her that he didn’t. When he got there his grandma Oma greeted them and wondered where he got the chocolate and Erich told her the story and she kind of believed him but not much. The next day Erich and Katrina went to the airport and Erich went inside of a plane that he thought was unloading and Katrina went to him and told him he wasn’t doing this alone and the plane started to move and they took off and the copilot saw them and brought them out of there and when they landed they said that they contacted their parents and told them where they were and this guy named Fred