Jane Conrad and Pete Conrad are some of the characters in the story.Jane Conrad is a character who you can predictable about. As all wife would like her husband to be safe and not die But her husband Pete Conrad is a character who is not predictable as you can't say what he is going to do next.He goes through a big change as he became a astronaut from a test pilot. 

In chapter two the author is comparing ambitious test pilot to a ziggurat an ancient Babylonian  pyramid with its steps and terrace. The author also takes about how pilot have a hard time landing a plane in to a aircraft carrier in a sea as it is only 60 feet above the water and also tell us why it is hard. 

The setting in the book and the movie are completely different. In the book the story starts by tell in us about a pilot called Pete Conrad, and his wife Jane Conrad and how people say that her husband might have died in a plain crash. In the movie the story starts  by telling us about how many people die while trying to brake the sound barrier. They then show how Chuck Yeager one of the American test pilots break the sound barrier. 

In the setting of the book the author tell us about some of the character who are Jane Conrad, her husband Pete Conrad who was a test  pilot. The story takes place in Florida,  jacksonville. This is where they live. They both had met each other at Princeton university. They married 2 years after they graduated from Princeton. They had one son named peter.

 

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

 

I chose this book becuse my father told me that this book was one of his most favorite book. I had also seen the movie of this book which was very good so I decided to read the book.The author of this book is Tom Wolf he is a author and journalist he has more then a dozen books. The story is about some test pilots who become astronauts. The genre of the book is non fiction. I have not read many non fiction books so I am excited to read this.
















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