The Boy Who Fell from the Sky by Ken DornsteinImagine yourself, for a moment, among 243 passengers on a Boeing jumbo jet. It's two days until Christmas 1988 and you're excited to see your family in New York. You're sitting comfortably in your coach class window seat in row 40, reading a book of poems by Charles Baudelaire. It's 7pm and there's about 35 minutes left until take-off; the plane is just stabilizing at its cruising altitude. Now you hear the captain slow down the engines. Everything is perfect on this plane; in fact, it's not a plane at all. It's more like a room than a metal pipe; a room with perfectly vertical walls. By now, most people have actually forgotten that they are, in fact, inside an airplane. They're at the movies, a coffee shop, or even at their home relaxing in their favorite recliner. Suddenly a loud noise is heard coming from the front of the plane. You feel extreme pressure on every square inch of your body, as if you've been hit by a train. Screams and screams fill the cabin, and then, suddenly, it all ends, forever. That's exactly what happened to David Dornstein before he fell, already dead, 6 miles above the ground in Ella Ramsden's backyard, the landing site of about 60 other people, when the plane exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. Ken Dornstein's Sky is a true story about the life of David Dornstein and how his brother Ken searches through his many letters, manuscripts, notebooks and diaries and interviews David's friends to find out everything he can about his brother's short life. only 25 years old. years. Along the way, Ken discovers some very sensitive topics and horrible things that have happened to David. He also explores David's past relationships and tries to combine everything together to create a documentation of David's life so that he can move forward and live life without David interfering with his. The story also depicts Ken Dornstein's life after his brother's death and the paths he chooses to take to escape the enormous pressure of death. The Boy Who Fell from the Sky is a work of nonfiction and is considered a biography. The topic deals with the life story of the author's brother and how the author was completely immersed in it after his brother's death.