What did Gabriel mistake for a plane?
John Thompson
Updated on January 06, 2026
He thought a bird was a plane. There was a desperate fear building in him.
How did Jonas prevent the heat sensing planes from finding he and Gabe?
He transmits memories of exhaustion to Gabriel in order to make him sleep during the day, and in order to avoid the heat-seeking technology of the planes, he transmits memory of intense cold to both of them so that their body heat does not show up on the planes' devices.What does Jonas do when the planes fly by?
Once, when he saw a jet flying overhead, he was frightened by it. After the jet flew by, everyone was ordered to go inside immediately. Jonas remembers that, at the time, his younger sister Lily was at the Childcare Center.Did Gabriel see a bird and think it was a plane?
Gabriel thought that a bird was an airplane. Both Jonas and Lily use the word "animal" but neither knows what it means.What did Jonas fear?
Jonas Questions His DecisionJonas' biggest fear is that they will starve to death. Jonas finds some berries and catches some fish, but he is aware of constant hunger. 'Once he had yearned for choice. Then, when he had had a choice, he had made the wrong one: the choice to leave.