Airborn: Look at the Main character

Hey guys, I am back here today with another blogpost and today I will be talking about the Main Character of the current book I am reading, Airborn. So Main Character's name is Matt Cruse, a 14 year old cabin boy for the Aurora, an airship that floats by a made up gas called hydrium. In the picture on the right he is working as a lookout for the ship. Looking at the kid's background, he comes from a lower class family, his mother being a seamstress and his father, a sailmaker who died in an accident on an airship in the the Himalayas. He has ambitions to one day become a captain of his own airship. He is described as careful but curios and also very courageous, willing to jump from one airship to another in an attempt save someones life. As people in the the south would say,"I haven't seen anythin like him".


"I felt no fear. If someone had put an ear to my chest, he'd find it beating no faster than it had in the crow's nest. It was not bravery on my part, simply a fact of nature, for I was born in the air (literally born on an airship) and so it seemed the most natural place in the world to me. I was slim as a sapling and light on my feet. The crew all joked I had seagull bones, hollow in the center to allow for easy flight. To swing across this little gap, four hundred feet aloft was no more to me than skipping a crack in the pavement." The amount of description and qualities the author describes shows how he wants you to think that he is one very courageous person.