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The Last Mission is a novel by the author Harry Mazer. This novel is about Jack Raab, a fifteen-year-old boy who lies about his age in order to enlist in the Army during World War II.

Jack wants to represent his family in the fight against Hitler. However, Jack underestimates how difficult being away from home will be as well as the dangers of fighting a war, even from the air. Jack survives more than twenty bombing missions, only to lose his entire crew on the final run. The Last Mission is a story of the passions that send young men to war and the reality that changes everything.Jack Raab is in Louisiana training on a B-17 with his new crew. Jack has been in the Air Corps for a few months, longer than he imagined he would be. Jack lied about his age to get in and was sure someone would figure it out by now. However, no one seems to notice the small differences between Jack and his fellow soldiers.

Jack notices the difference, though. Everyone else gets mail from their family and friends, but Jack does not. Jack cannot tell his family and friends where he is. Jack cannot visit his family when he goes home on furlough.

Instead, Jack visits Dotty, a young woman he met while at basic training in Miami Beach.After furlough, Jack is sent to Europe with the rest of his crew. Jack and his crew fly a plane called Godfathers, Inc. This is the name the entire crew chose because they are all godfathers to the newborn daughter of Pratt, a member of the crew. The first mission goes without a hitch despite the nerves of everyone on board. Before long, the missions become routine, even when the flak is flying around them, tearing holes in the plane's skin. However, one flight is not routine.

While flying over Germany, Godfather, Inc. Loses an engine. Martin, the pilot, turns the plane toward home. Before they reach the coast of England, another engine goes down. Martin is forced to ditch the plane into the English Channel.

Luckily, however, all the crew members are able to get off the plane without trouble and they are rescued hours later.Not long after Jack's sixteenth birthday, the Godfather II is sent out on a mission over Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. The lead plane does not release its bombs, so the Godfather II is forced to take a second run over the target.

During this run, the wing is chopped nearly in half by flak. Jack is forced to parachute out. On the way down, Jack sees one of his crewmen below him and one above.

Near the ground bullets start flying all around Jack. Jack sees the man above him fall slack. Jack hopes he is only playing dead. As soon as Jack hits the ground, he runs. Jack is able to outrun his pursuers.

For several days, Jack walks the countryside, attempting to avoid capture. Unfortunately, Jack comes to a checkpoint he was not prepared for and is captured.Jack is taken to a military base where he is put on a bus with other Allied soldiers. The soldiers are taken to a hospital where their wounds are treated. Jack meets Stan, a fellow American. Together Jack and Stan are marched across the countryside with two German soldiers who promise they are taking Jack and Stan to the American lines.

However, the Russians are advancing sooner than the German guards anticipated. The Germans leave Jack and Stan at a German camp. That night the war is declared over in Europe.

Jack and Stan are able to leave the camp and return to the American lines.Jack goes back to the military base where he was stationed before the last mission. Jack learns that all of his crewmates are dead. From there, Jack is sent back to the United States. Jack has to wait for his records to come before he learns if he will be able to return home.

By this time, Jack has gotten over his fear of discovery and contacted his family. Jack's family is anxious to have him back home. Jack decides to tell the Army the truth about his age. Jack is given an honorable discharge.At home, Jack goes to visit the parents of one of his crewmen where he is able to assure them their son did not suffer. Jack also visits Dotty and tells her the truth about his age, effectively ending their budding romance.

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Jack spends the rest of the summer without aim, unsure what to do with his future. Finally Jack decides to go back to school. At school, Jack is asked to make a speech to his fellow students about his experiences in the war. Jack tells his classmates that war is horrible and he hopes it never happens again.This section contains 818 words(approx. 3 pages at 400 words per page).

Some reviewers criticized Heaven for its unrealistic portrayal of small town life as idyllic and for its lack of conflict among characters—all of whom are consistently (and incredibly) loving, kind, and supportive. The First Part Last garnered similar criticism for its rose-colored portrayal of a conscientious, loving, competent, and caring sixteen-year-old single father, still going to school and tirelessly struggling to care for his baby daughter on his own, never wavering in love and devotion. Both books feature predictable, rather trite happy endings that please readers more than they please literary analysts.

While the characters and plot fail to ring true for some critics, Johnson is nearly always praised for the controlled emotional impact of her plain, spare writing. Her well-chosen, concrete details tap into her readers’ emotions. In one scene of The First Part Last, for example, Bobby paces the floors of his father’s apartment at five thirty in the morning with a wide-awake Feather in his arms. The sounds of the neighborhood are unfamiliar to him at such an hour, and he grabs the first thing he can find—his old Mets sweatshirt—to warm his shivering baby.

Johnson’s plots may be trite, but her execution saves her narratives from saccharine romanticism. The use of the present tense in both books draws readers into the minds and hearts of the main characters. In The First Part Last, alternating “Then” and “Now” chapters integrate Bobby’s struggles in the present with the backstory of the pregnancy and the loss of Nia. Johnson is a poet, and her images are often fresh and symbolic. In Heaven, for example, sheer curtains blow with a warm breeze across Marley’s face as she naps peacefully. In minutes, the thin, translucent veil they represent will be ripped away, and the serenity of Marley’s comfortable family life will be shattered, when the truth about her parentage is disclosed. Critics found more to love than to hate in these books, both of which won numerous honors, including the Coretta Scott King Award.