Flight of Dreams (Lawhon) - Discussion Questions

Discussion Questions
Use our LitLovers Book Club Resources; they can help with discussions for any book:

• How to Discuss a Book (helpful discussion tips)
• Generic Discussion Questions—Fiction and Nonfiction
• Read-Think-Talk (a guided reading chart)

Also, consider these LitLovers talking points to help start a discussion for Flight of Dreams...and then take off on your own:

1. Lawhon tells the story of the Hindenberg's flight through a handful of characters. Whose story, and personality, were most clearly developed. Which characters were most sympathetic, and who did you first suspect might be responsible for the disaster? Were you rooting the survival of any over the others...or for all equally?

2. Talk about the travel onboard the Hindenberg: the meals, the cocktails, the smoking room, and the service.

3. Do a little research into the current theories to explain the cause of the explosion? How and why does Lawhon upend those theories?

4. How is the author able to create such suspense in a story for which every reader knows the outcome?

5. Do you see any parallels with Flight of Dreams and the 1997 movie The Titanic?

(We'll add specific questions if and when they're made available by the publisher.)

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