Question

Read the last two sentences of this story "this is Dayton tower.Please be advised that all air traffic is suspended until further-"what feeling does the author create by ending the story with this incomplete statement?Use details from the story to support you're answer.

Answer 1

Answer:

It creates a feeling of suspense.

Explanation:

The short story "Flying Blind" tells of how an emergency medical response team of the air medical. They have got an emergency where two females were hurt in  car crash just "three miles north of Urbana on State Route 68".

The protagonist State Trooper Ed Kierzwinsk was hoping for a full night of rest, considering the weather condition. But with that emergency, he and his team had to fly out in their Air trooper 1 "Bell 429 helicopter." But after they had loaded the injured girl inside, though the other one had succumbed to her injuries, Kierzwinsk tried hard to steer clear of the power lines amid the strong winds as it was during the storm. And then the narrator end with the announcement from the operator that "all air traffic has been suspended until further notice".

This ending is incomplete as it doesn't provide how the medical team fare, do they survive or not? But it is left to us, the readers, to come to our own conclusions, but which is fair to say that they do not survive for we can infer from the lines "The helicopter is temporarily  suspended, roaring at full throttle but motionless in the sky." This ending creates a feeling of suspense, leaving out the ending of the story.