In the Unlikely Event narrates fictional stories based on real life events of serial crashes of airplanes in Elizabeth, New Jersey between the months of December 1951 and August 1952.

Judy Blume has written this novel in a conversational and accessible tone for which the writer is popular as a young adult fiction writer. The story is written in a third person tone that closely follows the various characters of the story all of whom their own stories written in a series of short chapters. Judy’s focus is on the elements and events that are seemingly mundane but it allows for the action of the store with the right pace intensifying the larger events like the plane crashes, deaths, conflicts and revelations and making them more of an impact to the readers. Judy Blume successfully recreates the real human experiences in the story. She does this by slowing down the world thereby making the readers feel the effects in a more evocative manner. Additionally, the use of real news stories by her for informing the readers helps create the contexts for the events leads to addition of an additional layer or the reality to their experiences. It also juxtaposes the real events that are experienced by the story’s characters with the account of the stories printed in the news.

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