Titanic: The Long Night
Titanic: The Long Night is a 1998 romance novel by Diane Hoh. It is an entirely fictional story set aboard the.
The plot centers on two narratives of fictional characters aboard the Titanic. The first is the story of Elizabeth Farr. Elizabeth boards the Titanic with her parents setting out to reach New York City to be engaged to Alan Reed, a man she does not wish to marry. While on the ship, she has frequent discussions with her parents about wanted to go to college and not wanting to marry Alan, but they refuse to let her make her own decisions. While on the ship, she meets Maxwell Whittaker, the son of the wealthy Whittaker family, and falls in love with him against her parents' will.
The plot also deals with the story of Kathleen Hanrahan, a girl who boards the ship in Queenstown, Ireland. She falls in love with a man named Patrick "Paddy" Kelleher. She is also forced to care for two young children, Kevin and Bridey, whose caretaker fails to pay attention to them.
On the night, the Titanic crashes into the iceberg, Elizabeth forgets all of her troubles when she realizes that she has to leave Max and her father behind on the ship while it sinks. She gets in lifeboat number six with her mother, Nola.
Meanwhile, Katie wakes up in her third-class cabin all by herself. She finds Paddy, and he takes her, Kevin, and Bridey up to the boat deck, where they find Paddy's brother Brian. Brian refuses to get in a lifeboat and instead opts to stay behind, encouraging other people to get in boats before it is too late. Katie and Paddy get into the lifeboat while Brian stays behind.
Max and Elizabeth's father, still on the ship, retire to the gymnasium until Max goes outside. The ship suddenly starts to plunge into the water, and Max is washed off, presumably dead.
While Elizabeth, Nola, Katie, Paddy, and the rest of the people in the lifeboats watch, the goes underwater with more than 1,500 people in it. After floating all night, the boats are picked up by the. While on the ship, Elizabeth finds Max in the hospital room. However, Katie and Paddy are less fortunate and have to face the fact that Brian is dead.
When they get to New York, Elizabeth attends Vassar College and marries Max, while Paddy becomes a writer and marries Katie.
Characters
As with the 1997 film, Hoh's novel focuses on the fictitious passengers aboard the Titanic.The following is a list of Hoh's characters:
- Elizabeth Farr
- Martin Farr
- Nola Farr
- Maxwell Whittaker
- Lily
- Kathleen Hanrahan
- Patrick Kelleher
- Brian Kelleher
- Marta
- Eileen
- Kevin
- Bridey
- Arthur Beauchamps