Hello My Fellow Readers!
Glad you came back to check out more on my book "Stuck In Neutral"! With more on what I've been reading, Shawn said he had some good and bad news going on in his life? The good news was in my last blog. So if you haven't read it, you HAVE TO TOTES GO GO BACK AND READ IT. Anyways, the bad news is, well, Shawn thinks his dad is planning to kill him. On page 12, Shawn says, " This bad news is complicated, difficult to explain. In a nutshell, it's that I am pretty sure my dad is planning to kill me." I wasn't sure to believe this little thought that Shawn thought or not. But I guess I'll have to wait and see when I dig into my book more and find out!
I thought I would do something a little bit different other than just conflicts and such all the time. So for today, I'm going to be talking about the Point of View in the book "Stuck In Neutral". I think the book is in written in a First Person Point of View. I know this because I noticed that there were the words I and me. Usually when a book is written with those to words, it's a book in the first person point of view. For example, in the book it Shawn said, " His eyes seemed locked onto mine at that moment when life left him; I wasn't watching a dog then, I was looking at the death looking back at me." In one point of the book, Shawn was talking about how he came to a point where he wasn't sure what to think about death, he just knew how he felt about it. This was because of something that happened to him that made him encounter the looks of death, and I can tell you, Shawn didn't like it. At all.
I'm so sad because I had to give up my other book "The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die". Boo Hoo! At least it was the right thing to do since it was more of a vacation book for me...
But moving forward, I ended up finding another great, and more different book than I usually read. It's called "Stuck In Neutral", by Terry Trueman. So far with what i've been reading, the book is about a boy named Shawn, and he has Cerebal Palsy. That is when you don't have any control towards your bones. He is even living his life in a wheelchair. You may think that Shawn is just some useless dumb kid with a condition and his life sucks. But in Reality, he isn't. You see, even though Shawn isn't able to speak, he can still listen to anyone and everyone's conversations. He will remember everything that someone is talking about, like he said on page 2 of the book, whether its "TV commercials, every melody I've ever listened to from boring, brain-dead country muzak to nasty rap lyrics". He was saying how he could remember all of those things, just by listening intently to those conversations or TV commercials, etc.
Shawn is the main character in the book that I'm currently reading. In my opinion, I think that Shawn is very positive. In chapter one of the book he says "I have some good news, and some bad news. Which one do you want to hear?" Instead of him starting off with the bad news he starts off with the good news. This shows that he wants to announce something that is positive instead of talking about his condition. I also feel like Shawn is very smart. He is has the ability to remember everything that he hears. As it said on page 2 of the book,"the thing is, I can remember everything I ever hear, perfectly, with total recall. I mean everything Everything! Perfectly! Totally!" This means that no matter how long any conversation, TV commercial, etc. is, he always remembers what they say. I know FOR A FACT, I can't do that because I can barely remember the last time that I called my grandma on the phone! Sheesh! He can remember everything that he hears! Wow! One amazing "ability or gift" as he calls it, to be able to remember all that!
