In chapter 7, Shawn finally talks about school. He talks about the positive and sort of negative things about school. To shawn, he's not really fond of school. He refers to school as "a friggin' zoo". One thing that Shawn said in the book about school being nice was his teachers. He has one main teacher and two teachers assistants. The teachers name is Mrs. Hare, the first teachers assistant's name is William, and the second teachers assistant's name is Becky. He says many things that he likes about them. On page 38, he says that "William is an incredibly nice guy. He's about fifty and real strong and big." William ended up breaking Shawn's arm, but not purposefully. Shawn was in the middle of a seizure, and he had fallen out of his wheelchair. If William hadn't grabbed his arm, Shawn could've had a fractured skull. It was better that Shawn had a broken arm than a fractured skull, because you never know if he could've died from a fractured skull. Moving on from William, Shawn likes Becky for a rather common dudish reason. To ease this out, he basically likes her because of her body and looks. When I saw that, I was like, 'WHAT IN THE WORLD?! TYPICAL DUDE WAYS!' I wasn't even surprised once I read that first sentence of that paragraph about her. Moving on from the Becky chick, Shawn thinks Mrs. Hare is "patient, nice, a little boring, but caring." This kind of shows that Shawn isn't very fond of Mrs. Hare as he is with William and Becky. Plus, he evens says that in the story. Just a little paraphrasing action right there and badabing badaboom! Well, check out my next blog to see one thing that Shawn isn't very fond about his school!
While reading the book, I started noticing that there were SO MANY tough questions Shawn kept on asking himself. So I figured, why not put them into my second paragraph?! On page 36 of the book, paragraph 2, Shawn asks himself a few tough questions such as.... "Are these memories of real things or imagined ones? Are your dreams real or imagined? You don't imagine a dream do you?" When Shawn was asking himself these questions, I was telling myself, ' I wish I knew him personally so that I could actually be able to tell him this stuff. But of course after reading the book because I don't think I would be able to tell him anything if I didn't know what he was thinking inside his mind. I hope one day to be able to know a person with the same condition as Shawn does. Even if he can't talk or move any parts of his body. I already know how Shawn feels due to reading the book. I can only imagine how other kids with the same condition feel.
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