Stuck in Neutral is about a boy named Shawn that has a disease called CP. Shawn can't talk or move his body. His family is going though a rough time dealing with this disease. Shawn's mother talks to him like he is a baby and Shawn hates it. He can understand everything but most people think he can't. Also Shawn thinks his father is going to kill him. Every little thing his father does Shawn things thats a sign of him getting ready to kill him.
While I was reading this novel, I really connected with Shawn in this situation. During the book Shawn was having troubles with his family and with his disease. How I connect is whenever I get sick my mom thinks I'm going to like die because she thinks I'm really sick that I need to go to the hospital. My mom always over does it. One thing that I cannot connect with is when Shawn thinks his father is going to kill him. I would never think about my father killing me because of a disease I had, I think he would be in the situation with me.
I thought this book was good for middle school students to read because it involved a boy that was my age and I can understand where he is coming from. In this book Stuck in Neutral I thought it was interesting because it gave good clues and great details like describing the situation or part in the story. In the story my favorite part was when at the end the dad and Shawn had a talk and they actually got to understand eachother. The author did a great job writing the book I really didn't have any troubles with it and could understand it.
Readers:
How do you think Shawn dealt with the disease? How would you feel about this situation?
How would you get your mind off something that was bothering you?
This sounds like a really good book, you did a really good job on this!
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ReplyDeleteGood job on the details!
ReplyDeleteNice jobs making connections.
ReplyDeleteI like the way you connected to the story and you explained what you would do if you were in the characters shoes. Also, you did a good job in explaining the background information. I think that if I was in the some situation I would feel the same way that the character felt. But I don't think I would read this book it didn't really catch my eye.
ReplyDeleteThis is really sad because his father is going to kill him cuz of a disease also sad because everybody thinks that he can't hear cuz he can't move or speak. But this looks like a really good book
ReplyDeleteI really like the connections and all the details
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