Mymuna Hossain 11/3/11
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Social action question # 3: who’s perspective is missing?
Title: Rules Author: Cynthia lord
In the book, rules by Cynthia lord the main character are Catherine. All she ever wanted was a normal life. Of course she doesn’t get a normal life in her perspective. Her little brother has autism, she has always helped in every way she can. She even wrote down rules for David. I think she has a really normal life and she should be happy.
The perspective that is missing in this book is their father. He never talks about if he was happy or not. So you can’t really tell if he’s even there for them. We get mostly Catherine’s perspective and how she feels & thinks about stuff. Her mother’s perspective is also visible, and you can see how she feels about her son. The only one who you couldn’t even tell was there was the dad. I think the author wanted his perspective to stay out because it would become a little too emotional. Also Catherine thinks the world only revolves around David but the author probably wanted to keep that out to prove it wrong. That’s why the author also kept the fathers perspective out.
All in all, the fathers perpective was the one that was missing after all. Authors have a reason for doing what they did. I can only guess and come up with the reason for the missing perspective but I can’t prove why. It was a really good book and I really enjoyed reading this book. I learned so much from characters perpectives. Also I figured out what happens when one of them are missing!
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