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Over this week I read a novel by the award winning author Sharon M Draper. Draper has been nominated for Coretta Scott King Award for Authors and John Steptoe New Talent Award. Needless to say she is a very accomplished author. I read the New York Times bestseller Out of my Mind. First of all, Out of my Mind is about an eleven year old girl named Melody. Melody was born with cerebral palsy and was declared retarded and mentally handicapped at a young age. During the exposition of the book the future did not look bright for Melody, and her family decided to enroll her at Spaulding Street Elementary school. Although Melody was consider retarded she is actually very wise and has an amazing memory. However, she did not learn much at school leading into the …show more content…
Not everyone accepted Melody at school and most students just pretended that she wasn’t even there “Kids for the most part, ignore kids like me.”(28) Fortunately, Melody found Medi-Talker a computer device that allowed Melody to say what was on her mind by typing. Her class was astonished when Melody started to use the Medi-Talker, they couldn't believe that she had things to say that is when the book hits the climax. When it was time to select the Whiz-Kids team (a group of talented children that compete) Melody audition and made the team with flying colors. With Melody on the team the Whiz-Kids were able to win every competition leading up to the national level in Washington DC. Sadly, Melody was left out of the plan to go to DC when her classmates and teacher “forgot” to tell her about the earlier flight(falling action) “I tried to pretend like I didn’t care. I blinked really hard and faced the wall…That made the tears fall for real”(267) As Melody and her Mom were heading to school one morning her Mom was backing up the car and failed to see her daughter Penny following. Melody tried to tell her Mom that Penny was behind that car but her Mom couldn’t understand
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