Dyslexia In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

Dyslexia is a disability of the brain. The disease causes the affected person to not be able to properly read and write. This happens because the brain mixes up and confuses letters. Each case is different in the letters, numbers, or words that get confused. Dyslexia can happen to anyone as it can be genetic or caused by certain environmental factors. It is, however, treatable, and I was lucky enough to be able to guide a close friend through her endeavor with the wordy beast. I never would have imagined helping someone else with their disability would also improve my reading ability. "I can't do it," she cried as she failed to correctly interpret the words of the book we were both reading on our separate ends of the phone. I continued to encourage her and told her that I knew she could do it and began to develop a plan. Little did she know, determination struck within me to see her succeed. I was a sophomore in high school, while she was a junior and with that came specific obligations such as endless hours of reading whatever literary wonder her teacher's lesson plans demanded. Our first battle was the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. “He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch," she read in a thick, childish voice of the character narrating, "and chain, a pair of …show more content…
Sometimes, I would do all or most of the reading, and at other times, she would do the bulk of the reading while I helped her with the words that perplexed her. As we continued with our reading plan, and I continued assisting her with words and their pronunciations, I found that I had become a better reader. Because we had discussed our reading, I had also gained more advanced reading comprehension. Later, we also found out the reason for her difficulties…dyslexia, which a professor discovered during her freshman year in