Jodi Picoult House Rules Analysis

The author of the book House Rules had a specific purpose for the book and also had an intended audience. Jodi Picoult states in her section of House Rules “Conversation with Jodi Picoult” that “people who didn’t understand,” reported her aunt for abuse because they did not know why she was retraining her son (Picoult). People commonly assumed that there was abuse or malicious intent of her aunt, but realistically her aunt was helping the child by not letting him harm himself during one of his meltdowns. The book was written to bring out some information and insight into Asperger’s syndrome. The author is able to put a face on the condition of Asperger’s and that allows readers to build a connection and better understanding. There is a lot of misunderstanding about Asperger’s and the purpose of this book is to show people what living with someone with this disability is like. …show more content…
The text shows readers some of the real-life actions of a child who is affected with the disability and it shows if there was more understanding of the disability the main characters situation never would have occurred. So, by reading the text in the novel and the text from the author one can conclude that the purpose of the novel is to create understanding about children who have been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. The target audience can also be seen by examining the previous quote from Picoult. Her target audience was the people in society who do not understand what Asperger’s syndrome is like. The goals of the novel was to instill understanding about Asperger’s syndrome and the target audience is anyone who does not understand