Expository Essay On Life, Animated

The book that I chose to read is called Life, Animated. I never thought that I would like a biography. This book is about an autistic boy named Owen and his life. It starts off at around the time that he is diagnosed with autism at age 3. He seemed like a very normal boy until he wasn’t then he started to regress. After talking to many doctors they start to develop what they would call ‘team Owen’ (Suskind, 2014). This is a team of doctors and tutors that help Owen grow. The story goes though the major parts of his life such as having to be home schooled in ‘Patch of Heaven’ school, to making it into high school, his first time being bullied and an after high school transition program and later when he meets Emily.
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They never gave up on their son and painstakingly carved out a path for their son’s life. I really appreciated that Walt, Owen’s older brother had a struggle of his own when he was with Owen. He tried to get away with having a party by telling Owen “Not tell them. We okay with that? You’re not lying to them. There is just no reason they need to know.” (Suskind, 2014). His parents also used that mentality to get Owen to tell them about the party by saying “… forget about a party. We don’t care about that… were there any grils in the house Saturday night?... lots of girls?” (Suskind, 2014). It was pretty amazing because shortly after I read this passage a special needs child was refusing to go in after recess. He climbed to the top of the slide and would not come down. The other Aids were telling him that he needed to have lunch. I told them I would like to try and I went up and asked the boy if he was having fun and if he would like to slide down the slide with me. Then it became a game and we held hands going down the slide then walked into the school. I tried what Owen’s parents tried by not mentioning what they wanted but finding another way to get the answer. It was very cool how it seemed to work so well.