Comparing 'Radio And Stuck In Neutral'

Do you know someone with a disability? As a class, we have been learning about different types of disabilities. First we read a book called Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman which was a book about a fictional character named Shawn McDaniel who has Cerebral Palsy. Then after we read this book, we watched a movie called Radio. This movie is a true story about a man with a developmental disability who became a valuable member of a high school football team. In this paper, I will compare and contrast the book Stuck in Neutral to the movie Radio. In addition to this, I will discuss my own experiences with “doing the right thing” as well as how my viewpoint on disability has changed after we watched and read these stories. Radio and Stuck in Neutral are similar and different in many different ways. A similarity that is in both stories is, the …show more content…
Some evidence of this in the movie “Radio” is, Jonny’s Dad wants to kick Radio off the team because, he thinks Radio is a distraction. In Stuck in Neutral, Shawn’s dad is possibly thinking about killing Shawn because he thinks that Shawn’s seizures are painful for him. Another similarity in the book and the movie is both fathers are not in the family when the story takes place. In “Radio”, the dad had a heart attack and has passed away , but in “Stuck in Neutral”, the father has a divorce. He still provides for the family financially. Another similarity is, that both Shawn and Radio aren't treated like people by other certain people's standards. In Radio, Jonny and his group of friends do not see Radio as a normal person, and in “Stuck in Neutral”, he is