Sandra Beasley, the Protagonist and the author of Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl, describes her struggle in life with her biggest enemy of allergies. The tone was pretty personal which better helps to take the reader in Beasley’s shoes. Descriptions of events were really detailed and the author’s writing style is pretty light-hearted and humorous. The author does not portray things as you would expect. She portrays having allergic reactions as something embarrassing rather than a serious life or death situation. She takes the reader through numerous amounts of obstacles from the early 1990s, when she was born, all the way to the twenty-first century. She describes it as “When I was born in 1980, the world was a small-town waitress: it did not know what to
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“no kisses, no hugs, no touch of a hand or mouth. From that point onward, anyone who touched me ran the risk of giving me hives, or worse.”(10) I have also learned that there are people that just do not know how serious an allergic reaction could be or how difficult it is to find safe food to consume- I was one of them. Once, when Sandra was on a weekend road trip, she stops at a rural Friendly’s and she said, “... something, anything, guaranteed free of milk, eggs, or lard—only to watch the waitress shrug helplessly—I’m not so sure.”And now I feel like the purpose of the book is to inform the reader to watch out for others like Beasley because anything you do could potentially kill another. Kissing loved ones or the smell of someone’s breath could all be simple ways to kill someone that is allergic. We all need to be careful about our actions, even if they do not seem harmful.
I would recommend this book to people who have serious allergies or have a friend with serious allergies because after reading this book, I felt informed as if I was in the life of those who had suffered. In the beginning of reading
“no kisses, no hugs, no touch of a hand or mouth. From that point onward, anyone who touched me ran the risk of giving me hives, or worse.”(10) I have also learned that there are people that just do not know how serious an allergic reaction could be or how difficult it is to find safe food to consume- I was one of them. Once, when Sandra was on a weekend road trip, she stops at a rural Friendly’s and she said, “... something, anything, guaranteed free of milk, eggs, or lard—only to watch the waitress shrug helplessly—I’m not so sure.”And now I feel like the purpose of the book is to inform the reader to watch out for others like Beasley because anything you do could potentially kill another. Kissing loved ones or the smell of someone’s breath could all be simple ways to kill someone that is allergic. We all need to be careful about our actions, even if they do not seem harmful.
I would recommend this book to people who have serious allergies or have a friend with serious allergies because after reading this book, I felt informed as if I was in the life of those who had suffered. In the beginning of reading