Journey Into The Death World Chapter 4 Analysis

Personally, prior to reading chapter four in the text Journey Into The Death World, I never thought about what it might like as a death baby and in terms of developmental milestones. Reading this chapter gave me a lot of information of this death babies and I realized that there are more similarities than differences in the development of a hearing child and a death one. One thing that shocked me is when the author mentioned that a deaf child can sign up to fifteen different words by age 2. In my opinion they have an advantage over the hearing ones in this regard. I have to agree with the author when he mentioned that ASL is a language because if it was not it would not be difficult. There is proper sentence structure like any other language and there is subject and verb agreement. I always thought of sign language of being pictorial which would make it easy to learn because all the individual had to do is point to a picture of the object and it would allow other s to understand the message that was being conveyed. I got a rude awakening when I attended my first class and I found got that ASL is not at all what I imagined. …show more content…
There are jobs that are advertised and ASL is a requirement of acquiring these jobs. This must be good news for the Deaf community because for too long they have thought to let the public know that it is a real language, and they are not being forced to speak E- Another reason why it is good news for that community is the fact that they are being accepted as normal functioning people with their own language; and just as there are interpreters of other languages, so too there must be interpreters for the ASL community as