Seeing And Believing Analysis

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To be a person who is original, creative with their thinking, and coming up with new ways to solve the situation is to be innovative. You have to be capable of learning new things, being able to figure new ways and strategies. These strategies are unique, creative and original, that allow the way of thinking to be more advanced. Mike from the novel, Seeing and Believing demonstrates his knowledge by visualizing the Young female, Vin his best friend described to him as spiky black hair, pierced ring on his eyebrow, spider tattoo on her left arm and brown hair. “So, you have a better idea?” (Seeing and Believing, Page 142-143). Mike and his girlfriend Rebecca were bickering back and forth arguing about whose idea were best on finding …show more content…
This book shows Mike´s kindness towards others, his love for his foster parent Riel. Mike keeps his feelings private at the beginning of the book, but as he gets more comfortable and starts to realize he needs to share his feelings with someone else, by the end of the book. Mike was told by the detectives one day that his friend Sal was in the hospital from last night. Sal had got beaten up brutally by the two guys how robbed the convenience store that Cecilia Lee worked at. That same day the detectives told Mike that they put out the robbery on crime stoppers and it’ll be in the paper and on local tv. Mike didn't know what to say to the information he was told “I hope it helps” (Seeing and Believing, pages 99,100,101). Later that day in had turned out that the whole school knew what happened to Sal expect Mike and Rebecca because they were at the funeral of Cecilia Lee. Rebecca asked him if was going to see Sal at the hospital Mike spoke: “Yeah, Sal was my friend, too, even if we haven't been getting along that great lately and even if he didn't think he was my friend I want to go see him”. Before they went to the hospital they stopped at 7-Eleven to buy Sal’s favorite magazine (Seeing and Believing, page 106). As they arrived at the hospital Mike and Rebecca saw Sal lying down on a Gurney, brutally beaten. Imogen was lying beside Sal gripping his left hand in tears. Sal

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