The Silent Boy (Readers Circle)
by Lois Lowry
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Author: Lois LowryEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-01-11
ISBN: 0440419808
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
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Book Review: A Book That Strikes Close To Home
Summary: 5 Stars
Growing up I had a great uncle, my grandmothers brother who had a condition simular to Jacobs. He was born a normal boy in the 1920's but when he was around 4 or 5 he contracted a very bad case of measles. He was one of the rare cases that developed encephalitis or swelling of the brain. As such he suffered severe brain damage.
While my uncle didn't have the exact same symptoms as jacob, he dealt with the same type of prejudice from people who didn't understand him, who ridiculed him and over reacted to the things he did. And like Jacob he was institutionalized for it (though thankfully for only a short period of time).
This book deals heavily with those issues that face the way we treat the mentally handicapped even today. Told 80 years after the fact, it becomes clear that this was a defining issue in Katy's childhood, the one that made her realize that there is definate injustice in the world.
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