Emma's Reaction.

                                

In the book Blind, Emma Sasha Silver the main character suffers from an accident of her being blind, which causes her to have a lot of confusion with not only herself but with others & frustration. In the book her family tried to help her overcome and help her adjust with the incident she had suffered. In the book Emma has a hard time trying to accept the fact of her being blind along with many personality issues. Her family as well has a rather had time adjusting so they try their best in finding ways that they could help. In one scene of the book her father tries to convince her that going back to school was something that had to be done sooner or later, her mother on the other hand said with time she could go back when she felt ready. With frustration Emma replies angrily or with frustration, "I'm not going anywhere"  and sends her dad off with a feeling no parent wants to be given which is not being wanted in general nor the help. I question myself why she would respond this way to her parents because I get that out of frustration she might have said the things she said and gave them that feeling, but why would you want to reject or deny help from someone else that actually really cares about you? Why didn't she give it off to other people who maybe we're just showing pity? That is just a question that pops up in my head every now and then, because a lot of people are like that, but many don't suffer from the same incident Emma did. 

You Will Never See Me Fall & Blind.

The book Blind by Rachel Dewoskin and the poem You Will Never See Me Fall by Joyce Alcantara both contain a type of thought where both of these authors had the idea of them giving up, wasn't going to be in the picture. The book contains a 15 year old girl who suffers from the incident of her being blind, in the poem it says no where that she/he is also blind, but not stating it doesn't mean it isn't implied to that person too. In both writings they both struggled, with reading the book Blind, Emma was suffering with her adapting to the new lifestyle she had to get used to because of the situation she was in. Not clearly being stated what struggles the person in the poem was going thru, but as said " you may see me struggle, but you will NEVER see me fall" states that she must've been going for thru her own type of problems but not maybe alike to Emma's obstacles. Comparing those two, I found that they both struggle but try to not have the world "fall" or "give up" in the picture. They might've had different type of problems, but both "struggle" and don't give up.

Center Of Blind

                                      

The book Blind by Rachel Dewoskin, gives you the opportunity to read about the experience of another. In the book Emma suffers from an accident where a fun celebration turns into a never ending  dark, nightmare. Emma & her father were celebrating the fourth or July watching fire works close, but a little to close. Unfortunately, Emma had been hit with one of the fireworks that had been lit, and not only feel then pain among her face, but losing her sight. " Where am I?" " What is - Take this off!"she said to herself as she laid in the hospital bed the following day. Not being able to see her parents but hear them say " you're awake; Emma you're okay, youre, Emma. Emma. Emma". From then on "progress" was what she was doing. Attempting to go back to school, adapt to the many changes that had came her way due to this incident. With the help of her parents, siblings and her friends she over time is able to accept and adapt. Not giving up would just be a plain simple theme, so all in all the message I was able to get from this story was even though times get rough, to keep trying & with time things can fall into place with your effort and the help of others. Without Emma's parents or family & close friends, Emma would've just gotten angry with herself and always questioning herself why that incident has happened to HER, but she didn't. So Emma became her own person, and was also able to find herself again.

Déjà Vu

In the book Blind by Rachel Dewoskin, something that seems to always come to Emma's mind is the money. If her parents were spending too much, if they'd have enough for the rest of her siblings, "Worth four laptops?". Emma kept thinking that her sister was just complaining to rub it in her face or since she didn't agree that the man that has stepped on to speak with Emma's parents was hot. "The best" for Emma wanted to be provided due to her accident, and Emma felt thankful but worried again because she had other siblings her parents needed to worry about & provide certain things. Flashbacks would come back where she never noticed if they were struggling to provide those certain things for her siblings or her. With the accident then did she only realize that she had two amazing parents & she couldn't be more thankful. Even though her siblings would try bringing up the fact of the money being used for her supplies, she would try to ignore them due to the fact her mother moment after moment would always tell her to not even worry about it. Those memory moments say a lot because she might have had some adjusting to do and gave to realize a lot that was going on around her that she didn't realize before, but now? She couldn't be more thankful & aware.

Limiting Anne.

Anne Frank thirteen years old went on living three more years of her life living in an attic with her family, another and a 50 year old man. From day to night having restraints if the time, the things they were able to do at a certain time. She had to restrain herself, from being herself due to the fact of if the green police were to find them, her and her family would've been sent to concentration camps, or be punished severely for hiding and not giving when they called. Anne and me would have nothing in common with the adversity she faced, because she had limits and thanks to now having laws that are able to give me my freedom I am able to do things she could not do, and feeling but but glad at the same time I can do those things. I wouldn't have been able to do what she done. So she was courageous and something similar would be that we tried seeing these in positive ways even if they weren't all good at the moment. Anne and me, are two very different people. Thane grew up with two very different lifestyles, both good, and bad.

Inside & Out.

         

                     

Emma Sasha Silver, a teenager from "Blind" who'd lost not only her sight but herself. Emma losing her sight was a problem, but not the only one she faced. Inside shed feel as if she saw herself as a whole new person, not recognizing who she once was, she said " sometimes the accident seems like the beginning of my entire life. I can't fully remember who I was before". With that being said, she states herself that she couldn't recall who she once was, and she felt as if she wasn't "Emma" anymore. On the outside, her parents encouraging and trying to have the right amount of patience to have Emma have the courage to go back to school, Emma has a hard time trying to accept that she is actually not going to be able to see again for a while, and she began talking back to her parents. Just a normal discussion could lead to swearing, and frustration for Emma while her parents on the other hand as she could feel, would feel down or feel bad the way she was acting, but they understood that her situation would take some getting used to and they had to have patience. Those internal and external conflicts, seems tough so far. Hopefully, they get better overtime and Emma finds her identify.

By & Upstanding

I believe that the up standers said something and did something about what was occurring with the extermination camps, with the loss of families and loved relatives/friends, because they saw and probably wanted to do something about it because they had nothing to lose. The bystanders probably just stood aside and did nothing about it due to the fact of being scared and risking what they had left, like their lives or family. Something that made them stand up and resist to the Nazi's was religious beliefs, they would resist to the actions the nazis were doing. Something I could have done was speak up and gather people to prove that point, but at the same time resist the fact of being killed. That's what after reading this unit made me think & reflect.