Book Reflection: One Child By Torey Hayden

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Saicy Lytle AGED 2300 Frost, Gilliam, Ruiz Book Reflection The book we read in this class was “One Child” by Torey Hayden. I had many thoughts and felt many emotions while reading this book. Part of me was frustrated and angry with the was Sheila behaved. She lite another child on fire, what kind of person does that? Other situations, where she stabbed Torey with a pencil, I thought how does someone begin to think that is okay? Yet, another part of me felt incredibly sorry for Sheila. She never asked to live that life, she was simply playing the cards she was dealt. Reading this book made me think back to my time in elementary school. When I was in fifth grade, we would always leave lunch as the Kindergarten students were starting their lunch period. My teacher made us walk a roundabout way to leave the cafeteria one day, and we walked right past the little table of kindergarten students. As I walked by this one girl, Emily, she tried to stab me with her fork for no apparent reason. I had never spoken to Emily. I had never even really seen other anther than just passing her in the halls, yet she tried to stab me. As I got older, I realized that Emily had many mental health problems. Her home life was not a good one. She really did not have anyone to take care of her when she was not at school. …show more content…

Would I run away like her mom did? Would I not treat her so well, like her dad did? Of course not. When special needs children are born, how do their families handle it? Some parents, in my opinion, do a great job. They treat their child like nothing was wrong—how it should be. However, on the flip side, there are parents who love their children less because they were born with a

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