Friday, October 17, 2008

Outside reading 5

The Unspeakable Odyssey of the Motionless Boy written by Joshua Foer really brings you into the life and research gone into Erik Ramsey after his crash. Erik is one of those kids who was perfectly normal but gets unlucky one day. Even though he physically becomes different he still is the same deep down inside. A quote that really helps show this is "it might go faster if there's a pretty young women at Erik's arm helping him." This just shows that he is trying to impress the ladies just like everybody his age. Another example of this Erik spelling out Amanda. His family does not know what this means but is still shows how Erik feels toward women. From here you may be wondering why Erik? Why cna't it be the guy who just killed 3 people? The answer is he got unlucky but there was a reason for this to happen. I think the reason is that he will be a key to the future. This is because by Eric letting all this research be done on him he is letting the doctors to be able to communicate and maybe save people from this problem in the future. If you look at it this way Erik could be conisered a HERO.

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