Touch the top of the world

5- Comments
- The parents put Erik in school (starting kindergarten) but, the head administrator told his mother that she recommend her to take her son to a school for blind people because in this school we won’t treat him with special care.

- Ellen Suzanne (Erik mom) told the head administrator about her cousin was blind and went to a special school for blind. She said “my cousin can’t do anything by herself. She can’t peel an orange; she can’t mop or clean her bed. And what would happen if her parents died. Her parents help her do anything because the school she went to only taught her to use the piano. What would my son use the tune of a piano if he can do a lot of things?

- Erik was surprise of how she reacted and has courage of the things she said.

- Erik was thinking about the life his mom had when she was a teenager. She graduated from high school, she got raped, she had two kids with her first husband, her first husband was a alcoholic and hit her, her two sons and her moved, she worked in a factory for two years, met Erik father in a corps officer’s club, got married, and had birth to Eddi and then him (Erik).

- The schools accept Erik to the school. When he had his first quiz, his paper was full of scribbles and the teacher gave him a smile face. When he got home the mother saw his paper and was mad because the teacher gave him a smile face on the paper and the paper only had scribbles. She went to school, complaint and when they went home; the mom was showing him how to write.

4- Question
- Why Erik did was thinking back about her life when she was younger?
- Why the administrators did write a letter that he’s accepted?
- Why didn’t the mom just taught him before going the trouble to put him in a regular school?
- Why did the mom bring control to his world?
3- Vocabulary
- Queer = unusually
- Haphazardly = mere chance; fortuity
- Shimmered = a flickering or tremulous light; a glimmer
2- Literary term
- Simile = rise and shine like the morning sun.
- Imagery = Ellen Suzanne Baker had grown up in Jay, Florida, a hard-drinking, one-stoplight town near the border of Alabama.
1-Overview
- This part of the book is about when Erik got accepted to the school the mom wanted him to go, teaching him to write and learning where thing are and go plus, about the life of the mother when she was young.