Touch the top of the world

5- Comments
- When Erik dad was teaching him how to ride a two wheel bike, the mom stared at Erik. When he was riding the bike, the mom didn’t smile or said “I’m proud of you”. When he fell and hurt himself of the bike, the mom went running towards him and yells at the father. She is over protective to him because he is blind (sort of).

- When it was almost Halloween (one day before Halloween) a group of child was about to go with Erik but, the parents (the group’s parents) thought that he would be a lot of responsibility. He didn’t have a costume so his mom stayed up all night making a Quasimodo costume for him. But, when he put on that costume, he felt that he was a real Quasimodo.

- When the doctor told them how he got it, Erik told his mom “thanks a lot” because the disease came from the side of his mother. The mother started to cry and went to the bathroom to clean herself and to be alone. He didn’t mean it. When she came back, he gave her a big hug but, she sat in the table without saying a word.

- His mom is teaching him how to do different thing about camp. Learning what is what.

- The doctor gave monocular to Erik so that he could see well. When they gave him that, he could see half of the movie star was but he still needed to seat on top of the row.

4- Questions
- Why didn’t the mother show happiness to his son when he was riding the bike by himself?
- Why Erik did said “he felt like a real Quasimodo?
- Why did the mom stayed quiet when Erik apologized to her when he said thanks a lot for the disease?
- Why Erik did said Thank a lot for the disease?

3- Vocabulary
- Systematically = In a systematic manner; methodically
- Congenital = Of or pertaining to a condition present at birth, weather inherited or caused by the enviroment, esp. the uterine enviroment.
- Immensely = Vast; huge; very great: an immense territory.

2- Literary Terms
- Simile = My father was like a broom, sweeping me out into the world, while my mother was the dustpan, constantly gathering up the shattered pieces and putting me back together again.
- Personification = Her face slowly metamorphosed into a mother lioness. She clenched her jaw and flashed an angry glance at my father before she rushed to me, throwing her arms around me and hurrying me down the hallway to the medicine closet.
1-Overview
This part of the story is about when Erik gets his monocular so he could see more.