Touch the top of the world

5 - Comments
- The police knows Erik. The police was asking Erik about the whole lots of smoke pouring out the cracks on Erik garage. Erik said that there was nothing wrong in the garage but, the police don’t trust him. The police would want to check the garage but, Erik tells the police “do you need a warrant for this situation”.
- Chris dared Erik to moon the car and in that car was a van full of high school seniors. Erik was scared that if the seniors caught him mooning there car, that they will beat him up. That he imagine the high school seniors, twice the size of him wanted to get him
-The teacher gave Erik a tape record so he could hear the reading from the book. When he heard the section about sex, he was interested in that section. He couldn’t wait to read about “sex” (he use a special kind of tools that people that are almost blind, that cant see very well use to read). He took a tape recorder to detention and heard the section about “sex”.
- The people around Erik wanted to help Erik a of his problem. Some of the people wanted to help him to be more successful and some of them just wanted to help him. Erik was flatter but, he didn’t wanted this kind of things happening now, he just want a person like him to be a friend of him. A person like Erik would make Erik fell more better.
- Erik is worried that his friend would laugh at him because he is going on a handicap car. The driver told Erik that you cant see how the car looks like, that you don’t now what you are riding on. The next day, you would wave your friends goodbye and go in the car.
4 - Question
- Why did Erik didn’t wanted to be seen that he is taking the handicap car?
- Did Erik wanted the police man to know what was happening in the garage?
- Why did Erik said that the smoke smells like burning rubber?
- Does Erik really needs a friend that is like him?
3 - Vocabulary
- pursuers = To follow in an effort to overtake or capture; chase
- darted = To thrust or throw suddenly and rapidly.
- shuddered = To shiver convulsively, as from fear or revulsion
2 - Literary Terms
- simile = I imagined her huge legs squeezed into combustible green tights, steaming and groaning under the building pressure until, finally, fat and gristle explode through the hallway like shrapnel.
- simile = I had been standing on the side of the road, my pale butt glowing in the dark like a second moon.
1 - Overview
- This part of the book is about Erik learning to do things and experience things that he never though of by his blindness.