Aimee Bender has a way of captivating a reader and telling real life problems with fairy tale like characters. Aimee Bender uses characters like pumpkin heads in her stories. I think she does this because she does not want to make the character someone specific, such as a minority or someone with a disease. I think she likes to leave her stories open to interpretation and tries to teach morals without pinpointing specific people in society.
The story that i liked the most was Ironhead. It was a very emotional story and i believe it did a very good job in showing a common problem in society and how terrible it can be. I personally believe that the ironhead was born with a disease. You could tell from looking at him that he was not normal (because he had an iron head) but his parents did not know how to treat the problem. His parents tried to comfort him as much as they could. Ironhead could not sleep and he longed to be with people who understood him. The kids at school all thought he would be tough and athletic because he had an iron head but he was the exact opposite. I think when he went to the hardware store by the other irons it showed how he longed to be understood. When his mom asked him about it he just says nothing. I think that this is showing how he has given up hope. He asks to stay home from school because he knows that life will never get better and he has given up. I think that he turned his head away from the TV as a sign that he had given up.
The lesson that i got from this is that children with disabilities need to be provided with special care. If their needs are not met their lives could take a turn for the worse and could end horribly.
Steven W
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