Summary Of True Biz

The author of True Biz, Sara Novi, explores the impact of deafness on the connection between parents and children through emotions, actions, and quarrels. In the novel, Charlie is having conflicts with her mother as she is forbidden from learning sign language and is forcing her to improve her English speaking skills. As the story progresses, Charlie’s parents divorce and she attends deaf school upon her father’s permission. Later on, Charlie’s cochlear implant electrocutes her and her mother is persistent in making her get a new one, which frustrates Charlie. On the other hand, Austin is in a loving, mostly deaf family and communication is never a concern. That is until his hearing sister Sky is born and conflict begins building up. Lastly,

Charlie is gravely hurt by the cochlear implant but when she visits the doctor with her mother, she is irritated with her mother as the mother wants to give cochlear implants another chance. Upon meeting her father, Charlie storms off because she believes that, “He wouldn't stop her mother when it came down to it. but whatever it [is], it all [adds] up to another hole in Charlie's head”(339). Charlie here is demonstrating the hopelessness that she is in knowing that no one has her back and can assist her against her mother. She is confident that her father will cower when her mother confronts him, and that there is no point in wasting her energy. Retaliating towards her mother, Charlie takes drugs and is taking part in unethical doings. She is showing that if no one is there to back her up, then she will attempt to make a greater impact. Austin is known amongst his peers to have a powerful connection with his whole family with deafness acting as the thread of connection, but is then broken with a hearing family member. Unlike Charlie, Austin’s family is accepting, rather proud of their Deafness/deafness and is a model Deaf family to his

That’s of course without asking if Eliot even wanted to cure his hearing. The cult members and the people hold Eliot down and begin their way of treatment. Their way of treatment is that, “They poured something in his ear and it was scalding, slick, and razed through him”(357). The mother's pain and trauma from the accident caused her to be mentally unstable and caused harm to her son. It also prevents her from fulfilling her role as a mother when she stops thinking about her feelings. She believes that deafness was what broke their family and even though the oil “razed through Eliot” she isn’t trying to put an end to it. Concluding, at the end of True Biz, Charlie, Austin, and Eliot collaborate to create an influential protest for their parents and adults in general. Charlie takes inspiration from the original DPN protest and encourages the others to join her and take action. Though, February catches them in action, she protects them and shows a sense of support. Upon February’s action in response to the situation, the children quietly followed her directions and don’t