After returning from her sick days Hannah suffers a relapse in development. This only slightly discourages Mary, who’s seen things like this all before. She encourages Hannah to keep learning, and slowly teaches her to read. Hannah and Mary write stories together, which are usually more like short poems, but are still stories to Hannah. Hannah learns a multitude of things, from how to ride a bike, to how to behave properly so as to keep her daily privileges. The latter a long, difficult lesson for everyone. After Hannah’s brother effectively assonates Hannah's mice through his cat, and Hannah reacts as Hannah normally would, she is quickly forced to behave properly at home, in addition to at school. Hannah's brother teases her, ridicules her, and sometimes physically abuses her. He tells her that she is a “retard”, who goes to “retard school”, saysshe has no friends, and bullies her constantly. Carl went as far as to put his cat in Hannah's room before she fell asleep, knowing it would kill her three pet mice, the only solace she had at home. In her shoes, I would have been sent away by the age of five. I absolutely can not put up with someone …show more content…
Mary goes back and forth between telling her story in present time, to have small informative sections, describing either a person, a place or occasionally a concept. She describes many people vividly, Henry the custodian, and Patty the teacher next door for example. As most authors would she takes small breaks from her regular writing to describe in detail a place, the dock they visited on a field trip, and the cemetery after it snows are two shining examples. The book is clearly intended for an older audience, but the vocabulary is simple, and the plotline is relatively easy to follow. I would definitely advise a friend to read this book, it teaches about patience, love and joy and these things are often forgotten when it comes to