Author’s Note: Mindblind is a story that I will never forget. It is about a boy that has Asperger’s and he goes through things that not all teenagers go through. It is emotional for him and his friends as they go through bad times and extraordinary times together.
Do you wish that your mind was like a computer? You could store all of your memories on an imaginary j-drive. You would know a ton of facts and information about everything. This is how 14 year old Nathaniel Clark spends his entire life. He is a talented young man with Asperger’s Syndrome. Asperger’s Syndrome is a disorder where a person lacks communication skills but it’s not autism. Physical clumsiness is also common in Asperger’s. In Mindblind, Nathaniel battles his disorder and figures out why he is here.
Jenifer Roy, the author of Mindblind, made the main point of the book is that even people with disabilities can do great things. Nathaniel writes a song about math, one of his strong spots, with his band. Soon this video goes viral and becomes a big hit on YouTube. The author put this as a special part in this book to get her main point across. She did a fantastic job of putting the main point in, because other readers understand why she wrote the book. Jenifer Roy has great ideas on how to connect the main point of the book to what the characters do. It isn’t completely random, it actually makes sense. Teenagers around the country can relate to Nathaniel. They all have ups and downs in life, but soon things will turn out right.
Jenifer Roy did a great job of making the characters and their emotions and personalities. I understood each of the character’s personalities, what they did, and why. The author also did an excellent job of connecting all of the characters in a way that at the end, everything came together. All of the characters, all of the things they did, and the different memories that the main character had.
There is a very important part in the book Mindblind that has to do with these connections with the characters. Nathaniel’s dad makes him go to a party, and while he is there he gets drunk. While he is drunk, he sees things that make him mad. This is where some of the connections with the characters comes in. After he passes out, his friends talk to him and explain what happened. Nathaniel learns that everything that he thinks was bad, was actually a good thing and he freaked out over nothing. His friend’s “boyfriend” really turned out to be her cousin that Nathaniel had first met many years ago. He soon forgives and forgets about the problems they had between each other. That is a connection with characters that is really important in the book Mindblind.
The author did an amazing job of distinguishing the things that happen in this book. She put an image in my head of everything that was going on or what the character’s emotions were, or how they felt. Jenifer Roy also made sure that all the important details were noticed, so she made a character do something to make sure that her reader would understand that it was important. I admire which particular details that she chose to put the story together on.
Everything in this book made me realize that kids can do anything, as long as they can figure out what is going on. So many books have situations like Nathaniel’s, but the author made this book better than any of those similar books. Jenifer Roy did a fantastic job of composing this book. I recommend this book to anyone who likes any kind of book, because this book has everything in it.
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