The War That Saved My Life Analysis

There’s A Girl in There!

Disability has been a struggle for many people. Easter Seals once said, “The worst thing about disability is that people see it before they see you.” Easter Seals believes that when people have disabilities others see what is on the outside or they notice your disability first. Furthermore, there is more to a person than their disability. They have personality and feelings like everyone else. Dealing with a disability is hard, for those reasons, but if people are treated only by their ability. things are not better. In both stories, Out of My Mind and The War That Saved My Life, the authors Sharon M. Draper and Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, gets a thought to the reader that people with disabilities are misunderstood or mistreated. Melody, in Out of My Mind, is smart, but nobody cares to realize because most people think people with disabilities are
Ada, is one of many that struggles from a physical disability called, club foot. Her foot is twisted so that automatically means that she is different, that she is crippled. Though she may have a difference she also has similarities. One example from the book The War that Saved My Life that shows how Ada does not understand why she is that different is when Ada does not understand why her mother doesn't love her. Ada’s mom is not kind, most mothers would not treat daughters this way but Ada’s mom is abusive. In the story, Ada thinks, “And even if it felt like Mom hated me, she had to love me, didn’t she? She had to love me, because she was my mam...” Because of this thought, I then realized that Ada believes that she is not that different her mother should not be unloving just because of her disability. But her mother is unloving, because the mother is abusive. Ada is mistreated and treated differently because of her disability, a lot of the time people judge others by their differences, they should really understand there are similarities