November 26, 2017 - 00:25
The book 'Train Go Sorry' had alot of enlightening stories that put you into the shoes of different deaf children and how difficult it was for them to handle each of their different situations. Since I had learned about deaf culture previously, I learned about how hard it was to be deaf in a strictly-hearing world, so not many of these stories were a surprise to me. But reading through some of their struggles added a first person perspective that I hadn't known before and gave it a personal touch that I enjoyed. For example, in one of the earlier chapters, it said that "sometimes when teachers say 'I don't understand you,' they mena 'I'm ignoring you until you use words" and it made me think how easily some of the teachers gave up on the deaf students and took their miscommunication for low intelligence. After the teacher gave up trying to understand, the child then gave up adn stopped trying to communicate too. I knew that some people did really think that way, but it was sort of heartbreaking to read an actual situation where a student was affected by it. My favorite chapter was the one where a deaf child worked really hard to get a high score on the english regents; he had come from a troubled home and was struggling in school the year before but he came around and brought his best to the table. There was alot of suspense in the chapter, especially during his long, arduous testing period; even though I'm not deaf, I could relate to his stress towards the test and it kept me enthralled in the chapter.