Argumentative Essay on Out Of My Mind Should Be On The Year 7 Reading List

📌Category: Books, Education, School
📌Words: 669
📌Pages: 3
📌Published: 25 June 2021

How would you feel if you couldn’t walk, couldn’t talk, couldn’t express your thoughts? This is the reality for 11-year-old Melody Brooks. She’s the most intelligent kid in school, but nobody knows it. No one can know it. Everyone just sees her as the girl with cerebral palsy, the freak. When Melody finds a way to communicate, a chance to finally share her thoughts and knowledge, not everyone around her is happy to hear them. I strongly believe that Out of my Mind should be on the year 7 reading list. It is a novel that makes you want to read more and predict what is going to happen next, shows the different views people with special needs, and people in their lives have, and educates people about the discrimination all people with problems or disabilities experience in their lives.

The first reason I believe Out of My Mind should be on the year 7 reading list is because it is enthralling and engaging. It puts a play on your emotions and causes you to hope for the protagonist, Melody, to feel content and get what she desires. A survey was completed and 90% of students surveyed stated that they experienced some sort of emotional connection to Out of My Mind. When you start to learn more about Melody, you begin to root for her and hope that she proves everyone wrong and finds who she truly is, a quality in a novel which makes Out of My Mind a perfect fit for the reading list. This book creates emotional connections with the reader and keeps them on edge, wanting to read more, which other year 7s would want to experience whilst reading a novel.

Another reason which I think this novel would be a great fit for the reading list is because it displays the different perspectives people with disabilities have and how others view people with special needs. It displays Melody’s emotions and the difficulty she has to experience in her everyday life. Not only does it show the protagonist's point of view, but it also presents the thoughts which go on in other people’s heads. This novel gives you a reality check about how others with disabilities feel towards various actions and shows that they are not all that they seem. Out of my Mind won New York Times Bestselling Novel for many weeks, which shows how popular the book is. Out of My Mind shows the various opinions and views people share on those with special needs and helps to learn to display empathy towards those who are different.

My final reason as to why this book deserves to belong on the reading list is because it educates and informs readers on the discrimination and injustice people with disabilities experience in their everyday lives. The novel identifies inequality and narrow-mindedness people who have any disability, especially those who have cerebral palsy, face. It shows how people do judge a book by its cover, which is displayed throughout most of the book. This book will make you recognise the discrimination which goes on in our world and can even make you want to change your behaviour and your view on people with special needs. As research shows, ‘about 1 in 4 people with a disability will face at least one incident of discrimination every day.’ Out of My Mind provides an important role in educating people to hopefully reduce this statistic. This novel informs and advises all about the injustice and poor assumptions made about those who have special needs of all shapes and sizes, and would educate all those in the year 7 cohort about this inequality.

Have you ever read a book that makes you feel like it has influenced your life on a visible level and you just can’t imagine not having read it? This is how both I have felt, and you will feel when you read this novel. It is gripping and develops emotional connections with the characters and their situations, displays the thoughts and views disabled people experience, and others experience about them and identifies the injustice and discrimination which is heavily involved in all those with special needs’ lives. I strongly believe Out of My Mind belongs on the year 7 reading list and many of those here would thoroughly enjoy reading this novel.

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