Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
Monday, April 29, 2013
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I Absolutely loved this book! I like learning more about Marcelo and reading it from his point of view of things. I liked how he tried to help the girl in the picture. I also thought it was cool how his special interest was religion.
It was an okay book. I didn't like it that much because I just don't read this style. My preferred genre contains many more explosions. Other than that is was good. Every thing that Marcelo explains sounds perfectly reasonable, until it is said out loud. I need to point this out though, Wendell, I mean seriously, how low can you get? Not as low as Wendell here. I liked how Marcelo slips into third person when he talks, I used to know a kid who spoke in third person, and he was pretty cool. So uuhhh .... yeah.
MARCELO IN THE REAL WORLD is an astonishing book. I loved reading it and reading about the struggles Marcelo faces as he is put to work in the law firm. Working at the law firm is not what he wants. What he really wanted was to go work with the ponies the entire summer. This may be what he wants, but when being black mailed about going to a public high school instead of Patterson; the choice is easy to make. His father wants the best for him, and getting to work with “normal,” people in his eyes is what’s best for his son. What he wanted happens but not in the way he expected. Marcelo meets new people, some nicer than others; like Jasmine. She understood that Marcelo works at a much slower pace, and even though she would rather have a faster assistant like Marcelo's father promised, they develop a bond and become closer than they thought they ever would. Jasmine shows him a new way of life and helps him in so many ways. Wendell, on the other hand is the complete opposite. He takes advantage of the bond Marcelo has with Jasmine to try and get what he wants. That doesn’t last long because Marcelo refuses to help him, but instead helps another girl who had serious facial injury in a car wreck due to faulty windshield. This girl completely changes things. It changes how Marcelo thinks and brings some much needed karma to the law firm.
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