She literally wakes up one morning and is unable to see. That is, until the day Natalie has prayed would never happen occurs. She finds the Brailler machine hard to use. She can't tell the difference in the Braille dots. Natalie is resistant to what the school wants to teach her. There's even a sign above her bed that says "Makes own bed." It angers Natalie. And some of the kids at the school require a lot more help. Natalie considers herself different than everyone else. So, with reluctance, she is sent off to the blind school in Baltimore. The doctor tells her that one day, she could wake up and be completely blind. There is nothing more they can do for Natalie, and now, it's best she be prepared. Having endured multiple surgeries and continuous eye drops, Natalie prays that she won't go totally blind.īut a few weeks before school is to start, she receives the worst possible news. Born without irises, the part that controls the amount of light allowed into the eye, the pressure is continuing to grow. When she was about eight, she started to stumble and walk into things. And I really don't like being beaten over the head with these "moral" lessons and things that teens ALREADY know is bad for them. I respect the author for wanting to raise awareness about blindness, but this was 95 percent informative and 5 percent actual novel. So, I found Blindsided to be extremely disappointing. And if cutters are so desperate for attention than why do they HIDE their cuts with long sleeves and bracelets? Sorry. I have friends who have been cutters and I can say that cutting is not "a little juvenile" phase. But one quote that really got my blood boiling was the one that one student said about her cutting. "Oh!, so and so is blind because he wanted to get high off choking themselves!". And then there was the issue of the choking game. First, there was a minor detail about the students wanting guns to be illegal and adding "Oh, so and so, is blind because someone shot him in the head. It seemed like the author had a bit of an agenda. I understand that she was the main character, but the author should have given the supporting characters more to do.īlindsided also seemed a bit too preachy for me as in telling "Look! This is what happens when you do these bad things!" and it came off condescending. There was also very little development to the other characters besides Natalie. In fact, the book just dragged on because very little actually happened after you remove the informative part. There's very little that happens besides informing you of what blindness is like.
It tells you sort of what it's like to lose your vision.
That being said, I think that Blindsided is one of those books where the overall plot doesn't reach the potential that it can.īlindsided is a very educational book. And then to completely lose it while you're a teenager must make it that much harder to adapt with everything else that goes on in your life. It must be especially difficult for someone who is used to having vision and then slowly lose it. I honestly can't even imagine how it is to be blind. I really liked the premise of Blindsided.
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