These are a few things I like Sharon Draper’s book, “Out of my Mind.”
Sharon Draper is descriptive about most of the characters we have read in the book. Like,
“If Maria is our hugger then Gloria is our rocker.” Also ” Willy loves baseball.” ” Freddy, who’s almost twelve is the oldest in our group.”She also has descriptive language that creates imagery. Like ” I slide out of my wheelchair like wet spaghetti.” Or ‘it was white and soft and just the right size for chubby baby fingers to pick up.” “I couldn’t roll over, so it was just an irritated me, the shag rug, and the smell of spilled sour soy milk in my face until I got rescued.” She also puts the story in first person so we experience what she does. ” I remember stupid stuff, like the feel of a lump of oatmeal stuck on the roof of my mouth, or the taste of toothpaste not rinsed of my teeth. ” I love the smell of my mother’s hair after she washes it.”
Those were a few things I like about Sharon Draper’s book ” Out of my Mind.”