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A review by mrs_galaxywanderer091825
El Deafo by Cece Bell
4.0
4-4.25 stars
I can see why this is an award winning book as it gives a good understanding of what the author went through in childhood as a hearing impaired individual. It’s easy to understand how being different and unique isn’t what a kid wants at a time when all they want is to fit in with others. The author may not have always acted how others would deem fairly or correctly but kids make mistakes. At least she owned up to it in the author’s note at the end of the book.
This middle grade/young adult semi-autobiographical graphic novel surprised me! First off, I had no idea that it took place in the 1970s so it was so cool seeing cultural references to that time period. Secondly, it made the struggles truly seem like real struggles. Back then the science that was available in the health and technology fields was nowhere near what we have now. A child getting meningitis isn’t super heard of now thanks to vaccines that are available. I know when I entered college I had to get a refresher meningitis vaccine as part of my agreement to enter a work study program. To have a 4 year old get so sick and almost die from that illness and all you can do is tape measure their head must have been terrifying. I’m glad we have vaccines available for those who want them. Technology was big and chunky back in the day. Heck people say cell phones back in the early 2000s were clunky so thirty years before that would have been a whole other level of massive. I can only imagine how people back then would react to the hearing aids and implants we have available now.
I can see why this is an award winning book as it gives a good understanding of what the author went through in childhood as a hearing impaired individual. It’s easy to understand how being different and unique isn’t what a kid wants at a time when all they want is to fit in with others. The author may not have always acted how others would deem fairly or correctly but kids make mistakes. At least she owned up to it in the author’s note at the end of the book.
This middle grade/young adult semi-autobiographical graphic novel surprised me! First off, I had no idea that it took place in the 1970s so it was so cool seeing cultural references to that time period. Secondly, it made the struggles truly seem like real struggles. Back then the science that was available in the health and technology fields was nowhere near what we have now. A child getting meningitis isn’t super heard of now thanks to vaccines that are available. I know when I entered college I had to get a refresher meningitis vaccine as part of my agreement to enter a work study program. To have a 4 year old get so sick and almost die from that illness and all you can do is tape measure their head must have been terrifying. I’m glad we have vaccines available for those who want them. Technology was big and chunky back in the day. Heck people say cell phones back in the early 2000s were clunky so thirty years before that would have been a whole other level of massive. I can only imagine how people back then would react to the hearing aids and implants we have available now.