Right now I am reading Fish In A Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt. The main character is Ally. She is a very smart girl who is very shy. The reason for why she is a trouble maker and she is a trouble maker because when she try’s so hard to not show her secret of dyslexia she gets in trouble because she doesn’t behave normally. dyslexia is a general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols, but that do not affect general intelligence. In the book so far Ally has lots of trouble facing this challenge. One example of her facing this challenge is, when she goes to school every day there is a group of bulleys that taunt her and annoy her all day because she can’t read very well. Another problem that she faces with this challenge is, even when she is not in school she can’t understand what she is reading not just a book. A poster, directions for something, labels and more.
In the book they have not told us what exactly Ally does at home alone but from my perspective I would say she is probably at home thinking about all the mean kids who taunted her that day and what she might have gotten in trouble for that day or what school might be like the next day. She might also be thinking about how school would be like if she didn’t have dyslexia. I feel so bad for ally that she has to get introuble just so that nobody will know about her dyslexia secret. I also feel bad for Ally because when going to school feeling like your walking through the doors of horror every day would be super annoying.