Love this book. In retrospect, it is not really a distopia (which his teacher wants us to read), but the first part could pass for it. There are story elements that can be taught with it, as well as irony, allegory, and, certainly, drawing conclusions, which Gabe is weak in. So probably this book is more ideal for Gabe than for his teacher. Ah well. I am looking forward to reading it with him. What is the point of tutoring one-on-one if you don't individualize?
I have now started another book I'll be reading with Gabe this simmer: The Boy on the Wooden Box How the impossible became possible on Schindler's list, a memoir by Leon Leyson who lived the story. That pretty much tells what it is about. In the forward it is twenty years after the war ended and he gets to meet again Oskar Schindler, with several other of his survivors, and fears Oskar will not remember him. He needn't have worried...
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