Reading and Writing Assignment for 1/21/2016 29th class

I think you are right about Charlie being mesmerized (fascinated) by the swans. I think for him they are particularly important. It's interesting that you say they stand for "perfect and beautiful things in the book." Charlie's mental disability is called "autism," and one of the many things autistic children can't tolerate is the sense that something is missing or out of order.  Thus you are correct to link the swans to perfection and make that part of Charlie's attraction to them. I want to bring that point up in class because it's an excellent insight and worthy of more discussion.

And lest I forget, how perfectly you picked up the word intrigued from the assignment and used it in your own writing. Nice work, as always. LM.F

P.S. I wil e-mail you a couple of comments as well.

In the book ‘The Summer of the Swans’, the swans are really important to the story. The swan is a guide for the book. I think those swans have a special mean to Charlie. Swan, means pure and freedom. And Charlie is a boy who never talk, it’s mean he locked himself so he don’t have any freedom. Charlie can be close to the swans maybe because of this. Only the swans can know what he is thinking about, only the swans can feel what Charlie feel is. Because the swan means love. Swan can pardon Charlie. They have some special relation to each other. That mean swans are not just a unimportant part in the whole book.

Very interesting thoughts on those swans Cindy. I especially like the idea of the swans symbolizing freedom and Charlie sensing that about him as he himself is locked (great verb choice) inside his own head.  And you are certainly right about the swans not being unimportant. 

Hello，Laraine

      In the book The Summer of the Swans Charlie and Sara went to see the swans. I think Charlie likes watching swans more than Sara.    For Sara, she can go to see the swans every summer because she knows they will be here every summer. So she is not very very intereted in it at one time. But Charlie is different.  He is not a normal boy. His brain had been injured when he was three years old by his illness. He is more pure than Sara. He doesn't know the swans come every year. The swans are so nice. He thinks it may be the only time he could see them. So he willl more cherish the time he is with them. To see the swans. He even goes out at night  and wants to watch them again.

  I think the book's title is The Summer of the Swans because the swans means nice,pure, kind and luck. It may tell us a story about Sara. A girl always thinks everything is bad．But after she sees the swans and her brother loses, she changes. She  starts to thinks the world is nice and kind.(May after she finds Charlie)

Well done Enya!!  And what a good insight into why the two of them view the swans differently. Sara knows they might well be back but Charlie cannot think that way because he suffers from autism.  Many perfectly written and perfectly punctuated English sentences here and lovely verb choice in "cherish." I think you  are also right  in saying that the title tells "a story about Sara." I love the way you make that point as well, "It may tell us a story about Sara," which is what titles often do: They tell us a story.