Stuck In Neutral

The first book I've chosen to read for my english independant reading project is Stuck In Neutral.

So far, in the first hundred pages there is a boy named Shawn McDaniels.
A small bllod vessel happened to burst in the wrong part of his brain which would lead him to have cerebral palsy AND muscular dystrophy.
He can't move at all and never will.
He can't speak, eat, write, and many things most people may take advantage of.
No one really understands his condition. When he goes to school, people ask him questions and he may reply by involuntary jerking or drooling. Most people think he has the IQ of a baby. But thats not true. He is actually very intelligent. But what is the use of that if you can't prove it to anyone. He can't even control the movements his eyes make.
His body has total control of him.
Shawn's dad left the family after some time because he couldn't live with shawn's condition. Shawn's dad said that anytime Shawn would go into one of his seizures, a part of him would die inside and he couldnt bear to see it anymore.
Quite ironically, Shawn's daily seizures are the highlight of Shawn's day.
When he has a seizure he imagines he can do anything. He can talk, fly, flirt with his crushes, anything he wants. They don't hurt him much, so Shawn loves his seizures. It's the one thing in his life that he has total control over.

One day while Shawn was outside alone.
Some crows used Shawn as a resting post. Of course, Shawn couldn't do anything. When Shawns dad came out, he shooed the crows away and said that Shawn would be better off if he "ended his pain". Shawn got scared because he thinks his dad will kill him.

That was just the beginning. Shawns dad won a pulitzer for a poem he wrote about Shawn. He's using some of his new-found popularity to advocate for some things. For example, Shawns dad does a t.v. program that urges the government to cut the funding for kids such as Shawn.
The thing that scared Shawn the most was when his dad went on the Alice Ponds show. He was there to stick up for a man named Earl Detraux. Earl smothered his 2 year old son ,with cerebral palsy, to death.
Earl Detraux insists he did it because he couldn't bear to see his son, Colin, in any more than than he was going through.
Shawns mother, his sister, and brother, all became aware of what message his dad was sending.
They never really talked about it though.


My opinion for the rest of the book (and there isnt much left), is that Shawns dad will come and tell him how much he loves Shawn. At that time, something in Shawn's brain will happen that will make him move. I don't really know how the book would end. But i hope it goes a little like that

So far i give this book a 4 out of 5 stars.