Tuesday, May 8, 2012

New book

For my outside reading I am reading the book Kasher In the Rye, by Moshe Kasher.  This book is the story of Moshe Kasher a young troubled boy from Oakland, California.  At this poing in the story we have found out all about his family.  Both his parents are deaf and he, his mom, and his big brother ran away from their father at around age 4 because he was abusive.  We also learn that Moshe has anger management issues and must see a therapist.  "Six-year-old therapy looked like this: Ruben would hand me a Nerf sword and I would beat him as savagely as I could around the legs, buttocks, and genitalia." (Kasher 12)  Moshe would attack people, even complete strangers, this became so bad that his mother had to put him on a leash everytime they went out.  Also while he was a baby, Moshe drank a bottle of his mothers perfume and had to be taken to the hospital, which can easily be assumed that it is foreshadowing what is soon to come.   This book is kind of slow in the beginning but later on it starts to pick up with drug use and more violence.  I am really excited to keep reading this book.

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