"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your gonna get."(Forrest Gump) Substantiated in Terry Trueman's novel, Stuck in neutral, an unwinable war is fought between Shawn and the disability with which he was cursed. Cursed in a sense that how would one feel if even eye contact was on the brink of impossible? And, that was the easiest thing that Shawn could do.
Disability? What does that really mean? The best person to ask is Shawn McDaniel, if he could speak, if he could write, or even if he could give some sort of sign that he understands a thing that is said to him. So, who is to blame? His parents, himself, or how about nature? Shawn battles nature everyday for the anguish and loneliness to which is disability has subjected him. See, Shawn didn't fall out a tree, or get hit by a car. During his birth, a blood vessel in his brain burst in the most profound spot. So now even the words, "I love you," are just out of reach.
Stuck in neutral is just about that. About the everyday struggles with which Shawn deals. The inability to do this, the inability to do that. The inability to say, "don't worry about me, I"m happy." The only time Shawn is happy is when he has a seizure, for the fact that it is the only time he feels free. Isn't that sad? To everybody else, it is sad. In reality his seizures are the only thing keeping him sane, even though everyone else thinks he is in pain. So now Shawn tries to avoid the inevitable, death. Death not by natural causes, but death by asphyxiation. By the person that loves him the most his dad. But, for some reason his dad's madness is, in a sense, honorable. He doesn't want to see his son go through what he is. One has to take what life deals them.
Life is like a box of chocolates. None of us know what's going to happen to us or even when our "ticket" is going to be called. The only thing we can do is try our best to live the life that we want.
Who? - In my opinion, James Buchanan wasn't a very good president. President Buchanan didn't do much for the country, if anything. Many people, including myself, believe he actually could have prevented the Civil War, had he done better leading the country. During the time of Buchanan's presidency s...
Crystals are formed because the negative and positive charges come together tightly, or stuck, and they stack into groups. ... They are together as crystals and these big blocks of crystals are full of positive and negative charges all stuck together (Fig. 1). ... The compound breaks into neutral molecules when they are dissolved in water. ...
The basic idea of the poem is a description of a storm by the narrator who is stuck in house during the fierce storm. ... The poet maintains a neutral tone throughout the poem which is set in an isolated house atop a hill which can BE deduced from the detailed description of the effects of the storm on the mountains. The poem follows the effects of the storm on various objects observable from the house, starting with a metaphor comparing the house with a ship far out at sea at night and stuck in a storm. ...
Hydroplaning: When hydroplaning occurs, shift into neutral and steer the way you want to go. ... Stop Faster in Neutral: In slippery conditions, it is a good idea to stop by lightly pressing the brakes and shifting into neutral. ... Steering System Failure: Turn on hazards and shift into neutral. ... Stuck Accelerator: First, shift to neutral and use the brakes to slow down to the side of the road. ...
Female literature was not valued during that time, so the Brontes used neutral name to get their work to be published. Ellis Bell "Emily's pen name "stuck with her for the remainder of her life and by the end of the year 1846, she had written Wuthering Heights. ...
The manner that her facial features have been carved suggests a neutral expression. ... Her facial features portray a neutral expression. ... These strings and spherical objects appear to be stuck to the right leg. ... Despite of the different facial features, both the statues display a neutral facial expression. ...
IBM, the largest semiconductor manufacturer at the time, unwilling to change its infrastructure, stuck with the bipolar transistor. ... It should be noted that sign just refers to the charge moving within the transistor not the charge of the atoms which always remains neutral. ... In this layer charges are unable to move and the sign of charge is neutral since the free electrons of the n-type filled in the gaps of the p-type. ...
