Additional Thoughts on "Charlie's Point of View"

There were a few ideas during our group discussion on the book that we didn't get a chance to bring up in class but that i thought were really intersting points about the book itself. During a discussion about the ways in which the dark black pages worked in the text, one of the students in our group also pointed out the brail at the bottom of each page. She also showed us how it said in brail "Charlie's Point of View". I thought this was very interesting becuase I had noticed the brail at the bottom of the pages, but I personall did not think anymore into it then simply noticing it was brail. I thought that the creative addition of both the brail in the book and the black pages added to the story and helped in the understanding of Charlie's character. There was one specific time when Lewis said to Charlie "look what I found" and as you turned the page and saw black it helped me to realize, on a much smaller scale, what Charlie's character expereiences. I think this was a unique and creative way to help the reader identify with the character a little more, even though the blinedness can not necessarily be shared. When I was reading I remember being so interested in the story and trying to figure out the mystery of it, that as I turned the page and saw the black, when I really was curious to see what Lewis found, I felt a slight sence of the frustration an individual who is blind might feel when people say thinks like "look at that" or "see this" when you infact can not, even if the comments are unintentional.