House Rules

This book that I have just started reading is called House Rules by Jodi Picoult. This book is about a boy who was born with Aspergers. He was diagnosed with this disease at age 5. His mom, has raised him along with his younger alone. Her husband left them when he complained that Jacob, the boy with  Aspergers was too hard to control was too much for the husband to handle. In this book Jacob is intensely involved mentally in crime T.V shows and the physics of it as well. When a murder happened in his town, Jacob goes and looks at the crime scene. He has more intellectual reasoning about the murder person who was assigned to the murder. After Jacob gives his opinion on how the man had died, the investigators decided that he was the murderer. They think that because he has Aspergers  syndrome and they feel as though they can put him in a category since he is dianosed with this disease.

I think that it is not okay to categorize people who have certain diseases because of how their brains work and process information. I think that people need to think about how they are categorizing certain people into certain positions in their lives. I feel that the investigators are taking advantage of Jacob, and he physically cannot realize that they are doing that to him. I think that society (maybe without knowing it) puts certain people int positions where they cannot get themselves out of. I think that if we stop putting labels on people, we could look at people for just who they are and not how they are categorized.