Things Not Seen- Book Report #2

I read the book Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements. I think I would rate this book a 9.6 because I liked pretty much everything it, especially the friendship between Bobby and Alicia. They turned out to be best friends, and they would have never even met or paid attention to each other if Bobby wouldn’t have been invisible or if Alicia wouldn’t have been blind. I thought it was cool how they kept thinking up little experiments to see if anybody would help Bobby’s “situation”.
My favorite part of the book was when Bobby and Alicia were instant messaging each other, and Alicia came up with the idea that maybe if Bobby slept with his electric blanket again, he would become normal. He couldn’t become more invisible, so that sounded like a logical theory. When Bobby woke up the next morning, he was visible again! Alicia, the little blind girl who everyone usually ignored and felt sorry for was the one who fixed the whole problem!
The only part I really didn’t like was Sheila. Sheila is a girl that is in the same “situation” as Bobby. She has been invisible for three years, but has had a pretty good life that way. When Bobby finds out how to become visible again, he calls Sheila, thinking she would be thrilled, but instead she had a kind of surprising answer. She said thanks for calling, but she likes her life exactly the way it is, and likes being invisible. She didn’t want to go back to normal again, and Bobby understood, but I thought that that was kind of weird. If I could rewrite that part of the book, I would have made Sheila be relieved that Bobby found the cure and she would have turned back to normal and would live happily ever after. On the other hand, if it would have gone that way in the book, it would have made that part really predictable, and I probably would have wanted to change it again. I guess that the author has to add these little quirks so people don’t get bored and quit reading. So maybe the book should stay exactly the way it was written in the first place.

Things Not Seen- Book Report #1

I read the book Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements. The main character is Bobby Phillips, and the biggest choice he had to make was whether he wanted to tell everybody about his invisibility or hide his invisibility. Bobby chose to hide his invisibility. I would have made the same choice because if Bobby told people about invisibility, he would probably become some kind of lab rat because everyone would be trying to do tests on him, trying to figure out how it happened. Also, if people found out how to become invisible, there would be invisible people all over. It would be easier for burglars to rob people, because no one would be able to see them!
Another choice Bobby had to make was whom he could trust. As soon as he found out he was invisible that dreaded Monday morning, the first thing he did was tell his parents. That’s the way Bobby’s parents wanted it to stay, just them knowing, and no one else. But Bobby met this blind girl named Alicia at the library, and when she touched his shoulder, there was nothing there, just skin, what was Bobby supposed to say? He decided to tell Alicia the truth, and later on they became best friends. He knew that he could trust Alicia. Bobby’s parents weren’t too happy when they found out that their son had blabbed about his “situation” to another person, especially one he had just met, but they grew to understand Bobby’s decision.
I think I would have made the same decision Bobby made because, if he didn’t trust Alicia, he would have been all alone, with no one to keep him from really losing himself. That’s what Alicia had said when she had first gone blind. She said she would have lost her mind if she didn’t have anything left of her old life, of the way it was before she was blind, and I think Bobby felt the same way. With Alicia, he had something to make him feel semi-normal again. Bobby didn’t choose to be invisible, it just happened one night, and I think if I had to choose, I wouldn’t want to be invisible either. You wouldn’t be able to do most of the things you used to do when you were normal, and even staying home from school that long would get boring. I think I would choose to stay exactly who I am.