Blind

Author's note: This is my prediction piece for reading. I made a prediction on what I think will happen in the book Girl, Stolen.

Must have ears to keep track of everything you hear. Must have touch in order to feel everything around you. Must have scent to smell things. Must have taste so you can taste foods and other things that are in your mouth. Must have eyesight in order to see everything that goes on around you.

In the book Girl Stolen, Cheyenne doesn’t have eyesight. She is blind. She cannot see everything that goes on around her. She does not know what gestures people make. She does not know what faces people are making. She cannot see them at all. Living life isn’t easy for her. Cheyenne needs to use a cane to feel things around her. Something as simple as getting in the car when leaving your house, is a challenge. How is she to know where to turn and where her mother’s car is? She doesn’t. That is what makes life a challenge for her.

To start with, in the opening of the book, Cheyenne is diagnosed with pneumonia. It makes it hard for her to breath and she has a constant feeling of congestion. With her step-mom on her way to pick up a prescription, she is bundled up under a blanket and laying down in the backseat of the car. Her step-mother gets out of the car and runs in to pick up the prescription. Finally, her step- mother returns but gets in the car quite quickly and there is a smelling of smoke in the air in replacement of her smooth mint cough drop. The smell had been brought by her. Cheyenne looked up only to find that it wasn’t her step-mother but someone else. She was getting stolen. That is where the title came from. Girl, Stolen. But it wasn’t just any girl. It was a small blind girl. In this predicament, Cheyenne has to rely on all other senses but her eyesight. One of the most important.

Once the guy finally took note of her, he claimed it was an accident and only wanted the car and not her. He couldn’t get caught now so he did end up having to kidnap her. The guy tied her up so that she wouldn’t fight back. Now, Cheyenne cannot show that her ultimate weakness was being blind even though she knew it was. She couldn’t let him take complete advantage of her because of her inability to see.

Now, Cheyenne is going to go along with being tied up and everything but still fight back with words to show him that he is not the boss. Cheyenne will not let him control her and that she will keep her mouth shut around him. Cheyenne is going to allow herself to get tied up and that’s as far as it will go. The guy claims that he will take her back or let her go in a while once the whole kidnapping calms down with the police. I have a feeling that Cheyenne will cooperate with and trust him because she has already let him tie her up and has forgiven him for the misunderstanding of her being in the car. She will let him keep her for a few days but be very cautious with the things he does. If something is out of her comfort zone, or he does something wrong, then she will fight back. Considering she is blind and doesn’t know where they are, she has to trust her other senses. Cheyenne will go along with anything that doesn’t make her feel uncomfortable and wait until she can find her way back home. She might become friends with the guy and will not tell her step-mom or the police exactly what happened. Instead she might make something up. Cheyenne will have an adventure out of being kidnapped and can do just as many things as any other ordinary person can.

If no ears, then you could not keep track of things you hear. If no touch, then you could not feel everything around you. If no scent, then you could not smell things. If no taste, then you could not taste foods or any other thing that goes into your mouth. If no eyesight, then you can use every other sense better than an ordinary person.