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Michael Vey: The Prisoner Cell
The book is Michael Vey: The Prisoner Cell 25, written by Richard Paul Evans. This is a science fiction story intended for young adults; the plot of this story involves Michael Vey, a teenage boy with Tourette's syndrome but gifted with electrical powers.
The electrical powers that Michael -- a fourteen-year-old high school student -- discovers within himself give him an extraordinary gift but these powers also cause Michael serious social / personal issues and cause intense scrutiny that plague him. A cheerleader named Taylor also has these electrical powers, and readers learn that both Michael and Taylor were born in the same hospital. In time, an evil group that wants to control Michael's and Taylor's powers and puts their evil plans to work, creating solid conflict in this book.
Thesis Statement
Adolescents anywhere in the world -- during their high school years -- universally can be cruel to fellow students that are a little different, a little strange, or nerdy, and this social reality in Michael's high school experience -- plus the fact that he was punished as the victim -- is a fortuitous (albeit sad) opening for the plot to develop. Readers of young adult...
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Body of the Report
Cruelty happens to Tourette's-afflicted Michael in high school not just because bullies see a chance to ply their brutal trade on him but also when the punishment for an insidious act against him is visited upon him and not on the perpetrator. When Jack Vranes locked Michael in his locker for the second time in a month, and the custodian dragged him down to Mr. Dallstrom's office, Michael said: "It was the second time that month I'd been called to his office for something someone else did to me. Mr. Dallstrom was big on punishing the victim" (8). It was wholly outrageous to have been stuffed into his locker; but it was even more unconscionably cruel when the clueless principal dumps even more pain on Michael.
Notwithstanding all the unkind and nasty things that…
Works Cited
Evans, R.P. (2012). Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25. New York: Simon and Schuster.
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