whos read things not seen ?

Question

i need a summary and wow inferences and inference no one ever thought of but urself!

Answer 1

Things not seen by Andrew Clements.: Summary:

The earnest and likable 15-year-old narrator is the principal thing not seen in Clements's (Frindle; The Jacket) fast-paced novel, set in Chicago. As the book opens, the boy discovers that he has turned invisible overnight. Bobby breaks the news to his parents who, afraid of being hounded by the media, instruct him to share his dilemma with no one. But when Bobby ventures out of the house and visits the library, he meets Alicia, a blind girl to whom he confides his secret. Their blossoming friendship injects a double meaning into the book's title. As preposterous as the teen's predicament may be, the author spins a convincing and affecting story, giving Bobby's feeling of helplessness and his frustration with his parents an achingly real edge. As his physicist father struggles to find a scientific explanation for and a solution to his son's condition, husband and wife decide that they will tell the investigating truancy officials and police that Bobby has run away. Bobby, however, becomes increasingly determined to take control of the situation and of his own destiny: "And I want to yell, It's my life! You can't leave me out of the decisions about my own life! You are not in charge here!" Equally credible is the boy's deepening connection to Alicia, who helps Bobby figure out a solution to his problem.


A reader's review - inferences no one thought about:

I really enjoyed this book! What most people don't relize about this book is that this story is not about Bobby or Alicia, it is about our world. It is about people. Yes, there are people who can hurt us. Yes, there are people who we shouldn't trust, but that doesn't mean that we can never trust someone. What people can really learn from this book is that people do care. Andrew Clements has done the world a huge favor by writing this book. If people choose to read this once in their lives and just use it as good liteature that is their choice, but I think that there is a much deeper meaning that people can aquire from this book.

*What else people do not know about?
Few readers may know that Clements read and was influenced by Dostoevsky's "The Double" and H.G Wells, "The Invisible Man." He wanted to rewrite those adult stories for younger audiences without losing the existential thread. The book raises the question about visibility, reality, phantasmagoric existence yet fitting well with teens' vast imaginations about the issues of Existence Vs. Essence.

Answer 2

Plot summary: (I didn't write this-- simply copied and pasted off the website. However, I did read the book a long time ago.)

"Bobby is frustrated by his parents, like most teens, and feels invisible in school. But when he wakes up one morning he discovers he really is invisible. Unlike most kids in books, the first thing Bobby does is tell his parents, and he quickly discovers being invisible isn't as much fun as you might think. Bobby becomes a prisoner in his own house -- in midwinter Chicago going around without clothes isn't too much fun, and clothes walking around without a person inside them draws unwanted attention.

Things get even more difficult when his parents are in a car accident and hospitalized for several days, leaving Bobby on his own. But in this day and age a boy can't just disappear without first his school and then Child Protection and the police getting involved, suspecting that he has been the victim of foul play. So Bobby must find a way to become visible again before his parents are arrested."