Boo-Emery Miller

My Boo Radley experience is my story about me coming to understand "challenged people". It hasn't been very long since I have found a new perspective about people with motor disfunctions, difects and/or mental disabilities. When I was little, I always thought that handicapped people, weather physically or mentally, were scary or strange. I didn't like how they were different because it made me feel uncomfortable (remember, this was when I was only five or so). Whenever I saw someone like this at a store or public place I would cling close to my dad, he would tell me "Everything is fine, Em." I never knew why he could act so nonchalant during these moments.
My dad was a crime scene investigator, and he used to travel on trips a lot. Sometimes he would travel to far away cites like Bellingham or Lynwood, and be home at dinnertime but other times he would be gone for days and take planes to Eastern Washington or many other further reaches in the state and be gone for awhile. I would always ask him what he did while he gone for so long, but it was hard to comprehend because I was so small. It was then one day when I was eight and we were on vacation in my dad's homestate I saw a person in a wheel chair with many motor disfunctions all by himself. I remember clearly what I said, "Dad, that person is creepy." My dad replied with "Emery, please don't say that." I asked him why and he told me. The crime scenes he always would investigate were cases with the abuse of mentally delayed people. He told me it wasn't their fault they were like that and that they really weren't all that different. This changed my whole perspective on these kinds of people. I now know they aren't different but exactly like us. Everyone is human but not the same human. Some people think fast, some people think slow. Others are good at sports others are good at other things, like music, etc. Some people have birth marks or moles and other don't, and people have different thoughts. These are the kinds of things my dad taught.
The intervention my dad gave me was like Scout's with Atticus. Atticus said Scout should not make fun of Boo or think differently of him just because he likes to keep to himself inside his house.Then, Scout put herself in Boo's shoes just like Atticus said she should, and before the book was over she didn't think Boo was so creepy or strange after all.
 Boo also turns out to be heroic in the end and was brave enough to save the Finch family from Bob Ewell. The disabled people my dad showed me aren't so different, are brave too. My dad says he doesn't feel bad for disabled people like most people, he says he admires them because of their bravery to lead a normal life, like the person I saw in the wheel chair who was brave enough to go out into the world all alone.
Just like Scout came to realize Boo is different through Atticus, I came to realize disabled people are not different either.

Introduction to Emery's blog

I am the kind of English student who likes to write. I like to write a lot of stuff, like essays and reports but I don't like to read. I also like poems like Haikus and other forms of poetry. I'll probably be the person who posts things at the last minute due to my terrible memory and my laziness, but I'll try to do my best never to be late for a post. I might have some music stuff on my blog just because so if people like music my blog is the place for that.
Now for answering those questions: (I can't remember all the questions Mrs.Gilman said to do for this blog so I'm going to wing it) I think it is important for students to be good at English because they may want to grow up to be book writers or other things involving writing/reading skills, plus writing is good for lots of different things, like writing letters, filling out job resumes, or writing public speeches. Thats a small part of the point of English. English is a requirement for kids wanting to go to college because English is used in so many things that everyone does, just like math and science. English can also help on a personal level becuase it can improve your public speaking skills and help you communicate with others because you discuss over things on a regular basis. I think one of the questions said something like "how will you en-lighten your blog?" and I will do that by being enthusiastic about my blogs and try to talk about the things we do in class in an interesting manner and be sophisticated and use commas and not say "and" all the time by using commas and starting new sentences instead of saying and.
And with that, my blog comes to a conclusion for tonight.