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Answer 1

"A Boy of Unusual Vision," by Alice Steinback, The Baltimore Sun


First, the eyes: They are large and blue, a light opaque blue, the color of a robin's egg. And if, on a sunny spring day, you look straight into these eyes—eyes that cannot look back at you—the sharp, April light turns them pale, like the thin blue of a high, cloudless sky.

Ten-year-old Calvin Stanley, the owner of these eyes and a boy who has been blind since birth, likes this description and asks to hear it twice. He listens as only he can listen, then: "Orange used to be my favorite color but now it's blue," he announces. Pause. The eyes flutter between the short, thick lashes, "I know there's light blue and there's dark blue, but what does sky-blue look like?" he wants to know. And if you watch his face as he listens to your description, you get a sense of a picture being clicked firmly into place behind the pale eyes.

He is a boy who has a lot of pictures stored in his head, retrievable images which have been fashioned for him by the people who love him—by family and friends and teachers who have painstakingly and patiently gone about creating a special world for Calvin's inner eye to inhabit.

Picture of a rainbow: "It's a lot of beautiful colors, one next to the other. Shaped like a bow. In the sky. Right across."

Picture of lightning, which frightens Calvin: "My mother says lightning looks like a Christmas tree—the way it blinks on and off across the sky," he says, offering a comforting description that would make a poet proud.

"Child," his mother once told him, "one day I won't be here and I won't be around to pick you up when you fall—nobody will be around all the time to pick you up—so you have to try to be something on your own. You have to learn how to deal with this. And to do that, you have to learn how to think."

There was never a moment when Ethel Stanley said to herself, "My son is blind and this is how I'm going to handle it."

Calvin's mother:

"When Calvin was little, he was so inquisitive. He wanted to see everything, he wanted to touch everything. I had to show him every little thing there is. A spoon, a fork. I let him play with them. The pots, the pans. Everything. I showed him the sharp edges of the table. 'You cannot touch this; it will hurt you.' And I showed him what would hurt. He still bumped into it anyway, but he knew what he wasn't supposed to do and what he could do. And he knew that nothing in his room—nothing—could hurt him.

And when he started walking and we went out together—I guess he was about 2—I never said anything to him about what to do. When we got to the curbs. Calvin knew that when I stopped, he should step down and when I stopped again, he should step up. I never said anything, that's just the way we did it. And it became a pattern."


What is the order of events of Calvin Stanley's story? Briefly explain in two or three sentences. Use proper spelling and grammar.

Answer 2

@texaschic101

Answer 3

@texaschic101 are you able to help? if you cant can you please notify someone who can?

Answer 4

i am not sure how to answer this....it starts out when he is older...talking about how he learned things, such as colors, from his loved ones...and it then goes back to when he is younger and is just beginning to learn to deal with his blindness with the help of his mom.

Answer 5

i dont understand

Answer 6

Hey, don't you remember what I wrote you for this the last time you posted this? @hockeybeast10

Answer 7

i posted this before?

Answer 8

Yep, you did
http://openstudy.com/users/hockeybeast10#/updates/56e5cbb9e4b0de40e350ffe6

Answer 9

okay so can we continue from there

Answer 10

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Answer 11

Well, the whole point of me writing out that guide was for you to attempt the two or three sentences that's required.
Once you come up with that, then I can look it over and see if you missed anything or if it needs editing.
Just give it a shot. :)

Answer 12

okay thank you can i tag you when i finish?

Answer 13

You betcha! :)

Answer 14

The first quarter of the story ~

This starts off by the author narrating the description of 'A Boy of Unusual Vision.'
She starts off by merely stating the eyes, but after she begins to be descriptive using a comparing mentality. Comparing them (these eyes) to the color of a robins egg.
Then like the pale blue of a high cloudless sky.
She then talks about WHO these eyes belong to. Calvin.
She narrates how others have to form the images in his mind in order for him to have sight of another sort.

The middle part of the story ~

This is where the author now describes HOW these images are formed into Calvins mind. Examples are given...e.g, the picture of a rainbow, and of lightening and so forth.

The nearing end of the story ~

Now the author has dived into a 1st person character where it sounds like the sibling of Calvin is talking and describing the personality of him like his inquisitiveness and curiosity

Answer 15

this is confusing me

Answer 16

The first event that takes place, is the author describing the boys eyes. Correct?

Answer 17

yes

Answer 18

are you still there?

Answer 19

Yes I am.
So, if we know that is the first event then we can start by writing that first.

Answer 20

okay

Answer 21

then she takes about who the eyes belong to and that they belong to calvin right?

Answer 22

would that be the second one?

Answer 23

Yes, and also describing specifically HOW these images are formed into his head?
They are formed by other people talking to him and telling him vividly what things are so that way he can draw them inside of his mind.

Answer 24

so what i would wright is: She describes how the images are formed into his head.
They are formed by other people talking to him and telling him vividly what things are so that way he can draw them inside of his mind. She takes about who the eyes belong to and that they belong to calvin.

Answer 25

wow you must be typing a lot!

Answer 26

Here let me edit a bit :) You've got your order of events a bit mixed up.

The author firstly describes the eyes in a subtle manner, stating the comparison's to a robins egg. Then she reveals who the eyes belong to, such as a boy named Calvin. Calvin is blind, so how is he able to see? Well, when reading further we find that the author uniquely tells how others talk to him to form the images vividly into his mind.

There :)

Answer 27

thank you!

Answer 28

is that all we had to do? or is there more?

Answer 29

I think thats all :)

Answer 30

thank you! can you help me with one last one please?

Answer 31

The last one?
Whats that?