WWW:WAKE

Caitlin Decter is described to be unique individual. She has always had to live without sight. That is something that I have never encountered in a book before, a weakness in the main character. I have tried exercises without the use of sight, such as pin the tail on the donkey and pinatas. I do not operate very well without my vision. Caitlin was born with a disfunction that causes her brain to not interpret the information coming from her eyes. The intresting thing about this is that she is able to react to her JAWs program, which reads her information from websites, and browse the Internet faster than many people. I was suprised when I read this because I always thought that it would have been harder to browse the Internet without sight. This use of brain interaction has caused her cerebral cortex to be more developed than an average blind person's would be. The cereral cortex is a part of the brain that plays a role in perceptional awareness. Sawyer, once again, draws the reader back to an idea of awareness.