Jaime Wallace Post #9

This week we compared a glee episode to a couple of Eli Clare's essays from the book "Exile and Pride". Artie is a character from glee and he is a parapalegic manual wheelchair user. In this episode Artie has a tough time fitting in with the rest of glee club because of his disability. So in order for his classmates to understand what Artie has to deal with at a day to day basis they are force to stay in a wheelchair for an entire week. All of the glee club members realize how hard Artie's life truely is becasue of his disabilty, they are put at the same level as Artie and figure out it is very difficult. In one of Eli Clare's essays, "The Moutain", the main character goes through much difficulty living her life with a disability as well. She tries to climb a mountain with very poor legs. Every step she takes she throws off her balance and that makes in very difficult for her to reach her goal, meaning the top of the mountain. She later realizes that even though she can not make it to the top she still suceeded because she isn't like normal people becasue of her disability.