In the book Things Not Seen by Andrew Clement the protagonist Bobby Phillips wakes up one morning and he is invisible. As he struggles to adapt to his new condition he grows up little by little. Throughout his struggles to be seen he continuously notices how his mother and father try to control his life, making many of his decisions without consulting him. When his parent are done freaking out and leave him home alone Bobby decides to visit the library. Because it is the middle of winter Bobby enters the library totally bundled up with no skin showing, and while in the library he goes to a rarely used bathroom strips down and walks around the library with no eyes on him. He goes around for a while and gets hurt a couple of times but when he sees the times he rushes back to the bathrrom bundles back up and tries to run out of the library to beat his father home. As Bobby is running he crashes into a blind girl who he later becomes very close friends with. When Bobby arrives home he is too late, his father had already arrived and now was pretty mad. On his fathers way back home again from picking up Bobby's mother they get into a car crash and Bobby gets a house call from a doctor who says that he needs to get someone to take care of him. Knowing that no one should see Bobby in his condition Bobby's mother lies to the doctor and says that her aunt is watching Bobby.
With his parents in the hospital and nobody at home Bobby decides to go back to the library but these times he goes totally invisible. And there he meets the blind girl again. Her name is Alicia. Between this meeting and the next ones they develope a sarcasm full relationship where they talked about thier lives. Alicia's mother soon begins to worry and her parents eventually find out about Bobby though how they found out was alot easier than when Alicia herself found out.
Quotation: And he stutters, and squints, and passes through all the phases that Mom, Dad, and Alicia have: fear, confusion, disbelief, and then amazement that levels out to a steady curiosity.
Reaction: This is Leo's, Alicia's dad, reaction to finding out about Bobby being invisible, and my reaction to his reaction is that my reaction to someone being invisible would be a bit different. If I found out that someone I knew was invisible and in front of me I wouldn't be scared per say but I would probualy go straight to the amazement.
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