Al Capone Does My Shirts

Al Capone does my Shirts is my favorite book that we have read in this class. I really could relate the situations in the story because one of my sisters is autistic. I understood how the family felt and it seemed like quite an accurate depiction. In our class discussion we discussed the use of language that people use when describing people with disabilities. I found that discussion particularly interesting. I think that its interesting how many people fail to realize by calling someone mentally retarded is actually a very mean term. When people with impairments are being spoken about, their impairment is said before their name. This is something that isn't Politically correct. The person's name should come before the impairment. This made me think about the language that was being used in the book. The only words that described Natalie, were stupid and retarded only a few times. I was surprised about this especially when this book was written about the 1930s.This led me to question if this book was written back in the 1930s would the language used to describe Natalie change and become more negative.