Eye Contact By Cammie Mcgovern Analysis

Do you know how it feels to have autism? In Cammie McGovern’s novel Eye Contact, Adam, a nine-year-old autistic boy, is discovered hiding near to the body of his murdered classmate. Now the police are relying on Adam as the only witness to an appalling crime. But he can't tell the police what he saw—or what he heard. Barely verbal on the best of days, Adam has retreated into a silent world that Cara, his mother, knows only too well. Adam is the boy who witness of his playmates murder and all he gets now is eye-contact.

As a witness to a murder, Adam, is not really a big help, but now gained a lot of attention from classmates. Even in today’s society children always make eye-contact with children with disorders or disabilities. Miss Latimore and the children were talking about how to act when Adam comes to school. She began to say, “ When Adam come do not make eye-contact or stare for so long, when he need help just help him, and try to treat him like a regular person.” This conversation is relevant because the title is eye-contact because when Adam comes back it is hard for people not to stare at him because of how he look but Miss Latimore goes over a few ground-rules. …show more content…
Even though he had already been in the school he still wouldn’t feel the same. While in the classroom one day Suezette walked up to Adam surprisingly. “ Hi, If you need anything do not be scared to ask me,” Adam said,” I can see your panties.” She acted like she couldn’t hear him. She walked away and went to speak to Clara. Suzette told her what had happened and after that day Clara could not stop staring at Adam with disgusting looks. This is relevant because Clair made eye-contact and stared at Adam after the teacher told her not to stare because it is