| A | B |
|---|
| Author | David Raymond |
| Genre | nonfiction |
| Title | "On Being Seventeen, Bright - and Unable to Read" |
| Setting - time | growing up from about 5yrs old to present |
| Setting -place | America, Norwalk Connecticut |
| Things David had a hard time doing | reading, throwing a ball, learning to swim |
| What he wished for on his birthday | friends |
| what his father said about David's early years of school | They were the worst years of his life (the father) also |
| How the author perceived (thought of) himself while in the early years of school | dumb, wanted to die |
