Significance of Filming

There are three instances of cameras in the text. The first occurs when Shawn’s father comes to his school with the channel 7 news to film a special about tax dollars paying to educate the uneducable. The second instance occurs when Sydney and Cindy McDaniel appear on the Alice Ponds Show to discuss Shawn’s disability and Earl Detraux. The third is an interview aired on the Alice Ponds Show where Sydney McDaniel interviews Earl Detraux.