The Sign For Home - Chapters 1 - 8 Summary & Analysis

Blair Fell
This Study Guide consists of approximately 46 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Sign For Home.

The Sign For Home - Chapters 1 - 8 Summary & Analysis

Blair Fell
This Study Guide consists of approximately 46 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Sign For Home.
This section contains 1,553 words
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Summary

While Arlo’s point-of-view is told through the second-person, the summaries will refer to the narrator as Arlo rather than the reader for clarity.

Chapter One: "Sniff" is told in the second person as the character starts an email to Clara Shuster. They want to meet a potential ASL interpreter to work with their current one, Molly Clinch. The narrator says that people misconstrue their writing as childish. Yet, the character finds it hard compared to ASL. Then, it is revealed the character is DeafBlind and a Jehovah's Witness named Arlo Dilly.

Chapter Two: "TERP" shifts to an unnamed interpreter as he waits for an interview with Clara in the Abilities Institute. However, he is nervous about working with someone who is Deaf Blind as the interpreter will have to use Tactile ASL. Early in their career, the narrator had to tell a...

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