I feel sympathetic towards Austin as a real feeling but I don't see why. If there is any page that shows you why you feel sympathetic towards him please site.
While, mercifully, the world seems to have permanently moved forever away from the routine use of the phrase “deaf and dumb” it remains nevertheless true that likely a majority of the hearing world still holds onto at least some prejudicial view regarding the intellectual capacity of those inhabiting deaf culture. The book explores this theme within the spectrum of deaf communication, particularly through the focus on one character who received advanced technological implants at an early age and thus never learned how to sign. The idea that the ability to communicate is integrally related to the prejudicial views about the intellectual and social capacity of others becomes a particularly powerful theme of the story.
