Chapter 8 Now You See It

Summary:
The chapter starts out with Cathy Davidson telling a story about when she was on vacation and injured her arm.  She talks about how she had to go through rehab for about 6 months. She would watch the students come into rehab and saw how they didn't give up and kept pushing themselves to get better and this inspired her. She also talks about the "phantom limb". Another person that inspired Cathy was Sadiik, a Somali taxi driver, who drove her to rehab everyday for those 6 months. Cathy says that Radonna said, "Age gets blamed a lot of the times when the operative word should be lazy." This chapter was basically about how people often are just lazy or give up too easily on things, when they should try harder and never give up.

Critical Commentary:
I thought that the way Cathy started this chapter out with a story about her injuring her arm made an interesting way to start the chapter and kind of got you reeled in, so that you want to read more. When she also talks about how she didn't give up on fixing her arm, this gives her good ethos because it shows determination. I also thought it was interesting when she brought up the VCR and how it was a "crappy technology" and how it separated young from old and male and female. Cathy provides many other good stories and examples in this chapter. One of the things I liked was when she quoted Radonna about how a lot of the time people use age as an excuse when its really because they are lazy. Cathy also provides a lot of facts in this chapter. For example, she says that now over 80% of Americans between 50 and 54 are now online.