In chapter 11 a girl named Alana Malfy is described to be a freak of nature who has many different features that have not been seen before in just one person. I related this back to my life because a cousin of mine is just like Alana at birth he was declared to have a variety of different disabilities that would stick with him for as long as he lived. As many thought he wouldn’t make it passed elementary school he overturned the odds by promoting from elementary school and later graduating from high school. Throughout his years in public education he received speech-language, occupational and physical therapy just as did Alana. In chapter 11 Alana Malfy is a girl who has the desire to destroy the odds that are put before her. When she was