Big Ideas

Some things that you might want to look at before reading Epileptic is articles that describe what exactly epilepsy is and what happens to a person when they have epilepsy, like in the article,

"Epilepsy." Microsoft® Student 2006 [CD]. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Corporation, 2005.

or to see what David B is trying to illustrate in his drawings of his brother having a seizure,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV40H_g-NJo

you also need to understand how having someone in your family having a disease affects the whole family. in the book, David talks about how his brothers epilepsy affects all of his family. It mostly affects the people they live with, but also any family that knows the epileptic person, like described in the following article,

http://www.epilepsyontario.org/client/EO/EOWeb.nsf/web/Epilepsy+and+the+Family