The main idea of the book to me is : Camaraderie (About Davids and Sean Freind ship building up)Because at start david and sean got into a fist fight, at the end of the book they went to davids wheechair basketball game and david game him a picture of himself for him to cherish etc. So i think the main idea of the book is Camaraderie
I think the main idea of rebound is that it is possible to change your path of where you are going and what you can achieve.In the book,David started as a basketball player,and then had an accident and became ''disabled''.He kept taking risks and sucking people with him like a black hole,into danger.I thought the inevitable would be death,that he would succumb to self destruction but he was able to change his path.How close he was to killing himself,to end it all,but he overcame it.At the end of the book he was back like he was before taking risks,edgy and happy,but still determined to finding a ''cure''.David changed his path of depression into the path of optimism and hope.It is still ''blind faith'' but it's healthy to keep optimistic but still be realistic.
I think that the main idea of "Rebound" is not to judge someone just by their appearance. In this case Sean thought differently about David because he was in a wheelchair. But when he got to know David more he thought of him differently.
The main idea of rebound is to personally strive for equaility in all aspects of life like a wheel chair but the wheel chair in this case is symbolic of anything from a mental,physical,or emotional, 'disability" and how we should not subconsiously put our selfs on top of others ever
the main idea of Rebound to me was freindship, becausev of how Sean and David had practicly hated each other at the begining of the book, and as they learned each others characters better, they became closer. Throughout the book thier frendship grew, and so did there characters but over all i think the main idea of the book is friendship.
I agree with talwinder, that the main idea is about companionship because most of the book is about sean and david and how their working together on their problems and somehow they always work their problems out, and in the end it payed off because they became very good friends and david became more open to sean about his problems because of what happened at the gorge.
the main idea of the book rebound is you should treat everyone with equality no matter how diffrent they are physiclly, mentaly, emotionly. The book rebound was useing the "wheelchair" as something symbolic to represent how some people treat others, just because they are diffrent ether physilly, mentaly, emotionly, race or colour of their skin.
I believe that the main idea of the book is that you should cherish life and keep your ties with all those you care about.I thought this because there were very brief hints in which David was to commit suicide, but instead, he didnt. This could be because he reviewed his case with all those he care about, including Sean, and at the end of the book, he showed that their friendship was more then just going around places together and hanging out, he made a self portrait, which he would never do in the early stages of the book. This shows his attitude towards Sean and then therefore, if he remembered this, or if anyone recalls this, they could not be sane to commit suicide if you have something to live for(friendship).
@ talwinder gurinder had quotation marks around the word "disabled" it didn't mean he is saying david is disabled but just couldn't think of a better word
I agree with cripple (Taha) because he does show his attitude towards sean and the commiting sucide i think he changed his mind when sean came and said don't do it .. he did it for the friendship
the main idea is that just that friends care for one another and don't just forget about them.and that any kind of person such as a persons skin colour or disabilities are equal.the reason i think that is my main idea is because how the wheelchair is symbolic to say that the person is different in someway, and how sean and david are friends is how the people of any kind can be friends
@talwinder ,well sean did kind of judge david by his character because of how he thought he was tough even though he wasnt all tough... and he didnt judge david by his wheelchair.
I agree with cripple egyption guy (taha) because it seemed like the book was mostly about david walking or david committing sucide but in the end nobody thought that it would be about david and seans companianship and it showed how strong their friendship got even when they hated eachother when they met eachother, and now their very good friends.
the main idea is that you treat the person how you wanted to be treated. when david and sean first met they sean said to david your in wheel chair and david said you didnt see snyone in a wheel chair before sean tried to give david symphty that made david really mad and started the fight. When sean understood that david deosnt want to be treated like a special person or a hadicaped person they became friends.
@ crippled egyptian pharoah if david and sean hadn't become friends because of the hints david was going to suicide would they still had become friends if so how diffrent?
i think the main idea of Rebound friendship. i think so because when they were at the gorge and before david was crying and sean said he knew how it felt and david didn't believe him. then sean said that he didn't know how it felt to be in a wheelchair but he knew about friendships and how friends help friends like he was helping david get through that tough time. that is why i think the main idea is friendship.
i agree with taha because its true Davids character did show that he had the thought of trying to commit suicied, but the things or people he cherished meant more to him then to just throw his lfe away
I think the main idea of the book is you dont know it untill you tried it sean never knew what it was like to be friends to a handicap person and i bet no one ever thaught that being friends with a person in a wheelchair would be like this you really have to become good friends to understand david just like sean did
so pamela, if david wasnt in a wheelchair then sean would have saw him as just a regular kid and would have let him pass by, instead of talking to eachother and becoming friends?
@pamela i agree if david wasnt in a wheel chair their friendship probally wouldnt even have come to be so the main idea could also be you could find friends in the most unlikely of places
@ canadian mapleleafs david and sean are just symbolic when they say main idea they mean beyond the book and character as in what do they represent so tell me what you think the main idea is?
i agree with u alyassa but i dont think if it wast for david actually being in a wheel chair , sean and david wouldnt have ever been freinds , because remeber how they actually became freinds
i think the main idea is that if your going through struggles dont give up keep trying and get someone to encourage you so you can make the right decissions than just settling with a big burdon on your back and it keeps coming back to hauant you it is good to tell what happend so the problem would be fixed insted of feeling like you want to commit sucide and have all those things bottles up and no one would know why you died or why you killed yourself. so it was a good the main i dea is if you have something that is eating you up inside then you kill yourself but it is better to tell all your problems so someone can help you with it.
i think that the main idea of rebound is not to judge people with their should treat everyone with equality it doesn't matter how diffrent they are.like sharpshooter1948 said.i think that because if sean did judge david at first then he won't have hanged out with david and they would have not became firends.
@ Sharpshooter I quote Mr cheney on this- "Having Equality, doesnt mean that you have fairness"- this means that equality does not always mean that everything is fair. for example, If a person who was very studious, and if he/she scored a high mark on a test if he/she worked very hard on studying, and in contrast there is also a slacker in this person's class, and he also scores a very high mark, equivalent to the person who was very studious, and there were prizes for the top two, and if they were the top two, then therefore the person that actually studied, should deserve more, then the slacker, because he actually strived for the mark, instead of slacking and "guessing" on the test. You said that Everyone is equal no matter how they look, or if they're disabled, or how they feel, and that is true. But does that mean that they deserve the same thing? what if a "disabled" person was very intelligent, and if a normal person was "dumb", and if a teacher thought of everyone as equals, then the teacher would have to give everyone the same marks, and therefore the "Dumb" person would get the same marks as the "disabled" person. Is this what your trying to imply?
@heli and sharpshooter Sean and David's friendship helped David change his path,from suicide to optimism,so maybe there are multiple meanings to the story.
I think that the main idea of this story is caring and friendship, because Sean cared for David and looked after him. Sean didnt judge DAvid by his wheel chair which shows friendship and what a real friend would be like.
I think that the main idea is that you shouldnt feel sorry for people that are disabled because if they dont feel sorry for themselves you shouldnt sorry for them because it kind offensive for example when the teacher would talk slow just because his legs are dead his brain isnt affected and if someone would help me when i dont ask i feel stupid
i think the main idea is to treat everyone the way you want to be treated so if they are disable treat them like you want to be treated. don't think that just because they are short they can't play basketball or just besause they can't walk they can't do things for themselfs like open a door or go roller skating. i also think that the books main idea is to think that what you see is real like all people think that david was some tought guy who did not care but david is a guy who has a soft spot.
@elpresidente i agree with what you said that the main idea could be you can find friends in the most unlikely places because sean and david didn't seem like friends at the beginning of the book. sean didn't even want to see david in the beginning because david just beat him up but got sean in trouble. but in the end of the book sean was preventing david from committing suicide. they looked past each other's differnces and past and ended up friends. so you can find friends in the most unlikely places.
@ cameron if the main idea of the book is about being friends no matter how diffrent they are then why do people david(symbolicly) still treated him diffrently?
gurinder david isnt different he is not an alien he's a normal person he just cant walk many people are in wheechair play all kind of sports like the parolympics were all people who are in wheelchairs play they are way better then us in what they do.
What if the main idea of Rebound is that people are different,and they just have a different way of doing things.For David,his difference is legs that dont work,but he uses a wheelchair to overcome small differences that are more like obstacles.All those differences can lead to misery,but David overcame it even when he was about to die.Rebound is supposed to be read to teach us about our lives.So when David is treated differently,it is because that happens in this world.
There are many different main ideas, all you guys have identified many of them. The important ones are the ones that resonate with you the reader. The book is about what you believe it is about. That is the only way you will learn the message.
True Friendships, Not being judgmental, are just the beginning
also to think about perseverance (David fights through his challenges)
the issue of labelling "disabled" is an issue...to put it in quotations marks is to understand that who are we to call anyone disabled. Labelling people tends to lend itself to being judgmental (thus judging a book by its cover).
@ stephanie i agree with you but are people really "disabled" what would you consider a "disabled" person also do some people really treat others the sameway they want to be treated?
@canadian leafs David isn't an alien,and he is different.People treat David differently.People like Mr.MCully are unaware of giving special treatments,and you could relate that to people in the real world that try to be nice to people just because they pity them,when they are the people who should be pitied.
thats what i am trying to say in this world we treat people who are in wheelchair differrntly which makes those people mad which allows suicide they make people feel guests in their own home.
@master chief what you said was a bit confusing but i don't agree that the main idea is to not take pity on people who are "disabled" because yes david was annoyed by that but it was not the main idea. it should just be learned throughout the book.
@ jan101 yes change reality there for change the way people treat others in the world we live in today we cant change the way others act but we can educate them to act better
sean and david's friendship did help david change his decision but maybe it wasn't just friendship that help.maybe you are right there are multple meaning it depends on what you think.
@benG i agree everything does happen for a reason but it doesnt mean its unchangable when women couldnt vote that happened for a reason but it got changed so what im trying to say is that we cant just execpt that it happens because it happens we gotta change soemthing that deosnt make sense
@canadian leafs If a person is treated different,like David,doesn't it mean he is different? Because he doesn't use a certain method to move,doesn't that mean he does things differently,making him different?
Talwinder i agree with u because we really dont have the right to say that David is disabled. David isnt disabled as long as he deosnt think that he is. sure he cant do everthning he imagines to do but still he is capable of doing more than we can expect he can.
The main idea of the book to me is : Camaraderie (About Davids and Sean Freind ship building up)Because at start david and sean got into a fist fight, at the end of the book they went to davids wheechair basketball game and david game him a picture of himself for him to cherish etc. So i think the main idea of the book is Camaraderie
ReplyDeletei think the main idea of this book was to not judge a book by its cover ... sean didnt judge david by his wheelchair and now there like best friends !
ReplyDeleteI think the main idea of rebound is that it is possible to change your path of where you are going and what you can achieve.In the book,David started as a basketball player,and then had an accident and became ''disabled''.He kept taking risks and sucking people with him like a black hole,into danger.I thought the inevitable would be death,that he would succumb to self destruction but he was able to change his path.How close he was to killing himself,to end it all,but he overcame it.At the end of the book he was back like he was before taking risks,edgy and happy,but still determined to finding a ''cure''.David changed his path of depression into the path of optimism and hope.It is still ''blind faith'' but it's healthy to keep optimistic but still be realistic.
ReplyDeleteI think that the main idea of "Rebound" is not to judge someone just by their appearance. In this case Sean thought differently about David because he was in a wheelchair. But when he got to know David more he thought of him differently.
ReplyDeleteThe main idea of rebound is to personally strive for equaility in all aspects of life like a wheel chair but the wheel chair in this case is symbolic of anything from a mental,physical,or emotional, 'disability" and how we should not subconsiously put our selfs on top of others ever
ReplyDeletethe main idea of Rebound to me was freindship, becausev of how Sean and David had practicly hated each other at the begining of the book, and as they learned each others characters better, they became closer. Throughout the book thier frendship grew, and so did there characters but over all i think the main idea of the book is friendship.
ReplyDeleteI agree with talwinder, that the main idea is about companionship because most of the book is about sean and david and how their working together on their problems and somehow they always work their problems out, and in the end it payed off because they became very good friends and david became more open to sean about his problems because of what happened at the gorge.
ReplyDelete@Samii, sean didn't judge david by his wheelchair, but did sean judge david by his character? explain why or why not.
ReplyDeletethe main idea of the book rebound is you should treat everyone with equality no matter how diffrent they are physiclly, mentaly, emotionly. The book rebound was useing the "wheelchair" as something symbolic to represent how some people treat others, just because they are diffrent ether physilly, mentaly, emotionly, race or colour of their skin.
ReplyDelete@Gurinder , You don't have the right to call david Disabled, who are we to call him disabled?
ReplyDeleteI believe that the main idea of the book is that you should cherish life and keep your ties with all those you care about.I thought this because there were very brief hints in which David was to commit suicide, but instead, he didnt. This could be because he reviewed his case with all those he care about, including Sean, and at the end of the book, he showed that their friendship was more then just going around places together and hanging out, he made a self portrait, which he would never do in the early stages of the book. This shows his attitude towards Sean and then therefore, if he remembered this, or if anyone recalls this, they could not be sane to commit suicide if you have something to live for(friendship).
ReplyDelete@ PamelaaSuccessful the wheelchair is symbolic. if david wasnt in a wheelchair then do you think the same thing would have happened?
ReplyDelete@ talwinder gurinder had quotation marks around the word "disabled" it didn't mean he is saying david is disabled but just couldn't think of a better word
ReplyDelete@Talwinder There's quotation marks around disabled.
ReplyDelete@ talwinder,
ReplyDeletenote that Ultimate Dragovian put "disabled" in quotes, meaning that it is so-called, disabled, noted in the book
ya i agree wuth talwinder
ReplyDeleteI agree with cripple (Taha) because he does show his attitude towards sean and the commiting sucide i think he changed his mind when sean came and said don't do it .. he did it for the friendship
ReplyDeletethe main idea is that just that friends care for one another and don't just forget about them.and that any kind of person such as a persons skin colour or disabilities are equal.the reason i think that is my main idea is because how the wheelchair is symbolic to say that the person is different in someway, and how sean and david are friends is how the people of any kind can be friends
ReplyDelete@talwinder ,well sean did kind of judge david by his character because of how he thought he was tough even though he wasnt all tough... and he didnt judge david by his wheelchair.
ReplyDeleteYeah but cripple He did put it in qoutation marks but still .. we cant a person disable if we aren't in his shoes.
ReplyDeleteI agree with cripple egyption guy (taha) because it seemed like the book was mostly about david walking or david committing sucide but in the end nobody thought that it would be about david and seans companianship and it showed how strong their friendship got even when they hated eachother when they met eachother, and now their very good friends.
ReplyDeleteat nida ,
ReplyDeleteIf David was not in a wheelchair i think that Sean would of looked at him as a normal kid that is the same as Sean.
the main idea is that you treat the person how you wanted to be treated. when david and sean first met they sean said to david your in wheel chair and david said you didnt see snyone in a wheel chair before sean tried to give david symphty that made david really mad and started the fight. When sean understood that david deosnt want to be treated like a special person or a hadicaped person they became friends.
ReplyDeletethe main idea of the story is you shouldnt judge someone by the way they act but by how they are after you get to understand them
ReplyDelete@ crippled egyptian pharoah if david and sean hadn't become friends because of the hints david was going to suicide would they still had become friends if so how diffrent?
ReplyDeletei think the main idea of Rebound friendship. i think so because when they were at the gorge and before david was crying and sean said he knew how it felt and david didn't believe him. then sean said that he didn't know how it felt to be in a wheelchair but he knew about friendships and how friends help friends like he was helping david get through that tough time. that is why i think the main idea is friendship.
ReplyDelete@talwinder, if you think that "disable" isnt a appropriate word what word would you use for it !!! ?
ReplyDeleteI agree with cameron because they did care about eachother, in the inside and outside.
ReplyDeletei agree with taha because its true Davids character did show that he had the thought of trying to commit suicied, but the things or people he cherished meant more to him then to just throw his lfe away
ReplyDeleteI think the main idea of the book is you dont know it untill you tried it
ReplyDeletesean never knew what it was like to be friends to a handicap person and i bet no one ever thaught that being friends with a person in a wheelchair would be like this you really have to become good friends to understand david just like sean did
so pamela, if david wasnt in a wheelchair then sean would have saw him as just a regular kid and would have let him pass by, instead of talking to eachother and becoming friends?
ReplyDeleteturkish:d give exzamples why should you not judge someone the way they act
ReplyDelete@pamela i agree if david wasnt in a wheel chair their friendship probally wouldnt even have come to be so the main idea could also be you could find friends in the most unlikely of places
ReplyDelete@ Gurinder
ReplyDeleteIs there a better word you can call David exept for "disabled" ?
i agree with el presidente
ReplyDelete@ canadian mapleleafs david and sean are just symbolic when they say main idea they mean beyond the book and character as in what do they represent so tell me what you think the main idea is?
ReplyDeletei agree with u alyassa but i dont think if it wast for david actually being in a wheel chair , sean and david wouldnt have ever been freinds , because remeber how they actually became freinds
ReplyDeleteI think the main idea of rebound is that it is possible to change your way of your life where you are going and what you can achieve.
ReplyDeletei think the main idea is that if your going through struggles dont give up keep trying and get someone to encourage you so you can make the right decissions than just settling with a big burdon on your back and it keeps coming back to hauant you it is good to tell what happend so the problem would be fixed insted of feeling like you want to commit sucide and have all those things bottles up and no one would know why you died or why you killed yourself. so it was a good the main i dea is if you have something that is eating you up inside then you kill yourself but it is better to tell all your problems so someone can help you with it.
ReplyDelete@Pamela His legs stopped working,so he did things differently.How about ''different''.
ReplyDeletei think that the main idea of rebound is not to judge people with their should treat everyone with equality it doesn't matter how diffrent they are.like sharpshooter1948 said.i think that because if sean did judge david at first then he won't have hanged out with david and they would have not became firends.
ReplyDeleteyou could say challenged instead of disabled
ReplyDelete@ Sharpshooter
ReplyDeleteI quote Mr cheney on this-
"Having Equality, doesnt mean that you have fairness"- this means that equality does not always mean that everything is fair. for example, If a person who was very studious, and if he/she scored a high mark on a test if he/she worked very hard on studying, and in contrast there is also a slacker in this person's class, and he also scores a very high mark, equivalent to the person who was very studious, and there were prizes for the top two, and if they were the top two, then therefore the person that actually studied, should deserve more, then the slacker, because he actually strived for the mark, instead of slacking and "guessing" on the test. You said that Everyone is equal no matter how they look, or if they're disabled, or how they feel, and that is true. But does that mean that they deserve the same thing? what if a "disabled" person was very intelligent, and if a normal person was "dumb", and if a teacher thought of everyone as equals, then the teacher would have to give everyone the same marks, and therefore the "Dumb" person would get the same marks as the "disabled" person. Is this what your trying to imply?
@El presidente if david wasnt in a wheel chair there wouldnt even be a book :p
ReplyDelete@heli and sharpshooter Sean and David's friendship helped David change his path,from suicide to optimism,so maybe there are multiple meanings to the story.
ReplyDeleteI think that the main idea of this story is caring and friendship, because Sean cared for David and looked after him. Sean didnt judge DAvid by his wheel chair which shows friendship and what a real friend would be like.
ReplyDeleteI think that the main idea is that you shouldnt feel sorry for people that are disabled because if they dont feel sorry for themselves you shouldnt sorry for them because it kind offensive for example when the teacher would talk slow just because his legs are dead his brain isnt affected and if someone would help me when i dont ask i feel stupid
ReplyDeletei think the main idea is to treat everyone the way you want to be treated so if they are disable treat them like you want to be treated. don't think that just because they are short they can't play basketball or just besause they can't walk they can't do things for themselfs like open a door or go roller skating. i also think that the books main idea is to think that what you see is real like all people think that david was some tought guy who did not care but david is a guy who has a soft spot.
ReplyDeleteYes, El Presidente i agree with you could call it challenged
ReplyDelete@ pharoah you have to be balanced both fair and equal no ones perfect but we try our best to do whats right
ReplyDelete@elpresidente i agree with what you said that the main idea could be you can find friends in the most unlikely places because sean and david didn't seem like friends at the beginning of the book. sean didn't even want to see david in the beginning because david just beat him up but got sean in trouble. but in the end of the book sean was preventing david from committing suicide. they looked past each other's differnces and past and ended up friends. so you can find friends in the most unlikely places.
ReplyDelete@ cameron if the main idea of the book is about being friends no matter how diffrent they are then why do people david(symbolicly) still treated him diffrently?
ReplyDeletegurinder david isnt different he is not an alien he's a normal person he just cant walk many people are in wheechair play all kind of sports like the parolympics were all people who are in wheelchairs play they are way better then us in what they do.
ReplyDeleteWhat if the main idea of Rebound is that people are different,and they just have a different way of doing things.For David,his difference is legs that dont work,but he uses a wheelchair to overcome small differences that are more like obstacles.All those differences can lead to misery,but David overcame it even when he was about to die.Rebound is supposed to be read to teach us about our lives.So when David is treated differently,it is because that happens in this world.
ReplyDelete@ sharpshooter beacuse thats reality however ugly it may be so personally we have to do our best to change that
ReplyDeleteThere are many different main ideas, all you guys have identified many of them. The important ones are the ones that resonate with you the reader. The book is about what you believe it is about. That is the only way you will learn the message.
ReplyDeleteTrue Friendships, Not being judgmental, are just the beginning
also to think about perseverance (David fights through his challenges)
the issue of labelling "disabled" is an issue...to put it in quotations marks is to understand that who are we to call anyone disabled. Labelling people tends to lend itself to being judgmental (thus judging a book by its cover).
i agree with El Presidente challenge would be a better word to use then "diabled"
ReplyDelete@ Canadian Leafs
ReplyDeleteI concur, though People also play wheelchair basketball even though there perfectly fine.
@ stephanie i agree with you but are people really "disabled" what would you consider a "disabled" person also do some people really treat others the sameway they want to be treated?
ReplyDelete@canadian leafs David isn't an alien,and he is different.People treat David differently.People like Mr.MCully are unaware of giving special treatments,and you could relate that to people in the real world that try to be nice to people just because they pity them,when they are the people who should be pitied.
ReplyDeletethats what i am trying to say in this world we treat people who are in wheelchair differrntly which makes those people mad which allows suicide they make people feel guests in their own home.
ReplyDeleteSharpshooter, it is because that people feel pity for him and that shows they treat him differently
ReplyDelete@master chief what you said was a bit confusing but i don't agree that the main idea is to not take pity on people who are "disabled" because yes david was annoyed by that but it was not the main idea. it should just be learned throughout the book.
ReplyDeletechange what? reality?
ReplyDeleteYa I agree with sharpshooter1948 because friends will always become friend no matter how different they are and what they do.
ReplyDelete@ el presidente everything happens for a reason just like how everyone gets treated in this world
ReplyDelete@ cameron why do people pitty other what would you say is the reason?
ReplyDelete@ jan101 yes change reality there for change the way people treat others in the world we live in today we cant change the way others act but we can educate them to act better
ReplyDeleteit shows that the people in real life feel sorry for the disabled sharpshooter
ReplyDeletesean and david's friendship did help david change his decision but maybe it wasn't just friendship that help.maybe you are right there are multple meaning it depends on what you think.
ReplyDeleteYa master chief you never know a challenged person could be bad unless you know their background
ReplyDelete@benG i agree everything does happen for a reason but it doesnt mean its unchangable when women couldnt vote that happened for a reason but it got changed so what im trying to say is that we cant just execpt that it happens because it happens we gotta change soemthing that deosnt make sense
ReplyDelete@ cameron just how are people "disabled" and they feel sorry for him is it because they are diffrent?
ReplyDelete@canadian leafs If a person is treated different,like David,doesn't it mean he is different? Because he doesn't use a certain method to move,doesn't that mean he does things differently,making him different?
ReplyDeleteTalwinder i agree with u because we really dont have the right to say that David is disabled.
ReplyDeleteDavid isnt disabled as long as he deosnt think that he is.
sure he cant do everthning he imagines to do but still he is capable of doing more than we can expect he can.
@ cameron and you give an example in rebound??
ReplyDeletethe reason is what happened to make the disabled disabled sharpshooter and that is why they show pitty
ReplyDeleteokay he does things differrently deosnt mean he is different
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