Butterflies are free

by Leonard Gershe

Book Overview

Comedy / Characters: 2 male, 2 femaleScenery: InteriorYoung Don Baker, hero of his mother's children's book series, "Donny Dark" has been blind since birth, his overprotective mother following his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0007EQ7LK
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Scholastic Book Services
• Length: 107 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An hour out of your time

I started reading this book while babysitting. I knew i was going to be babysitting for 8 hours and i needed something to do. I had to read a short play for my english class and i was recommended this book. The first page simply took my breath away. It started the way that i love every book to start! It got me so interested that I could not put the book down! I literallly could not put the book down. I was so interested that I forgot that i was babysitting. The book made me cry and i loved it. It is a great way to show the different kinds of love that people go through and the denials that people are put through because they are afraid of committment. This book took me a total of an hour to read it. started crying because the book was so beautiful and i was also sad that it was over! Its only 80 pages. So, if you have an hour free, take the time to read this book! I highly recommend it!

the love of a girl and a blind boy and their problems.

the blind boy loves jill and he wants her to stay with him but she doesn't want to stay only in one place. She wants to be a star and while these problems are there his mother comes and sees the happens. Mother wants her son to be with herself and at the end jillsays yes to don for all life.

'Butterflies'is a testament to the power of love.

"Butterflies are free, and so are we," sings Don Baker, the play's hero. 20-something and blind, Don has just escaped the binds of his overprotective family in Scarsdale, NY, and found solace in an East Village apartment. As he is learning to survive on his own, he meets Jill Tanner, the 19-year old actress who lives next door. Jill is a free spirit, a former hippie, a sweet, impressionable, ditzy-yet-perceptive girl. She has never known the word "commitment" or its meaning. Don has never known freedom.A match is made even through their differences. Don and Jill start to fall for each other, Jill never giving much thought to the fact that Don is blind. That is, until Don's mother appears on the scene, eager to take her son back to Scarsdale. What transpires is a battle to free Don of the perennial 'apron-strings' that bind him. Jill discovers that she must give up some of her freedom if she wants to be with Don, and Mrs. Baker must give her son more if she truly loves him. Leonard Gershe uses humor and pervasive sarcasm to chip away at the intensity of the storyline. He shows how love can help a person change themselves, and does so in a way that can only be described as enthralling. As riske and hilariously funny as it is in the first act is how touching, bittersweet, and poignant it is in the second. It is a human, universal story, a beautiful way of describing different types of love.