1. In the sanctuary of Outcasts By: Chloe Wintle

2. About? This book is about a very well established magazine editor, who’s life goes completely opposite when he finds himself in prison for bank fraud for kiting checks back and forth in his account to cover business expenses.

3. Where? This book takes place at Carville Prison in Louisiana, but this is no regular prison, it’s home to the last people in the United States known to have the disease Leprosy.

4. What is it? Leprosy is Leprosy is a disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae, which causes damage to the skin and the peripheral nervous system. This disease progresses slowly and over time causes deformities and lesions in the skin. It usually happens on places like the eyes, nose, mouth, fingers and toes.

5. The deformities are usually very disfiguring, and that is why that people with this disease were considered outcasts and were kept away from the rest of civilization. It is usually passed through from human-to-human contact. chimpanzees, mangabey monkeys, and nine-banded armadillos can also carry this disease.

6. This disease is similar to tuberculoses, it is a chronic disease, and it produces inflammatory nodules in the skin and nerves over time. Unfortunately the signs and symptoms if this disease occur slowly and over time so it’s difficult to detect it early.

7. At this time, the inmates and the leprosy patients did not associate with each other, but there was something about Neil White, that made him more connective with the patients. To help him pass time he got close with an elderly women suffering with the disease, Ella Bounds.

8. Effect on me This book did effect me, because it was a true story, and it’s weird to think that things like this used to go on. I would recommend this book to people, because it’s not a boring non-fiction book, its very good, and it tells a really good story.

9. Connection This book connects with Anatomy and Physiology because we are learning about the human bodies, and have gone over diseases and this is something that we have not learned yet, and it interested me a lot to learn about this disease. You learn about the disease and how it progresses in your body.

10. Theme The theme of this book is not just leprosy, but also the connection this man made with the patients even though all of the other inmates refused to be around them for fear of catching this disease. The book tells the story of how White becomes friends with them, and the story he tells. They are not so different from everyone else.

11. Evaluation The book was very interesting, one of those books you didn’t want to put down, it was very accurate because the other was there while it was happening. The importance is that people know the truth, and the horribleness that those people had to go through, getting taken away from their families at young ages and being imprisoned for the rest of their lives

12. Cont… The object of the book is for people to realize that people living with leprosy are just regular people and they shouldn’t be feared. The intended audience is young adults I think, and maybe medical people, just so that people realize how awful of lives that people living with leprosy had.