Asperger's Syndrome In House Rules

In the realistic fiction novel, House Rules, by Jodi Picoult, Jacob Hunt, an 18 year old boy, has Asperger’s syndrome, making him very sensitive to lights, noise, having his schedule change, and even the color orange, is accused of muder of his best freind. But some of the perks to having Asperger’s syndrome is being exceptionally bright. He knows every aspect of the forensics sciences and goes to crime scenes that he hears about on his police scanner his mom gave for his birthday when he was fifteen. But he doesn’t just watch, Jacob can solve most of them before the police and so he gives them free advice. Jacob has seen every crimebuster’s episode ever made. He keeps notebooks full of the evidence. He makes a new one for every episode he sees, even if he has seen it a dozen times. He lives with his mother, Emma Hunt, who has to deal with weird looks every time Jacob has a meltdown in public, but always manages to get through it. She is a single mother whose husband left her after Jacob was diagnosed with

When they find Jess’s body at a wall behind her house, they know for certain that Jess was murdered. They show the crime scene on T.V when Jacob’s mom notices that Jacob’s quilt is wrapped around her body. Her mother takes Jacob to the police station for questionin. When they don’t let her come in for the questioning and take him into custody, she feels betrayed because she did not want her son to stay in jail. She drove to the first law office she saw, the one that belongs to Oliver. They march back into the police station and demand that her son come home. They don’t let him though and take him to jail. Eventualy they take him to court to set a bail. Jacob is allowed to go home but cannot leave the house and must be under adult supervision at all times. They go to court multiple times and try to prove Jacob inocent. Finaly it is all over and they wait for the answer from the