The Diving Bell And The Butterfly Analysis

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A point of view through an eye The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is written in the point of view by the editor of the French Elle magazine Jean-Dominique Bauby. Jean-Dominique suffered a sever stroke on December 8, 2005 and the stroke left him in a rare condition known as locked in syndrome which leaves the entire body paralyzed, but the brain continues to function properly. Jean-Dominique was left with some movement left in his head and left eye and he developed a system with the help of a physical therapist. They worked with a special alphabet ordered by the frequent usage of words in the French language, and Bauby would blink whenever the person reached the correct letter. There is much meaning to how Jean-Dominique felt while writing…show more content…
There is so much to do. You can wander off in space or in time, set out for Tierra del Fuego or for King Midas’s court.” In the prologue on pages three and five Bauby describes his body is as if it is a diving bell, a rigid chamber used to transport divers to depth in the ocean. Being under a great depth in the water would put massive pressure on you body giving you limited movement ability, and feeling as if every miniature movement took all your strength, which is exactly what locked-in syndrome has done to Bauby. The stroke causing his incapability has kept him from doing as he pleased before; traveling from place to place, to attend fashion photography shoots or just take a vacation with his model girlfriend. His mind is as he puts it; a butterfly. Butterflies can flutter off to where ever they please just as his thoughts do they can wander off into his childhood, his ambitions, the future, the past, dreams or places he’s gone to or wished to go. His mind is the only place he is independent and is free to continue on as he was before as to how he is…show more content…
Bauby pitied himself at the start of learning his disability, but with time, physical therapy, a special alphabet to help him communicate and excess time to reflect on his position in this rare situation he began to realize that all the freedom he had, we taken for granted. Before Bauby even had the stroke he wasn’t informed on what locked-in syndrome was. After living with locked-in syndrome he began to take noticed that what he first saw as a disability wasn’t something he would stop living for because as far as he was concerned he was still a person able to feel, set goals, communicate and be himself. Even with what he has learned nd grown from adapting to his new way of being it doesn’t pardon the fact of how he was arrogant with all he could have, but ignorant with what he already had but took for granted and didn’t acknowledge until it was the only thing he had left that still cared for him and as much as he cared for it then; his

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