She states in the first paragraph “… I haven’t noticed any women like me on television…” yet her next paragraph is centered on a television show about a woman with MS. Mairs tries to redeem herself by describing how this woman’s emotional weakness, for running back to her doctor/love interest, is inaccurate, but that is mostly a sexist representation of women and less a misrepresentation of the disabled. Mairs continues the rest of the essay in her mostly hostile fashion. She tosses in many rhetorical devices to the reader which, admittedly, makes her feel somewhat relatable and real. Her informal style of writing makes it seem like she knows her reader on an intimate level, therefor you are more inclined to accept her statements without evidence, succumbing to her requests for disability to be viewed as normal. She wraps up her essay
Although Dorothea was not a psychologist or therapist of any kind she knew that improving conditions for the mentally ill would help them. In one of her testimonials to legislature she shared this “some may say these things cannot be remedied, these furious maniacs are not to be raised from these base conditions. I know they are…I could give many examples. One such is a young woman who was for years ‘a raging maniac’ chained in a cage and whipped to control her acts and words. She was helped by a husband and wife who agreed to take care of her in their home and slowly she recovered her senses”.
Eudora Welty gives us a very illustrated story entitled “A Worn Path.” It is a tale about a little old woman who journeys to the city to obtain some medicine for her sickly grandson. Still, one can’t help but notice the peculiar and even shady ways that she decides to go about reaching this goal. It is clear that Welty wants us to feel uncertain about this seemingly innocent and good-willed grandmother, because she isn’t all that she offers at face-value: She is a con-artist who has become extremely good at what she does through experience and extensive practice. Coincidentally, and unfortunately, this grandmother suffers from a mental illness. Old Phoenix Jackson seems to have no problem dealing with things that someone at a much younger age and in better shape would have issues with.
It can be inferred that John made her obtain this nervous condition because being part of the cult of true womanhood could take a strain on one. She probably was just tired and exhausted from the work. Since he was a physician, everyone including their friends and family believed him. His wife did not even believe she was ill but he
Francesca reveals herself to be an unreliable narrator when she explains her mother’s illness because she is not fully aware of what is happening. When Mia is still in bed on the second day, Francesca questions herself and what people tell her “I’m not quite sure what ‘just a bit down’ means. I’m ‘just a lot down’ and I’m getting out of bed.” (p7). This shows that Francesca does not have the right information about Mia’s illness and is telling the reader what she knows. Francesca has always viewed her mother as the strongest person in the family “…no one in my family has ever pretended that my mother doesn’t make all the decisions.” (p2) so when Mia has a breakdown and stays in her bed with serious depression, it feels to Francesca as if her whole family is falling apart, which does become true when she and
In Fog the old lady is desperately asking for attention. Even when someone is dying beside her she thinks only of herself: ‘I’m a very old woman,’ she mumbled to a constable who had a little book, ‘and they knocked me down… they mighta killed me… they shouldn’t a done that… they’ve broke my hip…aah…!’ In First Flight the boy is asking for attention. Because he has a mental handicap he is forced to try and socialize and be friendly, making his character more likable. A huge disadvantage
Milton Helpern sums death up by stating that “Death may be due to a wide variety of diseases and disorders, but in every case the underlying physiological cause is a breakdown in the body’s oxygen cycle” (pg 67). Not all strokes victims will die. Instead, miniature strokes will little by little arise in physical effects of the body. A wise old woman told Nuland, “Deaths keeps taking little bits of me” (pg 67). The medical report of this woman’s situation says that after every attack she felt a little older and weaker as she became more cautious of walking, forgetful, fragile writing, and life became less significant.
Living with MS (multiple sclerosis) became one of her greatest challenges. “Fighting it is a waste of precious energy”, she said in an online posting to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s web site. “It is only by embracing my MS that I learn life’s greatest lessons.” Adding yet another personal victory to her repertoire, she recently rejoined the speaking circuit after taking a hiatus due to failing eyesight. For an expert lip-reader, low vision is like going deaf all over again. It also meant she couldn’t drive, and had to use a wheelchair because her balance deteriorated.
Helen Sumner, a mother of an unborn child, lies at Mercy Hospital in a comatose condition and is drawing a lot of unnecessary attention. Some (like journalist, Marcia Keaton) believe that Helen is dead and needs to be taken off life support immediately, which Keaton admits is keeping her alive. There are differing opinions on this situation and I feel the need to share my own. Marcia Keaton makes her views on this situation known by expressing her thoughts as it is. She doesn’t sugar-code any of the message and neither will I. Keaton’s main argument for taking Helen off the life support is that it costs too much money and the money can go to better causes than saving the unborn child’s life.
After Stanley leaves for the Four Deuces, but he says, “Not in front of your sister”(P.78). Blanche nervously asks Stella what people have been saying about her. She begins to confess that she was not always so good when she was under the stress of lossing the Belle Reve. She begins to talk frank of being soft and growing old and worrying that she no longer has what it takes to “turn the