Nyle’s Grandma allowed two evacuees, a mother and her very sick son, to settle in her house until the boy got better. The boy’s name was Ezra, and in the beginning Nyle was not happy with him staying at her house. She was sure he was going to die, so she swore she would not let herself get too close to him, she was to afraid she would lose him. Pity overcomes her and they become great friends. Towards the end of the novel Leukemia overcomes Ezra and Nyle is forced to live with the thought that Ezra might be dead.
Her physician husband John “a physician of high standing”, does not believe she is sick. He prescribes the “rest cure” and makes all the narrator’s decisions for her. Her brother also tells her to take phosphates, air and exercise. From the narrator, the reader learns that the people around her refuse to believe that she is truly ill. Her resulting powerlessness pushes her over the edge of insanity: “But what is one to do?” (Gilman 598) Along with characterization, vivid imagery is another essential feature of an enjoyable story.
This destruction occurs when the result of Jimmy’s humor is that his wife, Norma, leaves him for a short while to suffer alone. She eventually returns to aide Jimmy in his final days. Humor also helps him to cope with the other obvious entity in his life which is his cancerous tumor. His use of humor blankets the urgency of his cancer and brushes the issue it under the rug, so to speak. The main character, Jimmy Many Horses has been diagnosed with cancer, and knows he is going to die.
When people are very sick and have to lay in bed for months without showing a bit of progress, as in the majority of the cancer cases, they are in agony.“The Doctor believed that life must be extended as long they have the means and knowledge to do it” (Huttmann 114). This was a very scientific method of thinking. Doctors did not consider the emotional impact of the disease on the patient and the family members. Physicians are supposed to know when a person can have a chance to recuperate from sickness. In Macs case, the Doctor did not get emotionally involved and chose to endlessly approve resuscitation efforts.
She lives with her 17 year old brother. Their mother died from an advanced case of TB that is resistant to medication called MDRTB, leaving them orphans and now Nokubheka has contracted MDRTB. She is taken away from her brother to be treated in an isolation hospital. SHe goes through treatment and is cleared to leave the hospital. She enjoys returning to school and hopes to be able to work someday.
When she works up the courage to tell her boyfriend, Kai, she is afraid that he will leave her because of this news. To her surprise, he does the exact opposite. It actually seems that this tragedy makes Kai appreciate Faye even more as a person and that he falls in love with her even more. Then after reading A Sorrowful Woman, we are informed of a family whose wife of a hardworking man and mother of a little boy is seemingly helpless and very ill. She is so bad off, depressed, and sick that she did not
Bridging the Gap Although Doctor Hata is viewed as a man of honesty, wisdom, and respect in Bedley Run, he lacks the compassion and warmth of a typical father figure. Doc Hata thinks he has done everything in his power to give his daughter a good life so that she can grow up to be a polite, mature, and independent woman. Throughout Sunny’s transformation into a young lady, Hata treats his daughter as if she is already an adult, making sure she is obedient and respectful to everyone. “Yes, poppa,” would be something Sunny have been taught to say to acknowledge her father. Yet, Doc Hata raises his adopted child as a task or a mission, guided by specific principles and rules, instead of a father raising his little girl with love and passion.
Along the way, he meets a woman and falls in love with her. She helps him with his practice and in the process of helping one of the patients with a mental disorder, she is shot and killed. This devastated Patch, but in the end decides that he is still able to help people. This true story about Hunter “Patch” Adams is very psychologically related. For one, in the beginning of the movie when he is on the verge of suicide, he is obviously facing a lot of trauma.
Can religion help the parent forgive it’s own flesh, blood and bone – their child – any given crime? After four years of imprisonment Kenny returns home to stay with his mother, Myrna. For all these years Myrna has forced herself not to think about her son or his crime, but with Kenny’s return she finds herself in a very unpleasant position. In the first couple of months of Kenny’s imprisonment she visits him whenever she can, always asking him the same question: “But why?” (page 3, line 54) and getting the same response: “He knew he’d done wrong,” (page 3, line 56) but the response changes after a few weeks to complete silence. When Myrna gets sick the visits are put to an end.
Roderick’s sister, Madeline, suffers from a similar disease but she is dying off, like “a flower without water”. When Madeline supposedly dies, Roderick and the narrator note the slight smile and flush of color on her face, making her seem alive. Roderick later claims to have heard Madeline’s faint heartbeat and breathing from the vault, leading him to believe that Madeline has not rested in peace but came back from the dead. At the end, Madeline walks to the narrator’s room and Roderick dies from the fright of the events he foresaw would happen. Madeline dies from the exhaustion of not having food for a week and then walking from the vault to the narrator’s room.