The Roles Of Dr. Malcolm Sayer In Awakenings

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Challenges: How they can make you a better person Every day we are faced with challenges we must overcome, some challenges we face are harder than others and we may require help to break through the barriers we face. If we do not succeed with the challenges that are thrown at us, then we do not grow as an individual. With Dr. Malcolm Sayer in the movie Awakenings, he has trouble with people. At first Dr. Sayer cannot face any challenge that requires him to interact with people unless it involves the things he is passionate about, such as work. Dr. Sayer seems to be a lonely man with severe social anxiety, he would much rather be at home reading or studying his plants than interacting with people. He had severe difficulties facing challenges with people, he was awkward to be around, and he was very…show more content…
When he arrived at Bainbridge Hospital, he came to apply for a job at the neurology lab, but it turned out he could only work as a chronic mental patient. So instead of facing a challenge and going to work with the mental patients he was going to walk out, but when he found out that he could get the job, he took on the challenge and started the job. When Dr. Sayer started the job he was extremely edgy, one of the main reasons he couldn’t work with people was because they were so unpredictable, so it seems sort of ironic that he was working in a mental institution. Of all the people in at the institute the only ones he found interesting were the patients who didn’t seem to be alive. So when he discovered that they could catch a ball and could walk or eat under certain circumstances, he was intrigued. Because investigating this mystery was work-related Dr. Sayer took on the

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