Year of Wonders “The plague will make heroes of us all, whether we will or no” ‘Year of Wonders’ by Geraldine Brooks explores the fearful and heroic way the villagers in Eyam respond to a crisis. As the plague outbreaks, the villagers are faced with immense challenges, as some are forced to show courage and compassion, whereas others are seen as selfish and uncharitable. Brook contrasts the strength of women and their heroic gestures to the weaknesses of men as the villagers are faced with great tragedies. It is made evident that the women in the novel are the powerful support network of the community. Anna Frith the protagonist of the novel is viewed as heroic as she is “a woman who has faced more terrors than many warriors.” (p.15) Anna is faced with the death of her husband Sam Frith and her children Tom and Jamie as she has “tended so many bodies, people I loved and people I barely knew” (p.8) This shows the beginning Anna’s strengths, as she deals with the bodies of those killed by the plague and shows her willingness and courage to help others.
Eventually the village becomes more welcoming of her because of her cooperation. Hester is able to find her place in the town again, doing her needle work, but also helping people in need. Although Hester isn’t as blissful and cheerful as before because of being scorned by the cruel children, she still gets by and raises Pearl as best as she can. This in all shows how Hester has made an example of herself, turning a negative thing into a positive situation. The crucible has shown pride and dignity in a different way.
Despite the fact that she meet met some obstacles toward the road to achieve her goal, such as lack of financial support and some volunteers, she still hold held her dauntless persuasion will. Her goal of helping all of the poor in India was hardly achieved. However, her devotion towards the poor won her respect throughout the world and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. Because of Mother Teresa’s rising reputation, she was able to provide the poor with clean variety of clean water and medicine. In addition, she took a great consideration on of the sick people in
This statement used by Blackwell can be especially motivating for women. For the greater part of history, women have generally been considered inferior to men, however the prestige and importance of medical career may play a huge factor in the motivation for the students to stop this trend of women inferiority. “Our only hope is in women!” (page 285). These bold words in the address motivate the students with the implication of obligation. Blackwell is motivating her listeners to pursue medicine not only for themselves but also as an obligation to improve medical practice.
It is important to remember that Seacole went to the Crimea at her own expense as it emphasises her role as the ‘angel of mercy’ because she went there to help others in spite of the racial prejudices she face. Seacole had a big impact on the morale of the troops in the Crimean war by giving them personal care. Seacole was often referred to as ‘mother’ and many would choose her medical help over the unsanitary hospitals. It is clear that Seacole did not offer the best medical help in the Crimea, but because of her previous experiences of cholera outbreaks, “she treated patients suffering from cholera and dysentery” (source V). Similarly, Seacole “was attentive to
While Hester’s “sins” are out in public where all could see, Dimmesdale and Chillingworth hide their debaucheries from public view. The persecution of Hester strengthens her faith and conviction in the difference between right and wrong. The solitary life Hester is forced to live results in a determined drive to raise Pearl to the best of her ability: “Lonely was Hester’s situation, without a friend on Earth who dared to show himself, she, however, incurred no risk of want” (75). Focused only on bettering her life for Pearl, the townspeople see and benefit from the very
The omniscient narrator in “The Lovers of the Poor” has knowledge of all the true motives and unspoken thoughts of the Ladies and the Poor (Baldick 240). The narrator, even when speaking in the Ladies perspective, because of her all-knowing voice, is critical of the Ladies charity. The Ladies mission is to give money to the poor but as the poem describes, their “clean…pretty money… collected from rose-fingers” (Brooks 63-4) is too good for the Poor they visited and they agree to go elsewhere to find more “worthy” (Brooks 23)
The movie “Patch Adams” is very beautiful and it has a lot of lessons that we can get. The overall message of the movie is we should not focus only on how to treat the disease, but also how we can alleviate the pain that our patients feel and how we can make them happy despite of the illness/sickness that they have. It is true that laughter is the best medicine because through that we can forget the sickness/pain that we feel and we can also relieve easily. We also need to understand the feelings of others, especially to those in the health care profession because they are dealing with patients who have different diseases. Health care professionals are not treating disease but also give the patients hope that they will be cure.
Patch Adams The movie “Patch Adams” is very beautiful and it has a lot of lessons that we can get. The overall message of the movie is we should not focus only on how to treat the disease, but also how we can alleviate the pain that our patients feel and how we can make them happy despite of the illness/sickness that they have. It is true that laughter is the best medicine because through that we can forget the sickness/pain that we feel and we can also relieve easily. We also need to understand the feelings of others, especially to those in the health care profession because they are dealing with patients who have different diseases. Health care professionals are not treating disease but also give the patients hope that they will be cure.
I felt that I could give help in return to those individuals who needed help and had no one to care for them at desperate times when they were sick. I believe that the core of nursing is caring and loving others. Giving quality care and love to the individuals in need gives them hope which in turn helps to speed up recovery. Nursing care is a labor of love which may or may not be appreciated; however the joy derived from caring for others and seeing them feel better makes nurses to want to care more for others. I believe that the focus of nursing is to provide the best quality of care and maintain safety within my scope of practice.