Sound And Fury Analysis

In class, we watched the documentary titled, “Sound and Fury.” The video mostly focused around two brothers (one hearing and one Deaf) and their families, whom were a mixture of hearing and Deaf. The first family consisted of the hearing parents, Mari and Chris Artinian, and their two twin boys, one of whom was Deaf (Peter Artinian Jr.). The next family was made up of two Deaf parents Nita and Peter Artinian Sr., along with oldest child Heather, whom is Deaf and her two brothers. The two grandparents of both father’s Peter and were also included in the film. When Mari and her husband found out that their twin son Peter was Deaf, they were in shock. Mari was devastated and didn’t know what to do at first. They were given the information about cochlear implants and found out that it had a good chance of giving Peter the chance to become apart of the hearing world. They had to make a decision quick because the doctors said that it was best to conduct the surgery as early as possible, in order for increased chances of success. After hearing about this new device, 5 year old Heather tells her parents that she wants a cochlear implant. At first, her father was strongly against it but her mother seemed to be more understanding. When they were alone, Heather and her mother (Nita) would talk about the reasons why she wanted the cochlear implant.

Her doctors told her family that her results would be minimal but she still took the chance and went along with it. Her surgery was completed and a success, she then went on to speech therapy because no one could understand what she was saying. She made progress and saw sports as her way in. From then on, she worked hard throughout school with sports, speech therapy and extracurriculars. Heather mentioned that this took a lot of dedication but she was up for it. The result was graduating high school and going to her dream school, Georgetown