Describe the story you enjoyed reading most. Discuss the story in terms of PLOT, THEME, CHARACTER, SETTING, LANGUAGE, TITLE etc.
I enjoy reading “The Steel Windpipe” because of its mood and the style of the writer. The content is fresh and the theme is clearly depicted through the characters. The plot starts in a moderate manner, with the new doctor browsing through his books. I was about to think about reading another story when the complication pulled me back into the story. This is the amazing “X”- factor of the story. Just when you get bored, you get pulled back so fast you never want to stop. This attraction is also part of my admiration for the writer.
The girl who needs an operation is the complication and the reactions of the mother, the grandmother and the doctor is clearly shown. From their reactions, the theme is clear for all to see. The mother and grandmother had not sent the child to the doctor earlier for treatment, because they did not trust the doctor, which is ironic, since the doctor himself is doubtful of himself at first.
However, back to the subject, this is probably one of the old-fashioned stubborn thinkings. The women in that period , were probably housewives who stayed at home, thus they did not get in contact with the new happenings outside their houses.
To the doctor and hospital staff, it is crucial that the girl has the operation, in order to keep to keep her alive. The old-fashioned thinking can be understandable, but I think the grandmother was too stubborn and the mother was a bit unreasonable. They need the doctor’s help, yet they refused to listen to him, even to the extent that the hospital had to keep the two women at bay. After the operation, instead of being anxious, the mother demanded, “ Well?”. This is so ungrateful on the mother’s part. If you need the other party’s help, you should at least be polite rather than rude.
In the story, the doctor is mostly seen to be more favorable than the two women. However, he has his own faults too. Firstly, he does not understand the two women’s thinkings and barked at them. Despite this, he is gentler towards them at the end of the story. This is an alternative side of him that we see besides the bookish and non-confidence self.
If Marguerite’s caregiver was the one making the decision, because she is emotionally attached to Marguerite, she would have chosen to treat Marguerite and not Sarah. However, a member of the angiography team could have been opposed to the idea of treating the younger patient because he/she might have thought that they were discriminating against Marguerite because of her age, when in reality, they evaluated the chances of survival of both patients without being emotionally attached to one or
As the story begins, the unnamed doctor is introduced as one who appears to be strictly professional. “Aas often, in such cases, they weren’t telling me more than they had to, it was up to me to tell them; that’s why they were spending three dollars on me.” (par. 3) The doctor leaves the first impression that he is one that keeps his attention about the job and nothing out of the ordinary besides stating his impressions on the mother, father and the patient, Mathilda. Though he does manage to note that Mathilda has a fever. The doctor takes what he considers a “trial shot” and “point of departure” by inquiring what he suspects is a sore throat (par. 6). This point in the story, nothing remains out of the ordinary or questionable about the doctor’s methods, until the story further develops.
She continually moans “Mama, Mama, Mama.” He describes this experience as one of the most terrible things that he’s ever seen. The whole time he yearns to hold her hand and just tell her that it will be okay. However, none of the doctors seem to notice her pain and he himself struggles to make a move until later when he holds her hand and says, “It’s OK, dear, it’s alright”. This experience reminded me of the many complaints that patients sometimes make that some doctors treat patients more as problems or tasks than as real people who need to be cared for not only scientifically but also with humanity. The narrator wonders whether this is treatment of patients is not necessarily intentional but just a result of the sleeplessness, stress, and excessive responsibility on doctors. I agree with the narrator because, its not that doctors don’t are immune to humanity and don’t care about their patients, they are under a lot of pressure and stress which can impede them and cause them to forget that their patients need to be treated with comfort and care. I liked how later when the narrator asked a psychiatrist she said that he would have to “get used to it” but doesn’t have to “become like them”. In essence she reminds him that just because one person acts a specific way he doesn’t have
Some lives were saved, while others were not. Emotional attachment was a repeating image of female doctors creating a bond too close to their patients, male doctors did not want their emotions to interrupt their work. Dr. Yang is soon off to Switzerland for a better opportunity and compliments Dr. Karev with a cocky attitude “You are good, competent, think fast with good hands, but you will never be as good as me.” The cockiness and fire elevate Dr. Yang over the head of Karev with her confidence in what she does, not quite often do you hear a woman verbalize this to a man. Another scene, Dr. Miranda Bailey, the chief, is the bossy type to stand for her position and is dubbed as being ¨bitchy¨, which can be discouraging compared to the male chief beforehand who was known as being collected and having everything under control. Last, Dr. Grey is suddenly asked to move to D.C. with her husband for his new job and start at a new hospital. This opportunity gave her husband a couple days off to make a decision and to stay home and take care of the children while Dr.
All throughout the story, the author’s point of view of the young lady Jig is indecisive and influential. Throughout the story, Jig seems powerless, confused, and uncertain. She alters her opinion about the operation and appears doubtful about whether she needs to have the operation or not. Jig appears to comprehend that her association with the man has successfully...
In the eighteenth century, Women were portrayed as powerless beneath the men because, men were powerful everything was given to them once they became men and wife. According to Hicks, Jennifer “Divorce was quite rare in the 1800s and if one was to occur, men were automatically given legal control of all property and children”, In the story of an hour Mrs. Mallard who was portrayed as weak because of her heart problems was told that her husband had died from a railroad disaster. Literature: A World of Writing “It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husband's friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard's name leading the list of "killed." He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.” Mrs. Mallard would have lost who she was at that moment in time with her husband gone who was there to take care of her? or to help with the bills? Many questions should have been running through Mrs. Mallard’s head in that time period the men was the head of the household Mrs. Mallard went upstairs to be alone and to t...
I enjoyed the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was filled with adventure and I liked how both conflicts were resolved at the end. I chose this book because Mrs. Donius recommended it to me. She said she loved it and it was one of her favorites. I would recommend this book to a wide range of readers. Anyone from the age of thirteen and older could enjoy this novel.
I chose the three short stories to write about based on my views of each. I picked three completely different stories to read and write about, so I can at the end, form my opinion.
A couple, Jig and the American man, were sitting at the train station, drinking and trying to make an important decisions. Jig has fear of the unknown because they are deciding whether or not to get an ’operation’. The author goes around the fact, using minimalist work because Jig does not want the abortion. The American man wants Jig to have the abortion, but Jig is scared and knows it is wrong. This shows their fear while thinking about having the baby and how they think they will mess up their plans of travelling the world. Jig continuously asked the American Man if he will still love her no matter what decision she makes. Jig has the fear of losing him based on her decision of having the operation or not. Jig had fear of the unknown whole time in making the decision to have the baby, and if she was going to lose the American
To begin with, we see that the doctor is one of the main characters of greed. The doctor’s personality throughout the book is selfish and especially greedy. This doctor is like no other other doctor, he is the exact opposite of what people would expect a doctor to be like. He only cares about is himself. This is shown when he says, “Has he any money” the doctor demanded “no,they never have any
Werlock, Abby H. P. "'The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife'." The Facts On File Companion to the American Short Story, Second Edition. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2009. Bloom's Literature. Facts On File, Inc. Web. 22 Apr. 2014. The article talks about the letter sent by Hemingway to his father about the story “The Doctor and Doctor’s wife”. It also explores the theme used in the story and the settings.
in the end this happens to work out in a good way. The doctor, being
o The doctor is the most dynamic character as, through his tactics changes his attitude. At first the doctor tries kindness and almost sides with the daughter over the parents (line 22). As the story goes on he tries scaring the girl into submission and (line 25), as his anger and frustration build, eventually resorts to force (line 28).
I choose to read the book “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker. The book talks about the life of an African-American lady by the name of Celie that lived in the southern United States in the late 1930s. It addresses the numerous issues that included the low ranking of American social culture. In the book it talks about how she wrote books to God because the father she had would beat her and rape her. He also got her pregnant and then she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. Her father end up taking the baby shortly after birth.