Discussing The Theme Of Illness In John Foster's Novel

( Chapter 3) Naked in the warm June sunshine, six or seven hundred little boys and girls were running with shrill yells over the lawns, or playing ball games, or squatting silently in twos and threes among the flowering shrubs. The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees.The air was drowsy with the murmur of bees and helicopters (Huxley 30).

Basically, the narrator is a boy or male character that states that he hasn’t seen his beloved in seven whole days. A beloved, is a person that one loves or cares for deeply. The boy apparently became ill and it takes sudden control of his body mentally and physically. Great examples of imagery and emotion stated were “Illness has invaded me” (II.2), “and I barely sense my own body” (II.4), “Should the master physicians come to me” (II.5), and lastly “because my illness cannot be diagnosed”. (II.8)

Illness is never a pretty scene, it can leave a devastating path of destruction. Illness embodies many complex meanings encrypted within a text, and it's rarely just illness. Sickness can show paralysis of a character, the character can be unknowing death, it can show symbolic immortal, or illustrate wholesome destruction. The French Revolution was a battle between the the wealthy and the poverty stricken, and with poverty comes disease. Illness illustrates many pictures, and the physical illness usually ends up a bonus to the story; this can be seen embodied within The Tale of Two Cities.

According to the “(CDC) Center of Disease Control heart disease is the number one leading cause of death in america. If you have heart disease then you have a higher chance of cardiac arrest or a heart attack.”

While most of the population has not attended medical school for six or more years, every patient still needs to understand what is wrong with them. Similarly, while readers of a medical narrative aren’t experts on the medical topics they are reading about, but they still need to understand the story. Books written about illness can be confusing for a reader who isn’t familiar with that condition, which makes the author's job to explain the condition, while still maintaining an interesting story line. Metaphors and similes help to bridge the gap of understanding between patients and doctors, and readers and authors. When someone is unfamiliar with medical terms, giving a scientific definition of a diagnosis does no good, that is

The chapter begins with the author, Thomas C. Foster, describing a hypothetical situation about a sixteen year old boy that he calls “Kip”. Foster continues on, outlining Kip’s journey to the A&P; Kip suffers through various trials such as an encounter with a German shepherd and seeing his dream girl with his nemesis. When the girl, Karen, sees Kip, she repeatedly laughs while Kip buys a loaf of bread. He then decides to lie about his age and join the military, regardless of the consequences. After concluding the hypothetical situation, Foster declares that Kip’s entire trip to the store was a quest. Foster refutes any possible dissenters by introducing an analogy comparing different aspects of the Kip’s journey to a “real quest”; he

The narrator’s mysterious illness exemplifies the tenets of Dark Romanticism. Supposedly the narrator is told that he is mad and he refuses to accept this ; therefore, he tells the story on how he

The heart disease is one of the killer diseases among the American women. The heart disease is a heart group disease and the heart's blood vessel system. The most common type of heart disease is the Coronary heart disease. The Coronary disease affects the human blood vessels in the heart causing a heart attack or the angina (Gregson, 2009). Angina is a type of condition whereby an individual experiences chest pains in case the heart fails to get enough blood. An individual usually experiences sharp pressing chest pains but sometimes the back, shoulders and arms are also affected. Some of the

The clearest illness was that of Septimus, in ‘Mrs. Dalloway’. Septimus suffered from shell-shock, a result of the First World War. This illness in turn brought about an

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, about one in four American adults suffer from a mental disorder. This means that 57.7 out of 217.8 million people over the age of 18 are ill; never mind that mental illnesses are the leading cause of disability in Canada and the United States. Holden Caulfield, the controversial main character of J.D Salinger’s novel Catcher in the Rye, spends much of the book wandering through the streets of New York City. Kicked out of boarding school for the umpteenth time, he does many odd things: he calls a prostitute, tries to befriend a taxi driver, drinks with middle aged women, and sneaks into his own house in the middle of the night. While many of these things seem outré, some may even go as

Illness is defined as a disease of the body or mind; poor health; sickness. Not only is it a disease, but it’s also evil and wickedness. Let’s travel through Shakespeare’s Macbeth to see how Shakespeare proves this to be true. While Macbeth’s power expands, his physical illness shows his evilness. Lady Macbeth’s increasing physical illness represents her growing guilt. As evil and guilt appear more and more, it makes clear the decrease in mental stability. By examining illness, one can determine that physical illness is a metaphor for the illness of their minds.

approach is to draw a parallel between the narrator's illness and Gilman's own breakdown and subsequent

In regards to the medical aspect, the anxiety reveals itself in the way that the narrator is attempting to give his side of the story. He has admitted to his extremely nervous behavior, yet later in the paragraph states, “Hearken! and observe how healthily- how calmly, I can tell you the whole story” (Poe 40).

Congenital heart diseases (CHDs) are the most prevalent of all birth defects and the leading cause of death in the first year of life, (1) with an annual prevalence ranging from six to twelve affected infants per 1,000 live births. (2)

The most common, and most preventable, heart disease of all is coronary artery disease. This is caused when blockages develop in the blood vessels