DAVID WYNTER, a doctor in his early fifties, enters a convent where the Nuns welcome him. Then, SISTER MARIE MICHELLE escorts David to a grave. She also hands him a picture of him with a young woman and three year old girl. After seeing the picture, he reminisces about his old times during 1964 in Michingan. 25-years-old David works in a hospital as an intern. David has his future life planned: finish internship, three years general surgery, two years cardiac surgery, Chief Resident, and Professor of Surgery. It’s his plan, and there should be no detours and no distractions. But then he gets drafted to Vietnam. At his first night,there is an attack so he runs to the hospital to start working. Inside the Operation Room, there are 4 medics: …show more content…
RICHIE gives David a tour around their base camp. David investigates that TUAN, one of the prisoners, is also a medic after seeing a small red cross sewn onto his sleeve. David wants to talk with Tuan but SGT. PAIGE …show more content…
They witness a cruel battle scene in a jungle. They also see a group of wounded and helps them aboard the helicopter. “DEATH WISH” O’CONNELL, a news photographer, fakes an injury and also gets on the helicopter. He watches David with no emotional reaction to the carnage and imperviously dealing with the patients. While David checks on wounded patients in their beds, Sgt. Paige comes with prisoner Tuan. Tuan tells David that he was trained from the best and largest hospital in Hanoi for two years. David gives Tuan a textbook for him to look at while he’s waiting to be transferred. They trade little smiles. Next day, Chaplain John takes David and Death Wish to the Orphanage in Soc Trang. In the Orphanage, David meets SISTER MICHELLE, a French woman in her early thirties, and they feel an immediate chemistry between them. They greet each other and head into the rooms where the children stays. There are a hundred children under three years of age, cramped into a several cribs, all suffering from skin disorders, bacterial pneumonia, and other infections. David knows that the nuns desperately want his help, but he politely rejects since he’s a flight surgeon, and he already have great
David is weighed down by his tragic past, thus he is always in an internal fight. With his background as an orthopedic surgeon, markers of Down’s syndrome are very apparent to David when he delivers his daughter. In light of what happened in his childhood to his sister, June, who had a heart defect, David feels compelled to send his daughter to an institution. June’s death, at the age of twelve,
The patient, Kylie Richie, explained that her experience in the armed forces was unique. She reports that her nightly reconnaissance missions around the base in Iraq usually resulted in gunfire, with incoming and outgoing bullets exchanged between the U.S. soldiers and Al Queda sometimes landing in close proximity. She also discusses the distinct sound of the alarm that would go off when there was external grenade rounds fired at the base and how it sounds just like a school bell. Kylie’s often nightmares and flashbacks include running to safe positions, watching bullet tracers fly across the night sky and feeling the ground shake from grenade blast. While sleeping, she also distinguishes her close friends and fellow soldiers’ faces lying dead in the sand. Since her return to the states, Kylie affirmed, “the only way I get a full night’s sleep is if I am fully exhausted from a long day or if I get drunk
David believes he is doing the right thing, but it turns out that by doing what he did, David only pushes his family to their breaking point, causing them to seek consolation in various different ways, which reveals the themes of deceit and grief while also shaping the
Dr. Louis Batiste is a popular local doctor with a generous amount of bedside manners. Dr. Batiste sleeps with Miss Monroe in the carriage house behind his personal home. This particular night Eve was in the carriage house in an old parked carriage in the garage asleep. Comes in is her father and Miss Monroe, Eve catches them in the act. Dr. Batiste tries to brainwash his little girl about what she has just witness. Eve was so upset but could never really wrap her mind around what really happen because she was still a tab bit too young to understand. Roz who is Eve’s mother is the most beautiful woman in the world
“Since you’re my host today Lt. Bright take me to Main Medical,” Darp instructed once they were alone outside of the First Aid
The birds flutter their wings and soar from tree to tree. A shallow pond gives life to the fish, turtles, and frogs within it. The woods beyond my house are my refuge. Everything is still and calm, bringing me a sense of peace and tranquility. In the summer, the woods are lush and plentiful. Vibrant colors catch my eyes in every direction. The scene is so glorious and soothing, that it overwhelms me. To me, even though the sunset is splendorous, watching the sunset makes me depressed because it means that the day is ending. Lily says in the book The Secret Life of Bees, “Sunset is the saddest light there is.” The smell of flowers and grass brings a fresh scent to my nose. Nothing in the world can compare to the aroma released by the delicate daffodils among the green floor.
David also takes their clinic to the village with North Vietnamese refugees. While taking care of the villagers, Andy gets shot through the back of the neck and falls. David performs tracheostomy but he accidentally cuts a vessel. Andy starts to choke on his blood, and
Looking down the hall to his surprise was General Armstrong and the Israeli General Rallah Fralish. She was a beautiful woman in her late forties and a formidable adversary. Whatever they were discussing it had become heated both of them flinging their arms up in wild gestures but careful not to raise their voices so as not to arouse attention. To Hunter, it almost appeared to be some kind of lovers spat. That was not in the realm of impossible both of them were single and with just a few years difference in age. Hunter felt there was more history there, though, Armstrong had been stationed in Israel sometime back. But had returned to attend Rallah’s sons funeral and had started spending more time there lately afterward. What a pair those two would make the indomitable spirit meets the immovable force. No about all the could agree on would probably be sex and then it would be a battle for who's on top. They paused in their emotional tirade as another a junior officer appeared out of the conference room he snapped to attention as both Armstrong and Rallah returned the statute. Hunter hadn’t been spotted yet so he disappeared back into the stairwell keeping the door cracked to watch and listen. As The junior officer approach his position Hunter closed the door to a sliver of an opening as the man past he noticed he was in a flight suit. The arm patch signifying what squadron he was in only had an Icon
These boys that had escaped are called 'Gladers', when they woke up, they heard people screaming. Crazy people outside, screaming, are called cranks and then Thomas and the boys ran straight to Teresa's room. Outside Teresa's room, dead bodies were hanging, they were the armed people that has rescued them. Thomas didn't care, he rushes to Teresa's room, Thomas was scared. The look on his face, his eyes, was terrified. Thomas didn't even wear his clothes properly, he looks like a pauper on a street that no one cares about. No one agrees to save Teresa too, except Thomas. Thomas is different, he has something that is totally different from other Gladers. He has his own ideas, he's
If you have ever been in one of the branches of services then you know that it will not be good news when people in uniform come to your house. Two people in uniform come to Justin’s house which is where most of the setting takes place (top row, middle picture). “Soldiers at the door could only mean one thing…..Kyle.” “What had happened to him? Had he been hurt (pg.9)”?
I simply nodded and took the stretcher into the operation room. Her condition was bad, really bad, but I knew that I had to do something. Outside I saw the girl, Melissa Jone, praying that her mother would be alright.
After about a month of agony and loneliness, the nurse finally decided she had had enough. She wasn’t gonna let this happen to anyone else. She didn’t want to see another family go through what she is. Some her family lived in Verona, so that’s where she decided to go. It was a hard move for her. She left her sickly mother and father and her nine siblings but she knew she had too. She thought it was her destiny.
Throughout history there has been a strong hold on women to adhere to the culture of domesticity. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this value system was engrained in the class system in the United States. According to Barbara Welter in her article The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860 this system of values defined a woman’s role in regards to the virtues of her actions within the family system. A woman was to be submissive, pure, and pious. She also had to fulfill her domestic duties to the family and community. The women of a community were the connections to faith and family. They had to uphold the standards of their religion and be steadfast in their faith. Having a pious presence in her family and community also built up a woman’s self-worth as she was an active member with the church. Her Christianity offered her praise and respect from her fellow citizens and her family. This social order is presented in Nathanial Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter written in 1850. Hester Prynne, the heroine of the novel could possibly be viewed as one of the very first feminist in literature. She defies the power of the Puritan society and from her rebellious actions; the reader can see an emerging feminist consciousness within Hester, which is then passed along to her daughter Pearl.
Knocking on the door, Dr. Kelley opened it, “Come in, my friend. It is a pleasure to see you,” he said.
Being raised in a convent, the Little Convent Girl knows almost nothing of the outside world. There is a very