Jojo Moyes Me Before You

Will learns about death early on through dealing with the recent passing of his grandmother, encountering a life or death situation, and dealing with the passing of his grandfather. He learns about love and sexuality through developing feelings for a mill worker and trying to figure out how to explain his love for the mill worker, Lightfoot. Will learns about accepting others and diversity through his grandfather’s remarriage. The experiences that Will goes through in this novel teachers to not judge anyone based on what we hear, what we see, their social class, or where they come from. We must be open-minded people, embrace others from different backgrounds, and not care what others might have to say about

The thesis of this narrative is that the narrator had been explaining how fortunate she had been to be able to work full time despite being partially disabled, and is trying to bring false hopes for herself so she wouldn’t be discouraged for who she really is.

At the end Will’s Dad, and Ling came out alive with blood all over and they were hurt. Will ended up learning a lot about his Dad and knowing that he could have lost his Dad, and that Ting and him survived is a really significant moment for him, and a significant moment in the novel. In the end Will learns that life is precious and that you need to appreciate everything you have because in a blink of an eye it could all

For instance, both Flowers for Algernon and Awakenings include themes towards the treatment and respect of those living with mental and physical disabilities. In Flowers for Algernon, Charlie was unknowingly used as a punchline by his supposed friends and colleagues at the bakery, merely because he was mentally challenged and the incompetence that resulted from this made others feel superior to him. Following the surgery and the increase of Charlie’s intelligence, the doctors insinuated that he wasn’t considered a human being prior to the experiment. They implied that those with impaired mental abilities are not individuals capable of independent thought and feeling, which is disproved through Charlie’s progress reports. Similarly, Awakenings sheds light on the treatment of those who have physical challenges, in the manner that the nurses and doctors treated the patients before the medicine was administered. They are visibly reluctant to tend to the patients, and attempt to avoid work with television shows because they lack compassion and understanding towards their conditions. The staff thought efforts to help them were futile due to their catatonic states, therefore neglecting them, treating them like obligations rather than individuals. However, both stories show that in spite of their circumstances, those with disabilities are not lesser people and are deserving of compassion and respect just as others are; though they are often ill-treated and misunderstood.

People with disabilities are not completely gone. They are still there and have a mind of their own. They feel emotions and sometimes have a more complex mind than others. Two authors help enlighten this idea that disabled people are much more than helpless bodies. Both Christy Brown and Jean-Dominique Bauby perfectly illustrate their lives and what it is like to be disabled, and they prove by their stories that they think and feel, and can even develop enough to share what they feel with the world. My Left Foot is about the journey of a boy suffering from cerebral palsy. His entire life he was labeled as a loss cause by doctor after doctor, but his mom never gave up hope. Slowly, he started showing signs of development by random movements responding to certain situations. In the end he ends up being able to communicate with his left foot. The next story, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, is about an individual who suffered a stroke at the age of 43, leaving him paralyzed, only able to blink his left eye as communication. He develops his own alphabet inspired by the French language in order to exchange conversations with others. His thoughts in the story jump from the present, him currently disabled, and the past, when he was not. Both memoirs, with very different stories, show the lives of two individuals that are not like others. One who had their disability since birth, and the other who obtained one after a tragic event. In My Left Foot by Christy Brown and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby, both authors use characterization to show readers the struggles of disabled people and help them understand that just because they can’t use motions such as hand gestures to express how they feel, doesn’t mean that they don’t think and feel.

Being different can be very hard for some people. In the story finding her way it talks about how Angela has to deal with being different and being at a new school. In the story Linda sue Park it talked about how she was disabled to a wheelchair but overcame it. Both of these stories have a character who was having problems and demonstrated how they overcame them or coped with them.

Stubbornness is one of very few negative characteristics of Lou’s. By walking away from the game, he could have potentially saved himself more time on this earth. The text said, “He died as he had lived”(Graham,250). This quote describes Lou’s life in many ways. In this case it goes to show that there were consequences to his actions of continuing play. He lived by not cutting his career shorter, but with that he cut his life short.

He has experienced the world and takes care of himself despite his blindness. The protagonist is astonished by Robert’s ability to maintain a life; he finds himself confounded by the smallest things, like the fact that Robert has two TVs, keeps a beard, and prefers one side of the train over the other. The narrator even displays mild disgust at the fact that Robert’s deceased wife is named Beulah, “a name for a colored woman,” proving that his prejudice goes beyond disabilities (Carver 36). Based on the evidence, it is clear that the narrator likes what he knows and is reluctant to try new things, especially when it comes to

The narrator does not find joy in learning, does not have close friendships, and superficially judges the world. According to his wife, he has no friends. “Every night I smoked dope and stayed up as long as I could before I fell asleep”. He has a monotonous life. He is also afraid of the blind man and does not know how to interact with him. The blind man’s eyes creep him out. “I’d always thought dark glasses were a must for the blind. Fact was, I wished he had a pair”. He judges the man based on his look instead of his personality. Even before he met the man, he fixated on the blindness. He also feels pity for

Disabilities within the characters of “The Life You Save May be Your Own” by Flanner O’Connor

While the narrator’s wife was waiting for Robert in the train station, the narrator was thinking about the miserable life of a blind person. The narrator was thinking about Robert and the relationship he had with her wife. He was thinking how Robert’s wife couldn’t feel what it was to be admired. For example, the narrator states, “Imagine a woman who could never see herself as she was seen in the eyes of her loved one” (276). Indeed, although the narrator felt bad about the condition of the blind man, he felt worst about how was the life of a person who lived close to a blind man.

Hope is given a court ordered list of things to do in order to get custody of his daughter back. Hope must get a place to live, get a job and remain sober from alcohol and drugs. When Hope goes to visit Leila she wants nothing to do with him which breaks Hope’s heart but also gives him more motivation to get back on track. Hope’s ultimate plan is to get back to training and back to boxing so he can make money to support himself and his daughter. Hope gets a job at a new gym that is owned by a boxer, Titus “Tick” Wils. Hope is contacted by his old manager who has now become his rival, Escobar’s new manager, to compete in a fight between the two. Hope knows he can not participate in the match without being trained. He tries many times to convince Tick to train him but Tick wants no part of it. After one of Tick’s students is killed by his abusive father and he hears about the fight between Hope and Escobar that might take place, Tick offers to train Hope. Hope continues to visit his daughter but many visits end with Leila not even wanting to see her father. She claims that her father is the reason they are in this predicament. After many visits, Leila forgives her father just in time for his big fight against

These views change possibly because a disabled person, whether a friend or family member, may be acquainted with them. Treating another equally removes these preconcieved beliefs. In the story, the audience enters the narrator's mind and sees the narrator's bias; furthermore, the narrator explains that he has "never met, or personally known, anyone who was blind" (5). The mind is powerful enough to convince people that they are seeing reality; however, empathizing with the disabled, whether through drawing a picture or conversing, reveals the flaws in people's

Will, while his life is short, it was full of amazing memories and experiences - the kind that really enrich and define a person. Lou asks him about his life before the wheelchair and Will replies, "I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, if you’re stuck in one of these, all you have are the places and your memory that you can go to.” Through Will’s view on his life previous before his accident, Moyes showed me how in society we are so focused on living one day to another -making money, paying bills- that we don’t place enough importance on what really matters in life - creating memories that last far longer than anything else. Through Will’s attitude I began to realise that I need to place more importance of making the most of my life while I am able.

The film takes a turn when Lou overhears Will’s parents talking about Will wanting to end his life, that his six months of trying are almost over. Lou discovers that she was hired to change his mind about ending his life. Lou leaves abruptly and talks with her sister, Katrina, who tells her to make his time left on Earth filled with happy memories. This inspires Lou to research activities and support systems for Will in a final attempt to change his mind about the physician-assisted suicide. Although the activities are selected with the best intentions, several problems arise which spoil the whole day for Will (e.g. the wheels of Will’s wheelchair becoming stuck in the deep mud at the horse track).