The Waiting Room : Disease

Susan introduces and explores the literal meaning of illness by citing evidence of the widespread treatments to cancer and tuberculosis patients. She argues in the chapter 1 that “cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene” (9). Susan organizes the discussion centering on the theme that illness divides people apart in the rest of the chapter. She uses the example of cardiac patients who are not so much avoided by relatives and friend because they consider cardiac is a mechanism failure, unlike cancer is caused by something obscene. She ascribes theses commonly found phenomenon to the effect of metaphors. “The metaphors attached to TB and to cancer imply living processes of a particularly resonant and horrid kind” (9). I like the second part of the essay where she explains the phenomenon by associating it with metaphor. It introduces the title of the book, Illness as Metaphor, and intrigue me to read further.

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.

One warm summer morning my sister, dad, and I were sitting and watching T.V. and my best friend’s dad called and invited us over for the weekend. He said

I walked outside the next morning feeling great. The bright vibrant sun shone on the freshly mowed grass. I loaded into my sister's car and we went off to school. The day passed extremely rapid,

What is in an illness? Is it just a physical ailment or abnormality? Well, in real life it may, but the presence of disease in literature seems to symbolize a lot more than what meets the eye. This is what Thomas C. Foster brings up in Chapter 24 of his work How to Read Literature like a Professor. Essentially, the chapter examines the importance of disease in literature from a symbolic standpoint.

The overall results are presented as a qualitative analysis and it allowed the researchers the opportunity to produce new inputs.

It was that time of the year ,which was back to school, it was the day ,I got to meet my 8th grade teacher ,I was sweating and had butterflies in my stomach. It was coincidence to find my friend Sheyla at the parking lot. Sheyla said she has met her teacher ,but needed a few more supplies ,so she was just back from getting her last supplies. Sheyla’s family went with us to met my teacher ,and I was glad to see her because it was quite a while since I last saw her. Later, after we left Berkmar grounds,I went to Sheyla’s house and we hangout the rest of the day. It was the first day of school, usually I would be feeling nervous,but today I wasn't ,which was good because I didn't want have sweating hands and a racing heartbeat. I arrived at Berkamr and went straight to homeroom ,I found my seat and waited. My first day at school wasn't to bad because the only thing

One brave doctor asked if he would look at my niece’s chart. He took a look and asked what she was still doing at that hospital. Without knowing it the hospital was giving her the wrong treatment and not enough trauma treatment. My niece was flown out of that hospital to what is now Banner University Hospital. A few hours later my niece had woken up and we could see that the treatment was already working (the iron lung) among other

Diseases are a kind of infection in the skin. Black plague had burns in the skin. It also messes with the immune system making someone very, very sick or ill. But one third of Europeans say it was a bacterial infection.

We were in the car on our way to the Baseball game. It was pretty hot outside, 90 degrees or so. We were going 60 miles an hour down I-55. Dad and I hadn’t really talked until Litchfield, but when traffic completely stopped, we had nothing to do but talk. “So what did you do this week?”Dad asked. Of course it was the summer, so I hadn’t done anything in the past week, so I just

Diseases ran threw like a skater on the ice, the conditions are best described as “Harrowing”. This is ironic, due to Life warning about illnesses, and himself ebbing away from it himself. You may often wonder why people warn you about conditions or

Sunny and humid is the start of every day, hearing my mother yell “get up” over and over till feet touch the floor. Slowly moving around the house bumping into one parent after the other answering questions of how the day is going to be and what is on the mental calendar to get done. Grabbing my clothes out the dryer thanking my mother for ironing the perfectly smooth shirt. Walking around the house every morning grateful for what I had been given and knowing that my parents are one of a kind. Running out the door with school bags and football gear so I can arrive to school 20 minutes early, I quickly gave my parents hugs and drove off to school. Arriving at school seeing my best friends asking how they are and wondering about how they perceived the homework given. Those friends have had my back for years and I theirs like on one of the hottest days of the year the football team has an intense practice and I didn’t think I could keep going. We had done sprints across the field before practice then when the time came for sprints after

When I think of disease, I think of plague. The role of disease throughout history has played a vital in the lives of people of every decent. Meaning diseases were very detrimental to the society because they were dropping population rates by drastic numbers. Disease definition states a disorder of structure in a human. The Black Death in particular was one of the world's worst pandemics. There was an estimate 75 to 200 million deaths within Asia and Europe combined. the disease was caused by bacterium Yersinia pestis that attaches to wild rodents Eventually, the people of Asia and Eurpope came in contact with the rodents, and that's how to Black Death spread.

Before I was reading this chapter I wasn’t know differences between disease and illness. According to Helment, many of author discussed analytic distinct between dieses and illness. One of the author, Cassel, describes illness as people’s feeling when they go the doctor; and dieses feelings the way home from the doctor. Dieses what organ has, and illness something a person has. Everybody’s thoughts and responds are different about illness and disease. I was always thinking disease is uncured sickness, such as AIDS. According to article diseases and illness are not related. You can get a dieses without being ill such as contacting HIV through another person when you perfectly healthy. The shaping of the illness and behaviors of the people depends

Every movement the seadweller made, every single one of his actions were being monitored by Gamzee as if he were a sadistic predator staring upon prey that knew it had been caught; but was still trying to provide resistance to something inevitable. His lip curled back to reveal a row of sharper than sharp fangs, the juggalo growling out a purr under his heavy breaths as he watched Eridan squirm beneath him and unintentionally back himself further up against the wall. Now that only motivated the clown to keep doing what he was doing. The fact that Eridan wouldn't be able to tell anyone about his little escapade with Gamzee without getting a culling fork jabbed against his throat was obviously one that the subjugglator was well aware of. Besides,