Brain On Fire Analysis
The claim of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by author Susannah Cahalan is that even ruthless illnesses can be overcome. This is shown when a nurse asks her mother “Has she always been so slow?”(Ch 24 pg 120); when her therapist questions how she’s feeling, “‘I'll ask you again. How do you feel out of 100?’… ‘100,’… My mom finally agreed with my own assessment.” Susannah also used different structures to support her claim. In chapter 32 she uses problem/solution show us she tells us how the doctor who diagnosed her, with NMDA- receptor autoimmune encephalitis, found her a treatment that could save her life and many others (pg 162). In that same chapter she used cause and effect that since her doctor found her an oral treatment she could