Christopher Hitchen's Essay 'Unspoken Truths'

Francisco Velasquez
February 3, 2015
English 100
Professor Ash
Words of Communication There are certain reasons why we as humans are seen as being a higher species. That’s due to the fact we have evolved to communicate and create relationships between one another in this way. As humans we tend to take many things we use on a daily basis for granted. In Christopher Hitchens essay titled the “Unspoken Truths” he conveys his experience of dealing with esophageal cancer or throat cancer in simpler terms, to his audience. He enjoyed speaking because he was good at what he did. He was a debater, an author and a journalist who contributed to. After he developed esophageal cancer, he relied on pain medication such as morphine, and adrenaline to
I find it’s best not to listen to this late at night. Leonard Cohen is unimaginable without, and indissoluble from, his voice. (I now doubt that I could be bothered, or bear, to hear that song done by anybody else.)” People would send gifts when he was sick but turned it in inspiration when he took writing classes, if something is worth hearing or listening to, it’s very probably worth reading and to finish it Find your own voice.
He says he found it rewarding when a reader would feel “personally addressed”. would be deprived of a whole continent of human sympathy,
Hitchens brings up several points that caused me to reflect more deeply on what he was saying or how it relates to life in general’s Hitchens stated in his essay “Like Health itself, the loss of such a thing can’t be imagined until it occurs.”(Hitchens 88). You don’t know what you have until it is gone because there are people out there that take for granted what they already
He owes Simmons Hoggart, an editor for the news publishing company, the guardian. An article he wrote was dull and was told to write the way you talk. How many of us can say we talk the same as we write? I think some things just sound better in my head then it does on paper, but Hitchens is asking can we really talk if we cant even write. The same way we have attitude in real life we also have a tone when it comes to writing. While writing a certain way the reader could be taking that the wrong way, which is why we need to put a voice in what we are trying to write.
In the passage, he involves medicals terms such as cord and the musical synonym chord each with their unique meaning to the author. The medical term cord he refers to being able to fold, sort of like an extension cord being folded up. On the other term he is mentioning is chord, to stir memories, produce music, to love, bring to tears when putting your thoughts in every note, Telling jokes is something I do to have fun with someone. Poetry is producing what you feel inside and organize in a way that can be communicated through