Compare And Contrast Essay Topic Is Cancer

“Health & Medicine” Vs “Topic is Cancer” I have selected two articles for my compare and contrast analysis; one is “Health & Medicine” which describes the rising medical challenges and controversies; second is “Topic is Cancer” by Christopher Hitchens, which describes the physical and mental situation of a dying cancer patient. I will break down each article to how they differ from each other to how that compare to each other in several ways. The first article “ Health & Medicine” presents a hyperopic picture of the issue at hand. It gives a bird eye view to the issue at large with a lot of under-discussed points whereas the second article presents a myopic picture uncovering the deep feelings emerging in the mind of a cancer patient. It
In “Health & Medicine” there is just enough vividness in the writing to create a visual impact whereas in “Topic is Cancer” the writer uses a lot of concrete words, which presents a virtual image in the readers’ mind. Hitchens narrative approach of storytelling creates a visual scene, which keeps the reader mesmerized in the article. Even though the topic is about death and agony, which may lead into a deep whirlpool of negativity and despair, Hitchens has successfully kept the car on track. As an example we can consider the point where Hitchens is getting out of hotel room and is brought to a hospital. If Hitchens wanted to he could have simply said that he left from the hotel room and was taken to the hospital. But he took it as a responsibility to create visual impact through his narration and concrete words. He describes the outlook of the staff that came to take him to the hospital. Hitchens describes about their boots, their helmets and their heavy equipment. It creates an image of the emergency service staff. While in the first article there is hardly any visualization, but in all both of these article can be compared to each other because they still show visualization in one way or another, even though one article give the reader a stronger view to the
It just gives an opinion with no logical arguments supporting that opinion whereas in second article each point is explained and logically described. Hitchens explains the reason of every though emerging in the mind of a cancer patient and links physical situation, which rose because of the chemotherapy, with his mental struggle of trying to cope up with that situation. In first article it is described that in America Health care facilities are not available to everyone in the society, which is true in my opinion as well, but there is no empirical evidence to support this subjective opinion. Although the second article is also subjective in nature but still there is a logical linkage between every point. Nevertheless it is hard to logically explain the thoughts of a dying patient because nothing is clear for him. Even then Hitchens has been able to successfully satisfy the reader’s