The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Angelina
Professor Oren
English 1A
In this non-fiction story, the main person’s name was never mentioned. I believe the author had an exact purpose or doing this. Without the author telling us the main characters name, it allows the reader to be more imaginative and we start to use the context clues to figure weather or not this person is male or female. After reading this story, there seems to be a deeper message than the sentences we’re reading word for word. We start to understand the struggle this person is going through on a daily basis. Something as dramatic as being paralyzed in a hospital for six months is something is something a strong healthy person would never even imagine happening to them. They have accepted what has happened and became accustomed to this new, isolated, solitary lifestyle.
“You can visit the woman you love, slide down beside her and stroke her still-sleeping face.” After reading this line, I can assume that the main person in this story is most likely a male. The person is imagining themselves doing all these wonderful things, things he couldn’t even do if he wasn’t paralyzed from head to toe. This person has been isolated for six months, so it is easy to assume that this person might be going a little crazy, or at least overly imaginative without so much company, not getting any fresh air, not working, and not going to school. It is easy to see the struggles this person is going through day by day.
This person most likely had an exciting life before this tragic accident. He had children, friends, maybe even a wife. The Paris-Roubaix bike race was mentioned so I can assume he lived in Paris, or at least somewhere around the area. It is not hard to picture this person having a pretty decent life up until they suffered from a “massive stroke” This person had to learn about how the brain stem is an essential component of our internal computer the hard way. Some people can’t even begin to understand what this means or the pain
Professor Oren
English 1A
In this non-fiction story, the main person’s name was never mentioned. I believe the author had an exact purpose or doing this. Without the author telling us the main characters name, it allows the reader to be more imaginative and we start to use the context clues to figure weather or not this person is male or female. After reading this story, there seems to be a deeper message than the sentences we’re reading word for word. We start to understand the struggle this person is going through on a daily basis. Something as dramatic as being paralyzed in a hospital for six months is something is something a strong healthy person would never even imagine happening to them. They have accepted what has happened and became accustomed to this new, isolated, solitary lifestyle.
“You can visit the woman you love, slide down beside her and stroke her still-sleeping face.” After reading this line, I can assume that the main person in this story is most likely a male. The person is imagining themselves doing all these wonderful things, things he couldn’t even do if he wasn’t paralyzed from head to toe. This person has been isolated for six months, so it is easy to assume that this person might be going a little crazy, or at least overly imaginative without so much company, not getting any fresh air, not working, and not going to school. It is easy to see the struggles this person is going through day by day.
This person most likely had an exciting life before this tragic accident. He had children, friends, maybe even a wife. The Paris-Roubaix bike race was mentioned so I can assume he lived in Paris, or at least somewhere around the area. It is not hard to picture this person having a pretty decent life up until they suffered from a “massive stroke” This person had to learn about how the brain stem is an essential component of our internal computer the hard way. Some people can’t even begin to understand what this means or the pain