BLOG POST 2.1
“…if I had been a little less stubborn, a little more awed by authority, a little less economically privileged, a little more charmed by tranquilizers, a little less able to research my own disease, or simply unlucky, I’d be dead now.
And you would not be reading this.” (Robson, 244)
I found this transition to be extremely effective for two reasons: Firstly, the way this sentence is read is as if said in one breath. As a reader I almost felt overwhelmed by the lengthy sentence and felt that it mirrored the author’s sentiments as someone going through such a trial. Secondly, I felt this sentence played in to the cause and effect. She sums up how certain aspects of her own personality, seemingly unrelated to cancer as a disease in itself is responsible for her recovery. What she says is true, if she did not have these attributes she would not have survived. These attributes were her saving grace, after all, even those whose jobs it was to save her- could not had it not been for her taking initiative. I felt that both the style of the sentence coupled with the content demonstrated her story of survival succinctly and powerfully.
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