Blog Post 2.1
”But I live with this terrible knowledge: that 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).
This paragraph break is very effective to my eyes because I think the transition in between two’s is cause and effect relation. She writes throughout the whole story about her being misdiagnosed with incurable cancer, and, consequently, mistreated by tranquilizer and chemotherapy. However, she knows what she wants: to live on like everyone else, like the Doctors at World famous cancer center.
She is still alive because she didn’t want to die; we still read her experience because she had faith on herself while the famous doctors hadn’t, and were unable to treat her with a little more empathy. Stubborn she was against the doctor’s decisions and the death. She challenged them she wasn’t going to lose this battle. To prove herself right, she only had faith backed by facts found in extensive research on incurable disease done by her and freedom in economy that enabled her to go out-of-network cancer center. Here I want to add one more vital reason that she explains in this text which is mind- body relation. This is kind of off tangent issue relating to what I was asked to write about, but still I want to correlate it with her ”keep-hopes-up” mentality that eventually leads her toward the survival after all these suffering and agony.
Moreover, the single lined paragraph explains the greatest truth of her life- she is still alive. It is the outcome of all the work she had done, all the tough time she had passed during the journey to her destiny. She highlights the unity of her every little steps, from personal characteristics to fortune, which helps her to make it alive. I think this is what that makes it work because causes cause effects.
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