“Final Exam” Character Analysis
In the book the “Final Exam” by Pauline W. Chen, she is presented as a round and dynamic character in the book. She is a round character because she is complex and multidimensional and she is also a dynamic character because she changes in an important way as the story progresses. Chen’s ways of thinking changes as she work her way to becoming a surgeon and faced with many moral and ethical challenges. She had to come up with her own answers to different questions that have no right answers. Throughout the story, her character was developed by many trials and errors to become a surgeon that she believed to be good. Through out the years as a medical student, intern, and resident to become a surgeon, Chen was faced with numerous internal conflicts. The first conflict she was faced with was the cadaver dissection because it seemed unethical to violate the body of the dead and to comfort her, “she shared her dissection fears with others who harbored the same uneasiness” (Chen, 2007, p. 5). Her fears of the cadaver dissection reflected on her dream when she had a nightmare. When she went to the hospital for clinical rotation, she faced death of patients. There she learned not every patient can be saved and it is not organized as the television shows illustrates. When Chen made the first death note with Bill, she …show more content…
The cadaver dissection became a tool to detach her emotionally from the idea of death and to make her prone to the impact of the death of a patient. This is needed because as a surgeon, she will work in an environment where death happens on everyday basis. The first death note was when she “reduced that great passing of life into an arbitrarily calculated moment in time” (Chen, 2007, p. 54) for the first time. This was a great change in her ideology because it was the start of viewing death as an
In the book the “Final Exam” by Pauline W. Chen, she is presented as a round and dynamic character in the book. She is a round character because she is complex and multidimensional and she is also a dynamic character because she changes in an important way as the story progresses. Chen’s ways of thinking changes as she work her way to becoming a surgeon and faced with many moral and ethical challenges. She had to come up with her own answers to different questions that have no right answers. Throughout the story, her character was developed by many trials and errors to become a surgeon that she believed to be good. Through out the years as a medical student, intern, and resident to become a surgeon, Chen was faced with numerous internal conflicts. The first conflict she was faced with was the cadaver dissection because it seemed unethical to violate the body of the dead and to comfort her, “she shared her dissection fears with others who harbored the same uneasiness” (Chen, 2007, p. 5). Her fears of the cadaver dissection reflected on her dream when she had a nightmare. When she went to the hospital for clinical rotation, she faced death of patients. There she learned not every patient can be saved and it is not organized as the television shows illustrates. When Chen made the first death note with Bill, she …show more content…
The cadaver dissection became a tool to detach her emotionally from the idea of death and to make her prone to the impact of the death of a patient. This is needed because as a surgeon, she will work in an environment where death happens on everyday basis. The first death note was when she “reduced that great passing of life into an arbitrarily calculated moment in time” (Chen, 2007, p. 54) for the first time. This was a great change in her ideology because it was the start of viewing death as an