Disabilities Essay In the excerpts of “Christopher Reeve’s Decision” and “The House on Mango Street”, Cisneros and Reeve represent disabilities through the uses of internal conflict and anaphora that announce that how one deals with a disability, affects how they turn out in the end. In the autobiography, Christopher Reeve uses internal conflict and anaphora to represent disability. When Dr.Jane, Reeve’s doctor, told him that he could never breathe on his own again, he “thought why not die...and save everyone a lot of trouble?”(1) which is severely depressing to the already depressing event taken place. This shows internal conflict because Reeve is giving up on ever surviving or pursuing his own dreams ever again. Since he is practically
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In the excerpt “Born Bad”, Esperanza, the dynamic character, is talking about her disabled aunt, Guadalupe, and the internal conflict is within her aunt. When Esperanza is talking about her aunt, Esperanza says that “she had been dying for a long time, [they] forgot. Maybe she was embarrassed [that] it took so long”(61) meaning that they never really did anything to change or improve their aunt's condition. This shows internal conflict because Guadalupe thinks that she can’t do anything about her disability and accepts it to be apart of her that just isn’t good anymore. After all those years that her aunt lived with her disability, unlike Christopher Reeve, Guadalupe just decided that the only thing that could be done was live with her disability. Since this is what Guadalupe thought, this is how she ended up as and that is just a brain inside of a cage of bones and flesh, unable to function by itself cause of disabilities. In addition to this sad way of living, Esperanza also talks about how her aunt was a strong swimmer and how it was “Hard to imagine her legs once strong, the bones hard and parting water,cleaning sharp strokes, not bend and wrinkled like a baby”(59) because Esperanza only remembers her aunt as weak and scrawny and a burden. The mentions of water and her aunt’s health are actually talked about throughout the whole excerpt which show anaphora. This anaphora proves how Guadalupe ended because before the accident, Guadalupe was strong and mighty and having no disability was the best days of her life. However, right after the accident Guadalupe lost all hope in trying to recover which is proven in Esperanza’s statement of hardly imagining her aunt doing anything. When someone loses hope in trying to get better, then they never do get better and since Guadalupe lost hope and didn’t try, she died. One’s thinking can either help them
In the excerpt “Born Bad”, Esperanza, the dynamic character, is talking about her disabled aunt, Guadalupe, and the internal conflict is within her aunt. When Esperanza is talking about her aunt, Esperanza says that “she had been dying for a long time, [they] forgot. Maybe she was embarrassed [that] it took so long”(61) meaning that they never really did anything to change or improve their aunt's condition. This shows internal conflict because Guadalupe thinks that she can’t do anything about her disability and accepts it to be apart of her that just isn’t good anymore. After all those years that her aunt lived with her disability, unlike Christopher Reeve, Guadalupe just decided that the only thing that could be done was live with her disability. Since this is what Guadalupe thought, this is how she ended up as and that is just a brain inside of a cage of bones and flesh, unable to function by itself cause of disabilities. In addition to this sad way of living, Esperanza also talks about how her aunt was a strong swimmer and how it was “Hard to imagine her legs once strong, the bones hard and parting water,cleaning sharp strokes, not bend and wrinkled like a baby”(59) because Esperanza only remembers her aunt as weak and scrawny and a burden. The mentions of water and her aunt’s health are actually talked about throughout the whole excerpt which show anaphora. This anaphora proves how Guadalupe ended because before the accident, Guadalupe was strong and mighty and having no disability was the best days of her life. However, right after the accident Guadalupe lost all hope in trying to recover which is proven in Esperanza’s statement of hardly imagining her aunt doing anything. When someone loses hope in trying to get better, then they never do get better and since Guadalupe lost hope and didn’t try, she died. One’s thinking can either help them