Sound And Fury Summary

The documentary Sound and Fury, focuses on the Artinian family and their decision on if their children should have a cochlear implant or stay deaf, remaining in the deaf community. The main conflict is determining if they are making the right decision for their child. Sound and Fury revolves around two families who have deaf children. One family, who is hearing, has a deaf infant. While the other child, Heather a four and a half year old, is from a deaf family. The issue here, is Heather wished for a cochlear implant. She had the desire to be able to hear her friends, birds chirping, alarms, horns beeping. However, her family did not grant Heather her wish, they decided that she should carry on being deaf. They have the belief that the cochlear implant would ruin her deaf identity, and would be missing out on deaf life. In addition, they were worried she would not fit in with the deaf world or the hearing world. The infant’s family went the other route, and did decide to give their son the …show more content…
The child may be slower in learning language compared to their peers. Regarding Heather, she will need a speech pathologist to learn how to communicate with her hearing friends, understand spoken words. continue developing at her academic level, and to have an advocate for getting a cochlear implant. According to an article written by Georgetown University, years after Sound and Fury was made. Heather received a cochlear implant. She describes the hardships she faced learning to hear and speak. “I was very diligent about going to speech therapy and trying hard,” she says. “It took me three years before I could be understandable and understand others.” Though it was a long road for Heather, the speech pathologist had a crucial part in her being able to speak, her, and understand hearing