The Importance Of Deaf And Love Is Never Silent

A year later at the end of Love is Never Silent, Janice had a retirement party at the factory where she worked since she was seventeen (Love is never silent). She invited all the staffs, friends and family members to come (Love is never silent). With a pastor’s translation, her stand in the middle among the people and had a speech using American Sign Language. The speech was a conclusion of her work journey in the factory. She informed everyone in the party that
“The word silent, for us, is never silent. Please understand we are listening always with our eyes.... Hearing and Deaf must learn together, live together, change together. I can tell you from the Deaf side. Even we can’t hear the rain falling, but we listen from our eyes. Hearing …show more content…
There were times that she felt using Sign Language in the public was a stigma. She wanted the society to become more aware the importance of Deaf and Hearing people to work together to improve the sociality as a whole. Sign language has been existing for a long time in American history until the 1950s (William. 2000). It has been a long time using Sign Language was prohibited from hearing people. Deaf people were used to learn how to read lips in school as “Normal” people (Signing, Alexander Graham Bell and the NAD 2007). Later, as the society became more aware about American Sign Language after 1950s, Signing in public became acceptable. During this social transformation, many Deaf people had already developed a distrust for the hearing people took some time to accept the Hearing people. Love is Never Silent shows how Margaret, as a CODA’s (Children of Deaf Adults), realized her self-identity from being shamed as a hearing child raised by Deaf parents to a stage that she should be proud of her bicultural identity. She was a part of both hearing and Deaf community. Meanwhile the Deaf parent also learned that not all hearing people discriminated against them as Deaf …show more content…
At the beginning of the movie, it emphasized how Deaf families struggled economically in the Great Depression era as other hearing family. In addition, Deaf people had difficulties express their feelings. When the Rehabilitation Act was not passed by the 1973 the (American). CODA was very important for deaf people that to a point that they bore much stress sign they could sing because they were the only tool between their deaf parents and the hearing community. With lack of translation services, no one was able to could inform deaf people’s need for the hearing people. Having interpreter not only enabled the Deaf people to enhance interaction with the hearing people, it also allowed CODA from bearing those pressures when they should just go to school developing social life with their