Suddenly, Tanya woke to the screaming cries of a baby coming down the hall of Saint John’s Hospital, and unsurprisingly the cries of the newborn baby girl made her way into her room. The baby girl went silent as soon as Tanya put a bottle in her mouth. With curiosity her large eyes stayed open to the world in desperate need to see everything around her. She wanted to explore. The next day when the family left the hospital the nurse looked Tanya in the eye and stated “good luck with that one. That is a feisty one,” and from that day forward the young girl did not change. In the short story “The Evening and the Morning and the Night” by Octavia E. Butler and the article “Do Genes Determine Your Entire Life?” by Julian Baggini the author writes
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The well known author, Butler, wrote DGD based on three real life diseases Huntington’s disease, phenylketonuria, and Lesch- Nyhan disease, but instead of focusing on how the disease physically impacts Lynn she writes about how the knowledge of the impacts of the disease impacts her. After a visit to a ward where the poor and dangerous DGDs lived impacts the narrator she states “I won’t describe the ward. It’s enough to say that when they brought me home, I cut my wrists” (page 1). Mental stability and emotional responses depend on the chemical balance in one’s brain which is often are influenced by genetic makeup and dopamine levels, different people have different reactions to certain situations. Because of the chemicals in Lynn’s brain the ward holds a large negative impact on her mental state and development. Other’s may have a different reaction to what Lynn was exposed to as a child. At the end of the short story “The Evening and the Morning and the Night” Lynn and Alan receive information on a pheromone double DGD women hold that control the patients. When going to meet Alan’s mother, they arrive in a very peaceful ward where DGD patients that work on artistic and intellectual projects.
The well known author, Butler, wrote DGD based on three real life diseases Huntington’s disease, phenylketonuria, and Lesch- Nyhan disease, but instead of focusing on how the disease physically impacts Lynn she writes about how the knowledge of the impacts of the disease impacts her. After a visit to a ward where the poor and dangerous DGDs lived impacts the narrator she states “I won’t describe the ward. It’s enough to say that when they brought me home, I cut my wrists” (page 1). Mental stability and emotional responses depend on the chemical balance in one’s brain which is often are influenced by genetic makeup and dopamine levels, different people have different reactions to certain situations. Because of the chemicals in Lynn’s brain the ward holds a large negative impact on her mental state and development. Other’s may have a different reaction to what Lynn was exposed to as a child. At the end of the short story “The Evening and the Morning and the Night” Lynn and Alan receive information on a pheromone double DGD women hold that control the patients. When going to meet Alan’s mother, they arrive in a very peaceful ward where DGD patients that work on artistic and intellectual projects.