Additionally, returning to the irony of how Julie fits Aunt Bea’s conceptualized haunted figure, however her disability has damaged her chances of having the abled-bodied individual aid her. The first reason this distances Julie’s form connecting to the able-bodied individual is because of her cognitive disability, which makes her incapable of coherently expressing her mental thoughts. Arguably, the societal benefit system is meant to reach and understand individuals like Julie, however it does not, and this further demonstrates society’s failure to properly aid the vulnerable. Problematically, because Julie is recognized as the vulnerable, she causes primal rejection in the able-bodied, and this then causes the able-bodied to minimalized their
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Burghurdt argues this occurs, because there is a general agreement in society that the concept of being disabled is determined upon the otherness in the appearances, or behaviors of the individual (557). Arguably, the normative ways of recognizing the vulnerable is the able-bodied society’s way of creating a barrier against what contradicts their ideal body. Additionally, this barrier of ignorance causes the able-bodied to disregard the significances of Julies utterances, or actions throughout the story. However, the story makes Julie’s vulnerability clear to the reader by focusing on her internal thoughts as she “remembers there is a bad man […] he’s the same man who punched Julie’s mother and drowned the cat in the toilet.” (Gowdy 30). Julie is personally dwelling of her memories, rather expressing it. This form of evidence that is given about Julie demonstrates how vulnerable individuals like her are trapped in their own world, because her cognitive disability keeps her from properly expressing her feelings. However, whenever Julie attempts to express her mental thoughts, it is often fragmented and disregarded as …show more content…
Additionally, the lack of communication plays on the fact that Julie is eleven years old (11), and she would be limited to expressing her thoughts even if she were not cognitively disabled. In effect, Gowdy’s story can be used to further argue how there is a form of elitism to who is given proper attention within society, rather equally ensuring everyone is properly cared for. This is demonstrated as Terry gets to remain in society, whereas Julie is disposed to a group home for the mentally unfit (34). The supposed justification for Julie’s displacement is because she physically harmed herself with a power drill, however this occurred because she was left unintended with dangerous equipment laying around (33). Consequently, the social benefit system that is meant to ensure Julie’s safety has failed her, yet she is the one who is faces the consequences. Whereas Terry’s visual disability is corrected, and she is given the opportunity to undergo plastic surgery to remove her purple birthmark. Terry is slowly ascending from the social stigmas that is the otherness of her
Burghurdt argues this occurs, because there is a general agreement in society that the concept of being disabled is determined upon the otherness in the appearances, or behaviors of the individual (557). Arguably, the normative ways of recognizing the vulnerable is the able-bodied society’s way of creating a barrier against what contradicts their ideal body. Additionally, this barrier of ignorance causes the able-bodied to disregard the significances of Julies utterances, or actions throughout the story. However, the story makes Julie’s vulnerability clear to the reader by focusing on her internal thoughts as she “remembers there is a bad man […] he’s the same man who punched Julie’s mother and drowned the cat in the toilet.” (Gowdy 30). Julie is personally dwelling of her memories, rather expressing it. This form of evidence that is given about Julie demonstrates how vulnerable individuals like her are trapped in their own world, because her cognitive disability keeps her from properly expressing her feelings. However, whenever Julie attempts to express her mental thoughts, it is often fragmented and disregarded as …show more content…
Additionally, the lack of communication plays on the fact that Julie is eleven years old (11), and she would be limited to expressing her thoughts even if she were not cognitively disabled. In effect, Gowdy’s story can be used to further argue how there is a form of elitism to who is given proper attention within society, rather equally ensuring everyone is properly cared for. This is demonstrated as Terry gets to remain in society, whereas Julie is disposed to a group home for the mentally unfit (34). The supposed justification for Julie’s displacement is because she physically harmed herself with a power drill, however this occurred because she was left unintended with dangerous equipment laying around (33). Consequently, the social benefit system that is meant to ensure Julie’s safety has failed her, yet she is the one who is faces the consequences. Whereas Terry’s visual disability is corrected, and she is given the opportunity to undergo plastic surgery to remove her purple birthmark. Terry is slowly ascending from the social stigmas that is the otherness of her