Use of Metaphor on Cancer.......

"I'm going to kill you. Every day, I'm going to kill you, and then I'm going to bring you back to life. We're going to hit you with chemo, and hit you again, and hit you again. You're not going to be able to walk. We're practically going to have to teach you to walk again after we're done"(Anonymous Oncologist). 

If I was the patient that had cancer and my doctor would tell
 
me this I would be terrified because the doctor is telling the

patient in an aggressive tone. However, the doctor is telling



you the truth about chemo that it is killing you little by little.

 At same time you would be fighting against the cancer. 




This quote reminds me when my aunt had been diagnosed

with back bone breast cancer and being three months


 pregnant. Her doctor had told her you have the early stage of

 breast cancer so, we going to fight this and you will survival.

 I promise you that I will not give up on you and you will not


give up either. Since, you are three months pregnant it’s

going to be dangerous because you would be in chemo. Your

baby might make but it might Down syndrome from the

medicine you would be taking. However, that would also be a


struggle for you to fight this cancer.  Look your young and

you will be able to have more children once we defeat this


cancer first. So, my aunt had to make the hardest decision in
 
her life and lose the baby but she had done it so she can fight

 the cancer. Overall, with the strong relationship she had with

 her doctor, she survived the cancer and a year lateral she had

 a baby girl. My aunt’s doctor wasn’t as aggressive as the one

from the quote. He was like gentler but at the time

determined and motivated that his goal was to not let my

aunt die. Different doctors have different strategies of how to

 inform their patient about their cancer and how they would

approach. Depending on the patient of which way they will

prefer to fight against their cancer. 

Stitches.....The End

I like this picture because after everything Small had went through his childhood with his family. He had decided in last dream that he was not going to accept the same pathway as his grandmother, mother took. He was able to analysis through his pain that he was able to find happiness in his art. He found that happiness that his mother was not able to because of she was not able to come out to the world that she was lesbian. And how her grandmother was never accept by the family of her true love. They had lived with misery for the rest of their life. Small did not had to live with the misery because he had accept to let go of the pain and accept how dysfunction of family they were. He would on keep moving on with his life. 

Stitches........ Trying to accept reality

David Small was able to make sense of his life thank to the Rabbit. Small was confused and denial about what was going on his  dysfunctional family. When the Rabbit was trying to make Small to talk to him, he did not wanted to talk about nothing. So he had to tell him the cold way about how his parents did not tell him about his cancer and he had to find out on his own by a letter that his mother wrote to his grandma. Also, that he had been living in a live full of nonsense. Small had felt that his mother did cared about him because she never show a gesture of love to him. But the Rabbit confirmed and told him yes it true that your mother doesn't love you. I believe that truth that he need to start getting his life together and being open to talk to the Rabbit. Ever since that first talk they had he was able to communicate with Rabbit about any fears or doubts he had. The Rabbit gave back the freedom and strength that Small needed and was looking for. 

Stitches......a Memoir

Stitches written by David Small it’s a memoir and tragedy story. What I like about this book that it’s a different book that I’m not used to reading. I’m not really a fan of reading comic books. However, after I started reading this novel I was hooked. The novel kept me wanting to finish the whole novel in one day because I wanted to know how it was going to end. But I did have some frustration with some of the characters from the novel. For instance, the parents because they did not really pay attention to their children like they should of have The pictures give you a better picture of they look and how they would react with each other. I even feel bad for the kid to have such an unloving family.  

The Mystery of Pain

The Mystery of Pain

“Pain has an element of blank;

It cannot recollect”( Emily Dickinson)

These two lines from the first verse of the poem “Mystery of Pain”, is powerful.  The lines are interpreting that this “blank” property belong to pain and pain cannot felt twice.

“It has no future but itself,

Its infinite realms contain,

Its past, enlightened to perceive,

New Periods of pain”. ( Emily Dickinson)

The second verse of the poem and it tells you that pain its infinite because we would have different pain for different suffering. However, no pain last forever so that’s why it has no way growing more of the pain it already it is. Dickinson it’s talking about of the past pain that remembers the pain and how the future looks pain that’s either suffering physical or emotional.