While listening to the story about her husband, there were a couple of things that I thought were very interesting. Those things were...
- was how he never had a bad illness in the past before the illness he had now
- he was one of those men who didn't go to the doctor as soon as they felt something wrong, and it wasn't entirely his fault because something was wrong with there insurance, so he couldn't go until 11 months had passed (how long it took to get insured).
- It wasn't one big long rush of pain and sickness, one time he might of felt bad and weak, and at another time, he could of felt really good, like she said he was well enough to go on the family vacation to play mini-golf, but then after, he asked for a oxygen tank.
- In the whole time he was sick, they never talked about death, and didn't even mention it.
- She had no less respect for death after he died.
I can connect some of these things to myself because for one thing, before my grandfather died, I would pray to god not to take him, and I would do this every night, then one day my mom got that phone call and my grandmother said, that's it, he is gone, at first, I didn't know what to feel, it felt like a big hole inside of me where all of my emotions would just pour out into I was a hollow shell of emptyness.
Willie,
ReplyDeleteI thought you listed some good insights from the guest speaker that you could have talked about further. I liked how in your first paragraph you connected with some of the things the speaker said when your grandfather died. However, the assignment was to write three paragraphs addressing the insights you got from the speaker and your own thoughts /connections regarding them. I definitely think you could have expanded on your thoughts and made further connections by writing more about your experiences with illness or death. You were off to a good start.
Willie,
ReplyDeleteI thnk you did a good job with connections. Connecting it to personal life is always a good way to help the reader understand what the author might be going through. Especially for someone that has never read this book. Maybe you could try like more connections. Like connections to you, or to the world or to another book you have read. Maybe put more of your opnion in there along with the facts. I liked how you gave facts so we can get a better interpretation of the book. You did a good job. Also maybe try some predictions on what you think this could lead to in life, and why this could be happeneing. Good job thought