An Analysis Of Curing AIDS By Campos

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n some countries people would do anything to receive any type of health care to keep themselves and their families alive and healthy, but most of them barely even have water to drink. Here in America we have healthcare right at our fingertips and sometimes take it for granted. A central issue that we as a whole see lacking is compassion and dignity throughout our health care. Rafael Campo and Tony Kushner seem to bring that more into focus between their writings. For example in the poem Curing AIDS by Campo just shows how self-centered and ignorant some people are. “A hypocrite across the room complains that it’s her right to walk away- to walk away is her right”. She is basically saying she wants them to just turn their back to healthcare. …show more content…

He was one who couldn’t even come to terms with the diagnosis he actually had. Instead he denied having AIDS and said he had liver cancer. Having AIDs was considered being the gay disease and if you had that then you must be gay. He being a wealthy and somewhat important man could not go on to live in public with a status like that. Comparing to Campos poems “Towards Curing AIDs” there was a man who was denied care because of his disease or having no health insurance. Roy is like the line in the poem “what I would Give” about being hubris. Hubris to dictate to his doctor of what disease he has and how it will be treated and dealt with. He feared being vulnerable and rejected in societies eyes. I can see the emotions behind Campos’s poems and the anger and emotions amongst healthcare professionals and the patients he writes about. They show that maybe there is some sort of hope and compassion left in some people and that in Angels in America there is pain and denial as well as discrimination. “Homosexuals are men who know nobody and who nobody knows” ”who have zero clout”. (46) This is something Roy says and it just shows that no matter how important or wealthy you are Roy is not going to pick up the phone and tell the president he needs top treatment to cure his AIDS. He could never admit to

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