Diphtheria's Short Story 'Use If Force'

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Imagine trying to help someone who does not want to be helped, and there life could be endangered. Would it be ok to use force to help them? Well that is exactly what “The Use if Force” goes over, and it brings one major question. Is the use of force in certain circumstances a good thing if it could mean helping someone? Reading the story from the doctor’s point of view. It seems that the doctor had to use force to help the child. Some would say that the doctor went to far, but I feel that it was necessary to help the girl. It also may have been the case that the family could not afford much, and wanted to make sure she was sick before seeking further help. These are some of the things brought up in the story, and could help explain why the doctor had to use force for the girls well being.
I think that that it was necessary for the doctor to use force. Diphtheria was going around her school, the doctor has been seeing alot of it. One of the symptoms of diphtheria is a thin membrane in the back of the throat. So he wanted to make sure she did not have it, but she did not want him to check here throat. In this case he wanted to make sure so force may have been necessary to help the girl. So he could be sure she did not have this illness. Diphtheria was very …show more content…

In the short story her dad helps the doctor check her throat. This helps show that even the father in the story believes that this must be done. The doctor did ask tell the parents that if they do not want him to inspect the throat he will not insist, but it will require her to go to the hospital. This ties into that they already paid to have the doctor there, and they would like to make sure she was sick before they spend the money at the hospital. Since the story was during the great depression the family may have been poor, and could not afford much. So they wanted the doctor to help, and make sure what she had. So they could help here by getting the right medicine and seek further

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