How would it feel to meet someone that was mute? Well in the “Sound of Annie’s silence” the main character learns how to treat everyone fairly and ends up becoming Annie’s ( who is mute ) best friend. The narrator goes through certain changes that help her accept people. At the beginning of the book, the narrator just ignores Annie. At the middle of the book, the narrator is just really annoyed with Annie. In the end of the story, the narrator accepts Annie as a friend and the theme is revealed through the narrator. The author starts to reveal the theme by showing that the narrator isn’t accepting. In the text, it states that “Mrs. Walters led me to a girl sitting in the living room. I stood there, staring in shock.”. After this, Mrs. Walters explains that Annie was mute. From this piece of evidence the reader can infer that, the narrator expected to babysit a baby not a mute teenager. On the 1st page, the author stated ”I couldn’t believe it. I could study or watch TV-and get paid for it. The job would be a breeze.”. From this piece of evidence the reader can conclude that the narrator was just going to ignore Annie and do her job. That means that the author doesn't care about Annie and isn’t accepting. In conclusion, at this point in the story the reader can realize that the Narrator doesn’t really care or accept Annie. …show more content…
I the text, the author states “Every day I thought about quitting, but I did nothing about it.” From this piece of evidence the reader can infer that the Narrator was starting to get comfortable around Annie, but she still thought of quitting the job. In the text, the author states ” All the time, I kept talking to her. It made her silence easier to bear ”. From this piece of evidence the reader can conclude that the Narrator adapted to Annie’s silence since she accepts her. In conclusion, in the middle of the story, the narrator accepts Annie, but not her
The story takes place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where Mark was born. Both of his parents were deaf, but his grandparents were hearing. From birth until first grade, he had perfectly normal hearing so he developed language skills as any normal child would. Mark’s hearing loss was slow, and happened overtime without going noticed. When the reality of his hearing loss struck his family and teachers, questions about his education aroused. His parents and his grandparents were worried that teaching him sign language would draw him from learning spoken language, so it was decided that Mark would be raised as a normal hearing and speaking child.
I learned a lot about Deaf people, ASL, and/or Deaf Culture after reading this book. Deaf people are normal just like anybody else and they should not be treated any differently. Some people treat Deafness as a disease that needs to be cured, but it's not. If a parent comes to learn that their child is deaf they react very crazily and act like their child is dying and that deafness is some fatal disease. Deaf people should be treated just like anyone else and no differently. They are not disabled and can do great things in this world.
The main characters in the story with communication disabilities are Laura and her son Adam. Laura and Adam are both deaf. Both of them were born hearing, and then over time lost it. When someone is deaf, it means that the person can’t hear at all. One of the ways that deaf people communicate is by using American Sign Language, which is where a person uses gestures to communicate with others. Another part of deaf culture is that some speak, and some don’t because they either don’t know how or aren’t comfortable doing it
In the beginning, the author explains how this young girl, Lizabeth, lived in the culturally deprived neighborhood during the depression. Lizabeth is at the age where she is just beginning to become a young woman and is almost ready to give up her childish ways. Through this time period, she was confused and could not quite understand what was happening to her. In the end, she rips Miss Lottie’s marigolds among the ugly places in which she lived. The marigolds are the only things that make the place a bit beautiful to the eye.
In The Refusal and Transgression in Joyce Carol Oates Fiction Wesley states that daughter’s psychological growth towards autonomous individualization is stunted by the image created by the culture . We see Annie struggling to decide how she fits in and how she does not in her friendship with the Red Girl, who was not society’s image of a young girl. In several ways the Red Girl is the start to Annie’s resistance to gender roles. The Red Girl climbed trees, and didn’t bathe as regularly as Annie had to; she also played marbles. Annie was so intrigued by the Red Girl that she imitated her values; even after the Red Girl left, Annie never tried to become a lady; unlike Gwen, who fully accepted the roles that society placed on her. Near the end of the story when Annie tells Gwen goodbye, in her mind Annie calls her a monkey and says that she can barely finish a sentence without giggling. To Annie the roles of a woman are beneath her. She does not try to dumb herself down, as Gwen had done for anyone’s benefit. Annie also refuses to marry telling her
Let Me Hear Your Voice is about a woman who has a daughter named Anne-Marie. Anne-Marie seems to be developing normally. Slowly the little girl begins to withdraw and perform repetitive tasks. Worried that something is seriously wrong with her two year old daughter, Catherine takes her to several different doctors, starting with her pediatrician. This doctor recommends that Catherine take Anne-Marie to a specialist, who diagnoses her with “Infantile Autism.” Several other professionals agree with this conclusion. After doing a great deal of research, Catherine decides to start a home based program for her daughter. Anne-Marie goes through a series of different therapies and eventually “recovers.” During this time period, Catherine becomes pregnant and has a happy baby boy. His name is Michel. Again, around the age of one and a half, Michel begins to decrease his talking and to throw severe temper tantrums. Catherine, now being able to relate to some of the symptoms, take Michel to the specialists. Several of them agree o...
The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” by Audre Lorde demonstrates the use of two different rhetorical situation being used, pathos and telos. The author begins by opening up with a anecdotal, telling a story of the moment she found out she had a tumor and there “was a 60 to 80 percent chance that the tumor was malignant” (Lorde 40) which served as a telos for why the essay was written. When Audre Lorde found out about her medical condition she knew she couldn't continue her life in silence but instead speak out and encourage others to do so as well, nevertheless “a situation faced by many women” (Lorde 40). The importance of speaking out is vital, being aware of the impact it could have on the lives of many other women, evidently
Up until now Lynn had it very tough growing up in a hearing world, but as soon as she started learning and using sign language her world turned around. Lynn finally gained a means of communication and Thomas and Louise were finally able to understand and communicate with their beautiful little girl with whom they were cut off from with a language barrier. Through communicating with other deaf individuals like her, Lynn finally felt like she was “normal” without trying to please the society’s normalcy.
From the beginning of the film until the end Annie is struggling to find her own self, often she is experiencing the negative cycle of the self-concept. Contributors to the self-concept include; self-esteem, reflected appraisal and social comparison, and all of this can be subjective, flexible and resistant to change. In the first parts of the movie it really showcases that
By stating how other people behave or interact, the author offers a great chance for readers to interpret fairly for themselves what the reason for any conflict may be, or the nature of any essential contrast between the narrator and other adults in the story. In the story, there are many self-righteous opinions from people, which seem to be ironic to the readers; For example, her mother’s aggressive attitude of showing off her daughter, her piano teacher’s self-praise claiming him as “Beethoven.” All of the narrations including conversation clearly depict a different characteristic between the narrator and other people. For instance, a conversation occurs between the narrator and her mother when the mother criticizing a girl who seems similar to the author on TV which reveals dissimilar understanding for both of them to each other’s behavior. At first, the daughter speaks out for the girl by questioning her mother by saying “why picking on her […] She’s pretty good. Maybe she’s not the best, but she’s trying hard.” The daughter actually is defending for herself and reflecting that she feels uncomfortable with her mother’s disregard of her hard work. She wants to get her mother’s compliments instead of her criticisms. However, her mother response of, “just like you,” and, “not the best. Because you not trying.” Here, her mother doesn’t really answer her question, instead wants her put more effort on trying, neglecting how much she has tried before. However, in her mother’s perspective, she has never tried hard enough. By narratively stating the conversations she has encountered, readers perceive a strong implication of the reason for a future conflict between her and her mother.
The point of view she expressed through out the whole text, was her own. She was able to keep readers insight of the psychoanalytic theory the story has. The actions the protagonist had in the story showed us how it affected her adult self, and how the issue developed a rebel over time. Even after years from when the recurring events took place, her actions as a child had an effect on both mother and daughter. This theory gives readers the idea that things that happen to people during childhood can contribute to the way they later function as
With that knowledge the deaf character gained more confidence when communicating and was able to achieve bigger goals in their life then when they had little to no knowledge of how things worked in society. Reading about these characters just gave me a small insight into the deaf community but with the documentary ”Through Deaf Eyes,” has open my mind and eyes that they are people who can thrive in and change the world just as anyone can when they put their mind to
Today’s society consists of numerous individuals who are diagnosed with disabilities that prevent them from partaking in their everyday tasks. Not everyone gets the chance to live a normal life because they might have a problem or sickness that they have to overcome. Deafness is a disability that enables people to hear. All deafness is not alike; it can range in many different forms. Some people like Gauvin, can be helped with a hearing aid, but some can’t because of their situation and health reasons. In society, hearing individuals consider deafness a disability, while the deaf themselves see it as a cultural significance. In the article “Victims from Birth”, appearing in ifemnists.com, Founding Editor Wendy McElroy, provides the story of
To him, the mute woman's voice sounded as if they have been "risen from the depths of her bowels or to have been drawn out from the bottom of an abyss." As the mute woman performed her vocal acrobatics on the phone, Changsu was mesmerized by her sound and ends up writing her a letter without even knowing who she is. The mute woman, who even the audience are not given any detailed information about, might have been Changsu's imagination. It is unclear whether she actually exists or not, but to think that Changsu claims to have witnessed a mute woman singing is not only unrealistic but sounds nearly
Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf” depicts a young girl whose selfish actions led her to her death, and years of torment. Andersen produces a gruesome tale of how immoral deeds can led to an afterlife of torture and suffering. However, Andersen’s fairy tale creates a deeper message for his child audience; if the sins of the dead are not prayed for, then those loved ones will rot and suffer for eternity. Andersen’s ghastly fairy tale paints a very vivid image of how mortality works.