Words Left Unspoken By Leah Cohen Summary

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Cohen’s grandfather, despite being unable to hear and speak, lived a pleasant life filled with compassion, happiness, and humor throughout. Because Cohen could not communicate verbally with her grandfather, it appears that in the past, Cohen may have viewed his deafness as an inconvenience. In “Words Left Unspoken,” Leah Cohen, with sensory imagery conveys the successful methods her deaf grandfather utilized to communicate and the lingering regret she has over her inability to speak to him before his death. To highlight her grandfather’s nature, Cohen illustrates her grandfather’s “strong jutting chin… [that] against [her] young face felt like a chunk of honed granite swatched in stiff white bristles,” Cohen asserts that he would “nuzzle [her]

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