The novel Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse,a nuclear accident has occurred and changed Nyle Sumner's life. Various themes can be used to represent the book. Acceptance is one of the themes that shown up during the novel. Nyle doesn’t want to do anything with Ezra. Accepting the accident that happened, she took in the fact that the radiation took innocent lives, but Muncie will be there for her because of friendship. Friendship is a big factor in our lives. Feeling accepted for who you are and having a companion is a desire everyone urges to have. “I liked Muncie. Nobody else ever bothered getting to know her. They just looked at her big head, short arms, and legs, and thought they knew everything about her.” People judge based on looks, social …show more content…
We all have to do things we don’t want to do, just like Nyle. In Ezra’s letter, he addresses how he knew Nyle didn’t want him there. Even though she never told him, Nyle says a lot without talking. She was the one who guided him back to health. Even though he was a stranger. This shows how Nyle accepted Ezra gradually as she took care of him, though at first she didn’t want to do anything with him. “Ezra would be alive come spring. He had to be.” Although Ezra got his strength back slowly, Nyle tells herself that he will make it and he will still be alive until Spring comes. “It’s too late for Ezra, I said. But it’s not too late for the rest of us.” From this, Nyle accepted that Ezra died and that it isn’t too late for her to do something on Ezra’s behalf. When a loved one dies, it’s hard to accept the fact that they are gone from this world. Everyone has an expiration date but some take the fact that their loved one died and move on, others take more …show more content…
“With the plant capped, people would come back…..But after the things Mr.Sobel had said about radiation and waste, I really couldn’t relax.”, although Nyle accepted the fact the accident has happened, she can’t really feel relaxed about it. Ripley Powers, his dog had gone missing. Four months later Tyrus died of radiation poisoning, Ripley had blamed Ezra. Ripley couldn’t accept the fact that Ezra didn’t kill his dog through the accident but radiation had. “But accidents happened before.They happened in other places.” Nyle accepted that Cookshire left an impact on her life, and how accidents happened and you just need to accept reality. This reminded me of the Fukushima nuclear accident. People had to face the reality of dangers of
4365 Policy Book Report on Five Days at Memorial The book Five Days at Memorial, written by Sheri Fink illustrates the catastrophic impact of hurricane Katrina and its unprepared poor choices made by doctors who injected patients that ended their life, and the petrify stories of individuals that took place in New Orleans in August of 2005. After a couple of months in 2005 Memorial Center was under investigation for an estimate of two thousand patients that were in danger and other patients who died because of the horrific storm that struck that night. New Orleans, had to make the hardest decision in who in the hospital gets to evacuate first after the generators and the power failed. New Orleans, being one of the small towns
For the first part of the memoir Jeannette, talks about when she was three years old. She is cooking hotdogs by herself and accidentally gets set on fire. She gets rushed into the hospital and her dad, Rex takes her to avoid paying the hospital bills. They then skedaddle to another place. The main characters of this memoir includes
Fink’s Rhetorical Strategies: Facilitating the Consideration of Several Perspectives In Five Days at Memorial, Sheri Fink strikes a convincing balance between persuasion and objectivity. The events that took place during Hurricane Katrina continue to be scrutinized, and this book investigates the potentially unethical decisions made by people in authority. Doctors and nurses were forced to work long hours while suffering from severe emotional trauma, a fact that Fink does not discount in her assessment of their decision-making processes.
Principle theme Five days at Memorial by Sheri Fink tells the story of the days after Hurricane Katrina at one hospital in New Orleans. Memorial hospital owned by Texas based Tenet corporation had 312 short term acute care (STAC) beds, and leased the seventh floor to Lifecare for a long term acute care (LTAC) hospital. Lifecare’s LTAC at Memorial cared for medically fragile patients with long term complex medical needs. The hospital and health care providers received intense scrutiny after the hurricane due to the higher numbers of dead patients in comparison to comparable New Orleans hospitals, out of the 34 patients which died at the facility, 24 were Lifecare patients.
Human nature dictates that every action, no matter how selfless it appears, is inspired by a selfish reason. Flannery O'Connor shows this taken into consideration in her short story, “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”. The protagonist, Mr. Shiftlet, wanders onto the farm of old and young Lucynell. Mr. Shiftlet marries her daughter young Lucynell and does a handful of work for her including fixing her car, which he sees as a way of achieving freedom. With her use of symbolism and characterization O'Connor reveals that people play games of deceit to win their own selfish ends (Walters 82).
Mistakes are inevitable. Before Hurricane Katrina most individuals evacuated the areas that were likely to be flooded. Hospitals, including Memorial, were not required to evacuate like everyone else. This meant that over two hundred patients were still in the building and even more staff when Katrina hit. Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink explores what happened inside the hospital during the aftermath of the storm and the legal battles that persisted long after the week people were trapped inside the building.
Coming of Age in the Civil Rights Movement Despite slavery coming to an end in the mid 1800’s, African Americans struggled to live a truly free life. Even in the 20th century, poverty proved to be an inescapable burden that kept them stuck on the lowest levels of society. Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody is an autobiography about the struggle of growing up on a plantation in rural Mississippi during the Civil Rights era. Sharecropping played an extensive role at keeping former slaves in poverty. Sharecropping dominated the South, but this type of job inequality was widespread throughout the entire country, making it near impossible to obtain a respectable job, even branding a college degree.
What makes a good friend? According to World Book Online, friendship is a social relationship in which people help each other in times of need. This definition of friendship is evident in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. The novella takes place during the Great Depression, a time when seeing two guys travelling around together like George and Lennie is rare. George and Lennie’s friendship is strong because they care for each other, George’s leadership over Lennie, and they work through tough times to remain content in the end.
Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt is a realistic fiction book in which the theme of overcoming adversity and family are shown. Homecoming takes place in rural Connecticut sometime in the late 1960's. When their mother abandons them the Tillerman children must find a new home. Homecoming tells their journey to Bridgeport Connecticut and what they find there. Dicey, the main character, portrays many boy-like physical traits and displays the personality traits of perseverance, loyalty, and toughness.
Carrie pre-existing condition was triggered by an explosion, which caused her symptoms to surface resulting in the endangerment
Conformity Conformity is the behavior in accordance with socially accepted standards, rules, or laws. Conformity is expressed in the play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, in the two characters of Cyrano and Christian. Cyrano is insecure about his outside appearance and Christian’s insecurity is on the inside. Conformity creates justice and equality, but if rejected that leads to an individual having self esteem issues, and a society where there is no individuality. Conformity creates justice and equality in a society because of the laws and standards set to keep people safe and secure.
Companionship is the closeness or familiarity, a true fellowship among people who for some reason have a connection. “I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.” The quote is from Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. Robert Walton longs for a friend. The creature wanted a female companion.
In “A Worn Path”, enduring is the word that best describes Phoenix because she undergoes issues with her mind, an arduous journey, and a racist man. First of all, Phoenix perseveres through all of the mental problems that she has. The narrator says, “She did not dare to close her eyes, and when a little boy brought her a plate with a slice of marble-cake on it she spoke to him. " That would be acceptable," she said.
Companionship in Of Mice and Men It’s hard to imagine going through life without a single friend. Having at least one companion in life is essential to one 's mental well being. Simply having someone to talk to, knowing that there is at least one person in this crazy world that cares. Companions can be quite simple and can also be very complex.
A true friendship is something that everyone wants to have but not everyone can have it. in the novella Of Mice and Men the author shows the true meaning of friendship and these 2 best friends Lennie and George shows that they have Friendship and they love each other,care for each other and always have their backs i give some really great evidence and try to show you the relationship these guys had. Through the book George one of the two main characters he shows how he cares and takes care of his good friend the other important character Lennie,who was a mental disability but he still loves him but he does show some tough love. In the book George has been shown numerous times that he takes care of Lennie but the first quote It 's because Lennie was in trouble he was about to die,but his friend does something really beautiful “Couldn 't we just lock him up the poor bastards nuts{steinbeck 87}”In this quote he 's trying to convince the guys who were about to kill him by saying he didn 't know what he was doing,This quote means that he really cares for his friend and he 's trying to save him.