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Numb By Molly Mccully Brown And The Screen Film Coda

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Overcoming Ablest Bias Together
The essay “Numb” written by Molly McCully Brown and the screen film Coda, both focus on people living different lives while dealing with physical disabilities. Both of these works are examples of showing that anyone can be faced with adversity and still overcome the challenges that come along with life.
Molly McCully Brown is the author of many poems, essays, short stories, and more. Within these works, she describes the many challenges she has encountered over her lifespan as she lives with her disability. Throughout her writing, she also tells others’ points of view. She uses descriptive writing to help the readers truly understand. For example, in the short story entitled “Numb”, Brown provides insight into her experiences inside a hospital room, where she is having a surgical procedure. Unfortunately due to her disability, the doctors neglected to inform her of all of the details about her surgery. Brown states in the essay, “They do not know that I can understand/and so, nobody says a word” (Brown 9-10). This proves that they neglected to tell her about all the changes that were occurring in her body because they did not think she was capable of understanding. Additionally the essay …show more content…

Throughout the movie, we focus on Ruby wanting to pursue her passion and goals in life, however, she has always been her family’s translator. In one scene of the movie, when Ruby is pursuing her dreams and singing, her family is pursuing their dreams on the boat, fishing and selling the fish. In this scene, the father expresses to Ruby, “They suspended my license… The observer saw we were deaf and tipped them off” (Heder). This shows that there were no set-in-stone rules posted, and since they were deaf there were no second choices for the family besides suspending them because they didn’t have proper

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