I have recently watched your documentary film “Sound and Fury” about the cochlear implant, and have seen the pressure you have been facing from your relatives on being for and friends who are against the cochlear implant. I may not be able to fully understand the challenges that you may have faced in the deaf culture, I have some insight on how it is like after reading the article “The Mask of Benevolence”, by Harlan Lane, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, on how the procedure is done and the challenges that kids may face after the implant. In the documentary Heather’s grandmother mentioned about how deaf culture is starting to become extinct due to people not being exposed to the culture as time goes by and that …show more content…
With this option, she may still be able to identify herself as part of deaf culture because, in the documentary, I learned that some kids prefer to stay in deaf culture even after the have received the implant because they feel more comfortable staying with their culture. Although she may feel the same as the kids who decided to stay with deaf culture, she may also want to learn more about hearing culture and how both hearing and deaf culture is different. As she is learning more about the hearing culture, Heather may also learn more about her own culture at the same time because she may learn about the difficulties that her parents have faced while growing up and that there were fewer opportunities for them while growing up. With the knowledge that she may learn about the two cultures, Heather may want to change the way society is separating the two cultures by being the bridge that connects them together where everyone may be able to understand one