The documentary Sound and Fury shed great deal of light on the morality of utilizing cochlear implants to allow for deaf people to hear again. Specifically, this film focused on the decisions that families have to make when deaf children are born into deaf or hearing families. There are several obvious positive impacts that come with the ability to hear through the use of a cochlear implant, and the movie points some of these out. In the first place, children who receive the surgery when they are young have the opportunity to learn a speaking language because their brains are still developing language mechanisms. The five year old girl named Heather told her family that she wished to have the surgery in order to have the ability to communicate with her hearing friends and family. Additionally, Heather asks another young girl who has had the cochlear implant surgery what it is like to hear things like alarms and cars crashing. …show more content…
Heather’s father, Peter, is also a member of the deaf community. However, he strongly believes that implanting his daughter with the hearing device would change her identity and pose a threat to the deaf community. He pointed out that he has been successful in his career despite his lack of hearing. Yet, the film points out that Peter relies on several translators, emails, and writing things down in order to communicate with others in the workplace. Peter further admits that he cannot advance any further in his career because he is not able to completely communicate on his own. This goes to show that more job opportunities are available to those who opt for the cochlear