1. May’s Lion by Le Guin. May’s Lion is a story told in another story. This story is told by the person that May had told the story. They are two stories in one. First May recount this story how one morning she woke up and found a sick mountain lion in her yard. Not aware of what to do she calls the police, who end up shooting the lion. According to her “there was nothing else that they could have done”. The second part of the story is by Mays friend who narrates it according to how she understands it. She says that when May finds the sick lion in her yard she does not involve the police. She instead gives the lion a bowl of milk and soothes him till he dies. According to her the lion had come looking for a place to die. These two stories offer a discussion on how we care about nature at the end of life. Are we allowed to soothe patients in his or her dying hour? But the question is how we will know what a patient wants during their dying hour if they cannot be able to tell. According to May, the lion came to her with a gift, and that was to help him at the time of death but the police took that gift …show more content…
The present by Dillard In the book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Dillard. In the sixth chapter, ‘The Present’. Dillard tries to focus on the world around in the present. In the whole book, she remains in the past and every time she tries to come to the present still she remains in the past. But every time she is in the present she makes us aware by saying that she is sitting under the tree to be specific a sycamore one. But every time she says this it brings her to the world that surrounds her. It brings her to all the things that she has known and studied. She realizes that they have all died, and she is still here sitting under the tree. She says that if anyone is thirsty or hungry to come and have food and water at the end. This now is her present. In the end, she realized that the present can only be waited upon with empty hands. 4. Time and the machine by
Thus she knew this sound from her tummy meant she had to go and eat something. Water wasn’t a concern, since the park was equipped with a drinking fountain, but food was more difficult to obtain. Not that it would discourage her from trying, of course. She wanted to make Adagio proud. So until Adagio came back, she would find food by herself.
In the story, the narrator explains how
A story has to be told by somebody. Explore in detail your impressions of the “story-teller” in Mountains Beyond Mountains. Was the “story-teller” the same as the writer (implicitly or explicitly) or not? How does this question influence your reading?
It shows her transition into happiness and recognising the blessings in her life. This book is cyclic; it begins and finishes with the girl in her bedroom with a negative view on how the day begins and ends. But then there is a tonal shift on page 23 when she says, “But suddenly there it is right in front of you bright and vivid quietly waiting”. The use of symbolism is used through a bright red leaf. The leaf is a constant motif throughout the book representing her blessings and the good things in her life, but she hadn’t taken the time to notice it.
Health Care givers should be aware of the issues on what to say and how to act,give emotional support,and when to use hospice care. An article stated,”Several scholars listed the implications of spirituality,including preserving the patient’s hope,helping the patient find meaning in life and death,and helping the patient find spirit.. ”(Qiaohong Guo and Cynthia S Jacelon,An integrative review of dignity in end-of-life care.)What this means is it is there to help the patient have hope,remember the good moments in life,and find the feeling of completeness so they can pass on from the physical world with no regrets. Healthcare givers can encourage their patients without giving false hope.
She is stuck in her own past, never truly different from her childhood. As a teacher, she finds herself bent to the will of children, for she is “no disciplinarian”(9). During her flashbacks, reveal the same silent disposition and passiveness to “the impertinence of children”(8), such as Ralph’s pushing and questioning about the lose chicks, to which Naomi (as a young child) “[does] not answer”(72). Even at thirty-six years of
Most people would never contemplate whether or not to end their family pet’s suffering, so why can’t people be as sympathetic to their family and friends? In today’s society, the legalization of physician-assisted suicide is one of the most debatable topics. The debates on physician-assisted suicide go back and forth between whether or not patients, specifically terminally ill patients, should have the right to die with the aid of doctors. Opponents believe physician-assisted suicide is morally and ethically wrong for patients to end their lives, and they believe it violates basic medical standards. However, proponents of physician-assisted suicide believe it is a humane and safe way for terminally ill patients to resolve their agony.
In detailing the events that led up to her change in perspective, she made note of the honeysuckle that covered the walls of the well-house, the warm sunshine that accompanied going outdoors, and the cool stream of water that she felt as she placed her hand under the spout. These details kept the reader with her in the moment as she felt something less simple, but still universal; the returning of a, “ misty consciousness as of something forgotten.” In using rich diction, she maintained a sense of intimacy with the reader which allowed her to call on personal details from her own life and theirs. Later in the passage, she described how, once the reality of language was opened to her, and she returned to the house, “every object which I touched seemed to quiver with life.” She had gone through a complete shift of perspective, one that, to her, was felt entirely through senses other than sight or sound.
It brought to my awareness both the limitation and the capacity of medicine. Although there was no medical intervention that could cure the diseases of those terminal patients, their quality of life was improved by an outstanding team of doctors, nurses and volunteers. This awareness helped reconcile myself to the fact that certain things, such as death and terminal illness, can not be avoided or changed. By viewing death as a natural part of life, I will be able to offer my dying patients the best care possible while also understanding my limitation as a physician and a human being.
The word “euthanize” means to bring about a person’s death to relieve them from serious distress. The topic of euthanasia in medicine has evolved since intensive care was first instituted. Before the 1950’s, a simple model was used to determine when someone was dead: the individual was dead when his or her heart stopped beating. In the modern light, the answer to this question isn’t as clear. With advancements in organ transplantation and other medical technologies, the stopping of a beating heart is no longer a definite death sentence.
Another similarity of these tales is that both writers had prodigious confidence that the bodies of whom they had killed would not be discovered. It is described by both writers in the stories that they welcomed the police into their homes. Neither of the narrators
The Goddess was approaching the domain of the Witch of Morpheus, where the night fliers now made their home. Jayna's memory had fully returned, the bad along with the good, but she was finally at peace with it. Jayna resolved to stop looking backward to the dead past, live in the present and look to the future, but first she had to do
As the past and future impose upon the present state, time reveals itself to be more of a rounded body which interacts in a way that defies the limitations created by the segmented chronicle. This way, the narrator remains constrained by the straight experience of his present state and the ability of change to happen in his memory, while time functions in a unpredictable way. Individuals are vulnerable against the principles of time, and ultimately the novela suggests that the power of the present, allows the individuals to change the meaning given to the past and
The poems “To the Mercy Killers” by Dudley Randall and “How Annandale Went Out” by Edwin Arlington Robinson are both about the same topic, death by euthanasia, but there are still many differences between the each of these. The two meanings of the poems are shown through the use of various literary devices but ultimately revolve around the same idea; the concept of mercy killing. The main difference between the two poems are the stance each one takes on euthanasia. “To the Mercy Killers” by Dudley Randall is a poem about euthanasia. The speaker begs for his or her life, even though they seem to be better off dead.