For cancer patients it is always questioned by others whether the patient wants to live or not to live. Most do want to live and that is the case for Mrs. Wilson of Thom Jones' "I Want to Live!" The woman is told that she has cancer and that she can hold it off through Chemo, which she takes. This is sign number one that she wants to live. I don't know how many of you have watched someone go through this sort of thing but it is not pretty to watch. I've stood by the sidelines and watched as a person does go through it and that woman is my hero. Anyone that can do what Mrs. Wilson did, fight until the end, is a hero in my eyes. Sign number two that a person wants to live is their resolve to partake in the aforementioned fight. To go to the doctor's every week sometimes twice a week is not easy.
The thing that interests me the most is how Jones draws out certain words like cancer writing it "can...cer" or passages like "She...came to...went out, came back again...went out." He has a very choppy writing style that draws the reader to feel what Mrs. Wilson is feeling in the constant struggle for her life.
This was another story that pulls on heart strings and one that I know will always be close to my heart.
Posted by Tiffany Brattina at May 5, 2005 4:22 PM | TrackBack