Brain On Fire Analysis
The claim of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by author Susannah Cahalan is that even ruthless illnesses can be overcome. This is shown when a nurse asks her mother “Has she always been so slow?”(Ch 24 pg 120); when her therapist questions how she’s feeling, “‘I'll ask you again. How do you feel out of 100?’… ‘100,’… My mom finally agreed with my own assessment.” Susannah also used different structures to support her claim. In chapter 32 she uses problem/solution show us she tells us how the doctor who diagnosed her, with NMDA- receptor autoimmune encephalitis, found her a treatment that could save her life and many others (pg 162). In that same chapter she used cause and effect that since her doctor found her an oral treatment she could
finally go home (163). She also uses comparison/contrast to show us how much her illness had changed her before her treatments started (ch 35 pg 175). Using cause and effect again she shows us that she wants to find the cause of her disease to potentially stop others from getting it or landing in the syc’ ward (ch 35 pg 175). As a reader I used to only read fiction and fantasy books but loathed nonfiction books that the school would make us read. Now, I've found that there's a handful of nonfiction books that peak my interest and some that I can even connect to. I used to read about five chapters in an hour, depending on how long they were, but now I can read like seven chapters in sometimes less then that. The habits that I have grown into for reading is to read everyday, normally online because that’s the easiest way, and to visualize what is going on.
finally go home (163). She also uses comparison/contrast to show us how much her illness had changed her before her treatments started (ch 35 pg 175). Using cause and effect again she shows us that she wants to find the cause of her disease to potentially stop others from getting it or landing in the syc’ ward (ch 35 pg 175). As a reader I used to only read fiction and fantasy books but loathed nonfiction books that the school would make us read. Now, I've found that there's a handful of nonfiction books that peak my interest and some that I can even connect to. I used to read about five chapters in an hour, depending on how long they were, but now I can read like seven chapters in sometimes less then that. The habits that I have grown into for reading is to read everyday, normally online because that’s the easiest way, and to visualize what is going on.