Patient By Rachel Riederer Analysis
Courtney Luttrell
Dr. White
English 101
4 September 2012
Patients Can Be Positive: Danticat Thought in “Patient” and “Topic of Cancer” Once I was exposed to reading “Patient” and “Topic of Cancer” I put myself in Christopher Hitchens and Rachel Riederer shoes and realized how humor, can be used in a horrendous situation. Not everyone may know what a cancer patient has to go through but as days go by everyone has been through a situation that cannot handle on his or her own. By reading these two articles, I automatically had a mental image of what and how the narrator felt. In the article, “Patient”, Riederer is trying to lighten the mood by using humor throughout the whole article. Both articles have multiple similarities that have personal anecdotes that explain their life story. The articles are similar with Hitchens and Riederer with the use of tone in the “Patient” and “Topic of Cancer” through humor, images and horrible situations. …show more content…
In the article, “Patient” a teenager was hit by a bus and later on was informed that her leg may need to be amputated. The author uses phrases saying, “I feel like I got hit by a bus” to show his expression on how he truly feels about this situation (Riederer 166). Hitchens, the author of the “Topic of Cancer” expresses humor throughout the article in ways of saying, “The chest hair that was once the toast of two continents hasn’t yet wilted, but so much of it was shaved off for various hospital incisions that it’s a rather patchy affair” (Hitchens 88). Hitchens is expressing how he has lost all of his hair, and he can still look at it in a humorous way (The Best American
Dr. White
English 101
4 September 2012
Patients Can Be Positive: Danticat Thought in “Patient” and “Topic of Cancer” Once I was exposed to reading “Patient” and “Topic of Cancer” I put myself in Christopher Hitchens and Rachel Riederer shoes and realized how humor, can be used in a horrendous situation. Not everyone may know what a cancer patient has to go through but as days go by everyone has been through a situation that cannot handle on his or her own. By reading these two articles, I automatically had a mental image of what and how the narrator felt. In the article, “Patient”, Riederer is trying to lighten the mood by using humor throughout the whole article. Both articles have multiple similarities that have personal anecdotes that explain their life story. The articles are similar with Hitchens and Riederer with the use of tone in the “Patient” and “Topic of Cancer” through humor, images and horrible situations. …show more content…
In the article, “Patient” a teenager was hit by a bus and later on was informed that her leg may need to be amputated. The author uses phrases saying, “I feel like I got hit by a bus” to show his expression on how he truly feels about this situation (Riederer 166). Hitchens, the author of the “Topic of Cancer” expresses humor throughout the article in ways of saying, “The chest hair that was once the toast of two continents hasn’t yet wilted, but so much of it was shaved off for various hospital incisions that it’s a rather patchy affair” (Hitchens 88). Hitchens is expressing how he has lost all of his hair, and he can still look at it in a humorous way (The Best American