Alzheimer's Short Story Babysitting Helen

Ruth is really hard to like especially when we as reader see what's really going on with Dawn and what she's going through. Ruth always turns to Barbra thinking that one of these times something will change. I really think that that's a bad idea and she shouldn't do that. If i were Ruth and i kept getting nervous calls concerning a child i would try to do so much more than give the mother another chance. Dawn almost killed herself because of her mother not being there for her and loving her like normal parents would do for their children.

One way that Catherine changed was after her encounter with the old Jewish Lady. The old lady told her, “ ‘Little Bird, in the world to come, you will not be asked “Why were you not George?’ or ‘Why were you not Perkin’ but ‘Why were you not Catherine?’ ” (Cushman 17). Catherine didn’t fully understand what it meant at first, but the old woman’s words helped her later when it really mattered. When Shaggy Beard’s messengers came, Catherine ran to her Aunt Ethelfritha’s house in fear and desperation. While she was there, the old Jewish woman’s words finally gained some meaning.

Tan’s mother then becomes unwilling to express her needs to the other since her broken English is always ignored. Yet what Tan expressed using perfect English is always be answered. For example, the stockbroker and doctor respond to Tan requested immediately but neglect her mother’s demand. Fence was built between the native English world and Tan’s mother’s broken English world. And that is the reason why many people have the fear of studying languages

I remeber the mornings mamaa would make hot pockets for breakfast and i also remember when i lost my taste buds because that hot pocket was just a little too hot. Those nights when we would just eat popcorn all night watching all the new movies we had bought. Sometimes we would just see who could stay up longer I would always win so one night I thought I would pour whipped cream of her face while she was sleeping. The next morning I heard her scream my name , oh boy the of sound of her voice didn 't sound as if she was happy. I got up and went to the living room where mamaa was awaiting.

While just starting her adulthood she had a major brain surgery, which caused a lot of severe pain. Since she had the surgery and they chunk of skull/brain taken out this affected and made her nervous with her balance. With perseverance she was able to work back to a normal health and get some of her balance back. Buck and my mom are similar because they both were in a bad state of health, but with

“Sullivan used the manual alphabet to teach Helen”(Bailey). Sullivan would teach Keller by spelling the signed letters into Kellers palm. Keller eventually learned basic words but she did not understand that the words had connection, for example she knew words like mug or milk but could not connect them to their objects. Sullivan and Keller finally had reached a crisis salvation when Sullivan poured water on Kellers hand while spelling water. “Helen suddenly caught on and began to demand the names of everything and everyone around her”(Bailey).

“Colors seemed different”, is just one detail that Alice explained after her awakening (Coakley, 2). She explains that the previous memories of her body do not line up with what she is seeing, and that she is therefore in discomfort. It is stated that ‘When she tried to speak, she bit her tongue, which was enormous in her mouth and tasted funny. When she finally learned to speak, the tone was different but the accent was the same’ (Coakley, 2).

Throughout the story, Alice tries to find her true identity. Alice is also quite unsure when it comes to her new body, and she is has a hard time taking in the changes that she has gone through such at wondering if her soul is really hers. Her body will tell her one thing, but her mind will tell her something completely different. Alice is struggling for other people to accept her, like her sister Jenny. The hospital is the worst place that Alice could be because she feels awkward and discontented.

As Miss Brill was looking to eavesdrop so that she could have her feeling of importance fulfilled again, the opposite turns to happen. To the young couple, Miss Brill is seen as a very old, un important and non desirable person. In fact they even believe she is weird due to the shabby fur she wears all the time. The young couple knows that Miss Brill always likes to sit in and listen to their conversations, so they choose to day to confront her with the reality. Talking like they normally do, they began to change the topic very abruptly as soon as they realized Miss Brill was listening.

However, right after she mentions little on difference feminism, she mentions a more equality feminism viewpoint. She continues to do this in the following 10 pages, constantly fluttering between the two ideas. Constantly throwing her reader from side to side confuses him/her, since he/she cannot keep track on which topic she is on nor which side she is for. Although it is better to appear unbiased, Pollitt just ends up confusing and jumbling her reader’s mind. In order to have a better focus, she should have discussed one form, then discussed the other as opposed to switching every two to three paragraphs.