Cancer,
as we all know, gives people a high risk of death, but there are some
who survive it. In the podcast Rhetoric of Cancer, Andrew Graystone
says that "The
language of war dominates cancer discourse, so whether we want to
fight or not, people with cancer are conscripted into a battle
against the self. Our bodies made into war zones, with cancer as the
enemy, medical professionals as infallible heroes, and treatments of
search-and-destroy by any means possible.” In this line, he
associates cancer with war.
In
the podcast, Andrew is looking for the language appropriate to
cancer. He is doing this because he believes that language is
somewhat helpful in curing a person's illness. We all should not look
at the downside when we have illness because it will only make our
minds set on giving up, and it would consume us on really giving up
and loosing the fight with the illness and could lead us to death.
Flores, Frances Marie G.
2013-49177
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