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Courage in the face of adversity helps the narrator to overcome cancer.
Introduction
Faced by the adversity of a devastating disease in the name of cancer, the narrator courageously battles the illness and triumphs. This is evident from Rolf Schmid’s short story. No need to lie.
i) My will power was strong and determined
- He thought Rolf, if it is cancer, you can battle an win but if it were AIDS .
- ‘I have children, a wife, a business and a future No I am not going to die.'
- He prayed and took a deep breath when he went for radiation treatment.
ii) He had an ardent personality.
- His ardent personality kept him from giving up.
- 'When I was at my lowest, I summoned the faces of my
children one by one as a visual reminder of the reasons I had for living.'
- He kept telling himself.
“you can’t die, not now.”
iii) He came up with an innovative feeding method because he would not eat.
- He would go to the bedroom with half inch rubber pipe, insert it in my throat and pour the fluid food and water through it right into his food pipe.
- It was painful and torturous but he did it to beat cancer.
iv) He goes through the chemotherapy sessions with courage.
- When the doctor tells him he has to go through chemotherapy he comes to terms with it.
- He knew how sick it made patients feel, hair loss even
going bald.
- His friend Alberto tells him his survival and reaction depended on mind over matter.
- He decides to prove that cancer is a process that requires a strong will power, food and optimism.
Conclusion
- In a nutshell the narrator successfully battles cancer through will power, physical strength and mental strength.
marto answered the question on August 27, 2019 at 12:28
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