Chapter 22 -- He’s Blind for a Reason, You Know
Chapter 23 -- It’s Never Just Heart Disease...
Chapter 24 -- ...And Rarely Just Illness
Recall two characters who died of a disease in a literary work. Consider how these deaths reflect the “principles governing the use of disease in literature” (215-217). Discuss the effectiveness of the death as related to plot, theme, or symbolism
In A Walk to Remember, Jaime who is only a teenager, dies of leukemia. Her death makes the love between her and Landon all the more tragic. In the book, when Jaime tells Landon about her disease, it adds to the plot of the movie because she says, " I'm dying Landon.". Which puts him into immediate shock because he thinks that she is absolutely perfect in every way.
In The Last Song, Ronnie does not know why she and her brother have to stay with their father for a whole summer. Her parents divorced three years earlier and she had been resenting him ever sense. Only when Ronnie discovers that her father is slowly dying does she learn to reconnect with him through their love of music. When her father dies, it changed her outlook on life because she had been reminded just how much she loved music and the whole reason she started playing; because of her father, Steve.
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