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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Amy's Life
Please provide a summary of Amy Medford’s life events. Throughout the movie we see “snipits” and hear a little more about her background.
While we don't know much about Amy's life before she came to teach at the school, we do know a few vital facts that help us understand who she is and why she is the way she is. To start off, we know that she had a very unhealthy marriage with her husband; he treated her as merely an object, they always argued about stupid little things, and she married him only to fit in and feel like she belonged. She soon gave birth to a deaf son, whom she taught she speak through oralism. Amy's world revolved around her son, she felt as if he was her greater purpose in life, and when he was sent to the state residential school by her husband her world began to crumble. Soon after they were separated, the son died while at the state school for the Deaf and Amy closed herself off. Filled with grief, and resentment towards her husband, she left without notice to start her new career teaching deaf children to speak at a new school. The beginning of the movie picks up here, and we see her struggle of grasping acceptance and understanding from the people at the school, and her eventual success in her career. -Angelina
While we don't know much about Amy's life before she came to teach at the school, we do know a few vital facts that help us understand who she is and why she is the way she is. To start off, we know that she had a very unhealthy marriage with her husband; he treated her as merely an object, they always argued about stupid little things, and she married him only to fit in and feel like she belonged. She soon gave birth to a deaf son, whom she taught she speak through oralism. Amy's world revolved around her son, she felt as if he was her greater purpose in life, and when he was sent to the state residential school by her husband her world began to crumble. Soon after they were separated, the son died while at the state school for the Deaf and Amy closed herself off. Filled with grief, and resentment towards her husband, she left without notice to start her new career teaching deaf children to speak at a new school. The beginning of the movie picks up here, and we see her struggle of grasping acceptance and understanding from the people at the school, and her eventual success in her career.
ReplyDelete-Angelina