‘People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babblings in Peed Onk’

`People Like That Are the Only People Here : Canonical Babblings in Peed Onk

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Although everyone has different experiences and no one life is the same we all live with a certain unspoken right to have a full and normal life . We see harmful and hurtful and even unimaginable things happening around us and we feel bad , but in the back of our minds we know that our own life doesn 't have a place or allow for these experiences to happen to us

personally . If by chance something of this nature , something like cancer or a tumor , was to happen to us or our direct family we feel that our life now is different . That it is not longer really our life anymore . That our life has been taken away and a new and foreign life has taken its place . From then on we have to decide if we are going to values that we held on to so closely in our old life , or are we going to hold on to them just as tightly in an effort to combine these two lives that we now have . The people in this story went through this mental process when they heard the devastating news of their child 's illness

The Husband and Mother had to accept and determine how they were going to handle this new life that was forced upon them . The Mother in this story knows that the life she is now being forced to live is completely foreign to her but to admit that would be the end of her familiar life She at first tries to become those sweat pant mom 's ' but then soon realizes , with the help of her outside friends , that this new life is inevitable that that she has to do it her own way

One of the pivotal issues throughout this whole story is how the mother handles their situation as opposed to how the husband chooses to handle it . From the very beginning the Husband clings to the advice and expertise of the doctors and experienced parents . He takes the route that everyone is expected to take in this situation . He keeps insisting that the Mother take notes about their experience and then write about it like she would with one of there fictional stories . However , the Mother sees their new life from different eyes than the Husband and many of those around her . It seems that the mother not taking notes is part of her effort to take ownership of this new life . She writes fiction and if she starts taking notes and writing about this it will seem fictional and prevent her from taking ownership or having any semblance of control . To her this is an unsayable ' life , she feels that she cannot even begin to condense it down to something any other person could read or understand

Throughout the whole story the Mother listens to the doctor 's views and recommendations...