Essay on Abstract: Writing and Figurative Speech

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This essay analyzes the relationship of a son with his mother who is suffering from dementia and the effect on his family. The essay portrays the issues faced by the writer who cared for his mother during her illness. The essay emphases on the experience of a famous writer and a formal party leader, Michael Ignatieff and his journey as he explains the effects of his mother’s sickness on the relationship with his family. ‘Deficits’ is taken from Scar Tissue, another piece of fictional work by ignatieff which focuses on relationship between a son and his mother suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, the disease his own mother suffered and died from. Michael ignatieff has used figurative speech in his story ‘Deficits’. Figurative speech is an expression that uses language in a non-literal way designed to explain a concept further. Figurative speech such as anaphora and metaphors are used by the writer to articulate his feelings and emotions to attract the readers. Focusing more on figurative speech used by ignatieff, the essay gives a brief description of the summary of the essay ‘Deficits’. Therefore, the essay analyzes the expressions used by the writer and its significance on the story.
Key words: Alzheimer, relationship, figurative speech, struggled, illness, individual, stages, conversations, experiences, dementia.

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VALPY, M. (Ed.). (2006, August 26). Being Michael Ignatieff. Retrieved from: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/being-michael-ignatieff/article4325078/?page=all Michael Granville Valpy is a Canadian journalist and author. He wrote for The Globe and Mail newspaper where he covers both political and human interest stories. He has known Michael ignatieff for 40 years, ever since they were both young reporters for the same newspaper.
DeFalco, Amelia. “Dementia, Caregiving, and Narrative in Michael Ignatieff’s Scar tissue.” Retrieved from: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities v. 4 (May 31, 2012), http://occasion.stanford.edu/node/103.
Amelia Defalco is a postdoctoral fellow at McMaster University researching the ethics of caregiving in contemporary Canadian literature. She is author of uncanny subjects and published essays in fiction. In her essay ‘Dementia, Caregiving, and Narrative in Michael Ignatieff’s Scar tissue’, Defalco addresses the relationship of the narrator and his ailing mother, exploring the impacts of compulsive memory loss in old
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