Critical Lens Essay On The Broken Country

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In this week’s readings, we dive head-first into the strain that disabilities can have on an individual, and how autonomy and agency can be destroyed and rebuilt through advocacy and recognition.

In Linton's "Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity," the author writes about the crucial intricate moving parts, their societal and political framework, and how those funnel into an individual’s daily thoughts, feelings, and values. Linton’s essay provides us with a framework of concepts to apply to our remaining material.

For our second and third readings, we are instructed to navigate the prohibitive factors of autonomy and agency. In Molly McCully Brown's "The Broken Country" we are taken into the life of someone with cerebral palsy. We …show more content…
In Robert Anthony Siegel’s “Thirteen Ways of Listening to The Rain,” the author shares a poetic take on his mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s. We are shown that even with the burden on Siegel (losing the bubbly personality and the desire to have her back as she was before), his mother is still overcoming obstacles in her mind (hiking up her little mountain in Manhattan).” I told her about it in the morning and she said she didn’t remember the dream, didn’t remember being frightened, had had a deep dreamless sleep and felt fine now, great, in fact, without a hint of fear or sadness” (Siegel). The reader can conclude that it was Solomon’s dream and not his wife, showing the psychological impact of having someone close to you lose their character and become a shell of their former self. Helen Keller’s “Three Days to See,” describes how she would live life if she could be granted vision for three days. Not just if she could see, but if she was on a time limit to experience something that many people take for granted every day. Even though she can observe the world through touch, she knows some of the most spectacular and even the simplest things in life are meant to be observed and she longs for that kind of beauty
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