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Hana Abu Shammala.
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My presentation
The use of Force
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The use of Force
William Carlos William
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William Carlos William
He was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, in 1883.
began writing poetry while a student at Horace
Mann High School, at which point he made the
decision to become both a writer and a doctor. He
received his M.D. from the University of
Pennsylvania. He wrote the story The Use of Force
in 1933 .
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• William Carlos Williams The Use of Force deals
  with a variety of emotions felt by a doctor
  during a house call. The story begins when a
  physician is summoned to make a house call on a
  family with whom he has had no prior contact. He
  quickly sizes up the situation the household is
  poor but clean the patient is a female child
  whose parents are nervously concerned, dependent
  on and yet distrustful of the doctor. The child's
  beauty and penetrating stare make an immediate
  impression on him. Concerned that diphtheria may
  be the cause of illness, he uses his customary
  professional manner to determine whether the
  child has a sore throat. The girl, however, won't
  open her mouth. She fights him off and all
  attempts to cajole her into compliance fail. He
  forces the girl's father to hold her down, while
  he manages to pry open her mouth after a long
  battle. She does, in fact, have diphtheria. The
  Use of Force is a story that employs the use of
  connotative language to convey its socially
  relevant theme within a brief conflict. William
  Carlos Williams uses situational irony to support
  his theme as seen in the quote, Then I grasped
  the child's head with my left hand and tried to
  get the wooden tongue depressor between her teeth
  

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The characters
  Williams clearly shows that the protagonist in
this short story is the doctor.   The doctor's
job is to diagnose the little girl and the girl,
did not want to open her mouth, shows that she is
the antagonist.   Williams also uses the parents
of the girl to show that the doctor has authority
and power over the situation.
The doctor
the little girl Mathilda
parents The
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The point of view

• The point of view in the story The Use of Force
  is in first person narrative. This conveys inner
  the inner thoughts of the narrator as the doctor.
  The doctor is a reliable narrator and an
  observer. I feel The narrator for this story may
  have been thought of as Williams himself
  Williams is also a doctor in reality and that is
  probably the biggest reason for him to make one
  of the main characters a doctor. .

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.. Since the doctor was the one telling the story
that made us, the audience, saw everything
through his eyes. We got his perspective on the
situation. The main issue that he was having was
getting the little girls mouth open wide enough
for a long enough period of time. Seeing it
through his point of view made us see how and why
it was important for him to do this. However, if
it had been through another character's point of
view we may have had some trouble understanding
his reasoning.  
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Mathilda views the doctor as an enemy, and
refuses to talk to him. The parents have asked
her and she has said that her throat does not
hurt, but the doctor does not believe that they
have been told the .So the truth The rage the
doctor feels towards his young sick patient is a
representation of Williams message, which is the
user of force loses his humanity in the minds of
others. While irony is used to contrast the loss
of humanity the use of symbols reinforces the
main theme..
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Conflict

• The main conflict is between Mathilda and the
  doctor. The doctor needs to check Mathilda's
  throat to see if she has Diphtheria, but the girl
  will not open her mouth.

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There is also a conflict between the parents and
themselves/the doctor. They want to go along with
the doctor because they know he must check, but
they do not want force or hurt their daughter .
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The setting
It takes place at a familys home. I think it
takes place somewhere in the early 1900's. I
think it would make a difference to the story if
it were set somewhere else, only because if the
sick girl was brought to like a hospital for
example, maybe she would have been diagnosed and
helped sooner without all the hassle that
occurred at the house.
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The events of the story is simple. It does not
seem too complicated and is easy to make sense
of. The author makes his points, and plot of the
story clear and easy to understand .
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The theme

• The theme in of this story is about the user of
  the force who loses his humanity in the minds of
  others. This implicate that not everyones means
  cannot always justify their ends. This theme may
  not be general but through the story it was build
  up firmly. The story reflects a social issue on
  whether force is an applicable method to attain
  ones goal or to gain benefits for the majority.
  Both characters involve, the doctor and the child
  patient, try to win this fight with a conduct
  that isn't regulated by social norms. The story
  indicates a lack of obedience from the girl and
  self-discipline from the doctor. It is now easier
  to comprehend how social roles and personal
  impulses get incorrectly mixed creating a
  disruptive working environment.

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