I found this article very hard to read. It was quite lengthy and hard to understand. Maybe it was because I had other things in mind or I just wasn't interested in it; either way I still did not find it enjoyable. I'm one of those readers that need to be able to connect with the reading. If I find no way to connect I find it boring.
What I did manage to get out of the article was the importance of illness narratives. Patients need some way to cope with their illness. What better way than learning about someone who has gone through the same illness? Frank explained how he was in search for a story he could relate too but found none. This is what inspired him to write his own story in coping with cancer.
Towards the end is where he lost me, when he started about "truthtellers and tricksters". He totally lost me. I had no idea what he was talking about and what his definitions of them were. I would've liked if he had explained them a little better or clearer. Overall, the piece wasn't terrible it had its interesting parts but I wouldn't have read it for fun.
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