After reading Susan Sontag’s piece Illness as Metaphor/AIDS and its Metaphors I was both confused and interested in what she had to say. The information I got after reading the selection was that at first when diseases like TB and cancer were first introduced into the human system, people thought that it was infectious and the person was considered evil because they was no cure for the disease people didn’t know what the exact effects of the illness really was. I liked how the author went into detail about how people were legitimately scared of getting cancer and how people with cancer ended up having horrible lives. I was however confused with the whole introduction on AIDS and the description of metaphors. I thought that the author could have elaborated more clearly and wrote on a level that was understandable to a more broader crowd.
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