Sound & Fury

When watching Sound and Fury, I noticed some very interesting things. Starting off was the family tree, the parents of the Dad's their parents were not deaf, one of the sons were and the other wasn't the son that was married a woman that was deaf and had three deaf siblings, then the other brother married a woman and they had twins, one deaf and one not, the wife's parents were both deaf. 

I believe that Heather, the daughter that was born into a family that was all deaf should have gotten the cochlear implant. One thought I had, in the case of Heather, if she did get it and her parents decided or she decided later in live she would prefer to be deaf, if they could just take the piece that is connected on the outside of her head and in her ear. After doing some research, I found out that if you get the implant the only way they will remove it is if there is a failure, protrusion, migration, or headaches it they are chronic. In the research I found they are talking about doing the surgery and completely removing it, but what if they just removed the stuff on the outside of the head would that be a huge problem? Another question I had was, the technology, if they get a better high definition implant to use will they go back and change the people with the implant that doesn’t have the technology as the newer ones? A final question I had, putting these cochlear implants on little kids and half of it is in their brain and the other half is on the outside of their head, would I cause a problem if they were playing and got caught on it? 

I could be over thinking this concept of getting the implant and all of the potential problems that could come from it, but in agreeing to the implant for Heather, she could help her family communicate with people that didn’t know how to sign and be a personal translator for them. In that point, it helps not only her communicate with her friends that speak and hear things she would never be able to her, but helps her family. She may not sign outside of the house when she is with her friends, but I believe if she did end up getting the implant, she would still sign even though they say they would rather have her trying to speak.  One thought that came to mind, they say if she gets the implant they don’t want her signing anymore and have her try to speak. But if she lives in a house where no one can speak how would she communicate with her family? So that came to mind that in the place she was in she shouldn’t have gotten it. She wouldn’t be able to communicate with her family.

In the end, I believe Heather’s parents made the right choice not having her get the implant, but maybe farther down in life she should get it.