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Susanna KaysenA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Use this activity to engage all types of learners while requiring that they refer to and incorporate details from the text over the course of the activity.
“Perspective of a Young Nurse”
In this activity, students will write Kaysen’s story from the perspective of one of the student nurses Kaysen befriends while she is a patient at McLean Hospital.
While at McLean Hospital, Kaysen encounters a variety of nurses and doctors. She and the other patients grow particularly fond of the student nurses in charge of their care, noting that their younger age helps them to better understand the patients and that their friendship works better than therapy.
Taking into account Kaysen’s theory that the generation gap plays a significant role in the ways she and other patients are (mis)treated and (mis)understood by older doctors and nurses, write a brief account of Kaysen’s story from the perspective of a student nurse. Consider the culture of the 1960s in the United States as you address the following questions in your analysis:
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