A delicate operation
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Being a surgeon can be nerve wracking. Surgery pushes your mind to its full mental capabilities. In "A Delicate Operation," a surgeon must perform brain surgery on a very willing patient in the hopes she will be able to see correctly out of both eyes. The surgeon will have to remove a tumor just below the brain and could cause problems whether they removed it or not. First of all, the tumor is benign so that means that it isn't cancerous. Even though it isn't cancerous, that doesn't mean it can't physically harm the patient. Connected to many blood vessels, the tumor could keep growing until the patient would not be able to see anymore and it could not be removed at all. There are risks of removing it though too. A blood vessel could be damaged causing a stroke or even worse, part of the brain could be damaged causing loss of memory, change in mood and personality, or even death. The patient and her husband weighed the pros and cons and decided to go for the operation. During the procedure, the surgeon had to complete many steps. After first locating where the tumor was, he began dissecting it to be removed. He had removed the bulk of it when he saw that the rest of the tumor had attached to one of the patients optic nerve, which was preventing the patient from seeing clearly. "The operation had required seven hours"(3). A quote from the text shows just how long a brain surgery operation can last. It can be very elaborate and complicated; therefore, it can go completely wrong or right. The left optic nerve was gray and thin, and most likely not recover. All in all, the operation succeeded and it showed even though surgeons are pressured immensely, they can still accomplish the task at hand.
Why it's non-fictionOf course non-fiction is based on events that are true and have actually happened. "A Delicate Operation" has real people and obviously is based off of a real surgery. These two points alone prove that this short story is non-fiction.
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The Five r's of literature
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Connection"A Delicate Operation" and "Into Thin Air" are related in a couple of ways. First of all, they are both based off of real accounts of people's lives. Another way that they are related is based off of life or death situations. In "A Delicate Operation," a surgeon has someone's life in his hands, and if he messes up, he would be responsible. Also, in "Into Thin Air," somebody risks their own life just to be able to say he climbed Mount Everest.
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