“The creature stood up slowly. It took the old cloth off its head, and put it on the chair.”
Frederick Treves who is a doctor at the London Hospital saw a picture of a man by accident looked like an elephant in the window of a shop. The man called Elephant Man because of his very very ugly face. He couldn't smile or laugh, his skin was dead, like an elephant's face. When he was in a show tent, hundreds of people in London came to see him, and laughed at him. The doctor tried to help him in the fearful situation.
Eventually, he was able to live at the back of the London Hospital thanks to the efforts of the doctor and the hospital. At first, he didn't understand the situation he was in, so he hoped to leave there, and wanted to live in a lighthouse because he had no money. However, when he heard that he could live there for all his life due to the contributions for him, he cried him him heart out in his room.
When 4 years had passed since he lived the hospital, he found dead on his bed. Elephant Man, John Merric, was 27 years old. During 4 years, he had experienced a lot of things. He met a number of people who don't laugh at him, and he made many friends who kind to him. Everybody dealt with him as a person, not a creature. When he sleeping, he usually sat up in bed with his arms round his legs, and his head on his knees, but when he was found dead, he had slept on his back like you and me.
I had known that the name of “The Elephant Man”, but I didn't know the concrete story of it. I couldn't believe the story the first time I read it. I had thought that developed countries in Western Europe have morals for human rights. However, people despised him, derided him, and they were scared of his looks. It is very very sad occurrence, I don't understand why they did discriminated him. They must not to judge a man from his outside. They had better see his mind. He is not a creature, he is just a human being.
Vicary Tim. (2000). The Elephant Man. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
I had known that the name of “The Elephant Man”, but I didn't know the concrete story of it. I couldn't believe the story the first time I read it. I had thought that developed countries in Western Europe have morals for human rights. However, people despised him, derided him, and they were scared of his looks. It is very very sad occurrence, I don't understand why they did discriminated him. They must not to judge a man from his outside. They had better see his mind. He is not a creature, he is just a human being.
Vicary Tim. (2000). The Elephant Man. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
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