Activity 14: Surveying the Text

1. What do you know about Roger             Ebert? 

 Roger Ebert is one of the best movie reviewers of his time. He also watch 281 movies in ten months in one of his favorite movie theaters, which was the Lake Street Screening Room. Roger Eberts have lost track of the surgeries he has undergone since the first one, for thyroid cancer, in 2002, followed by the one on his salivary glands in 2003. After that, they disagree about the numbers and dates.cancer, and had his jawbone removed. Chaz Ebert, Roger Ebert's wife kept a journal of all the time that they spent in the hospital. So Roger Ebert had to communicate with his hands by tapping his nails to get peoples attention or by writing letters in his Palms. Roger now uses his thumbs to communicate whether or not he is ok. Two thumbs up means, he is ok and two thumbs down, he needs his full time nurse. Roger wrote hundreds or thousands of reviews. But he wrote his last one on April 6, 2013 on the movie "To The Wonder". He died two days after he released the information on how the cancer has came back to his body. 

2. What kind of writing do you think it is? 

 

This writing to me, was how Roger Ebert battled cancer changed his life In many different ways. One being not being able to talk.

3. Do you notice anything interesting about the way this text looks?

 I noticed in this interview that there wasn't a question and awser format that interviews usually go by.