klass response

The use of these two characters is to help move Klass’ story along. It betters a story when using examples. Sometimes when telling a story and you think no one is following you throw in an example that almost everyone could relate to and begin to understand. Klass uses his mother as an example of being an outsider who would never understand the jargon of doctors. This proves that she too, like him in the beginning, is out of the loop and doesn’t understand. On the other hand, Mr. E knew a lot of the terminology and jargon, but forced it and wasn’t using it on a good basis. He overly used it. Klass talks of characters from both inside and outside the medical community to show a more dramatic point to his story. The people on the inside understand the jargon and if he only spoke of them it would be as if he only spoke the language, not joined (understood) conversations. He includes in and outside characters letting the audience know that he truly does understand the jargon and can be included in conversation.