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Preface - Chapter 1

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Sontag, Susan. Illness as Metaphor. McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd, 1977, 1978. Hardcover.

· In the Prelude, Sontag compared life to two kingdoms: the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick.

· Everyone had citizenship in both kingdoms, but people preferred to use the passport for the kingdom of the sick.

· Unfortunately, everyone would have to be a citizen of the kingdom of the sick at some time in their lives.

· In her book, Sontag wanted to describe what it was like to “emigrate to the kingdom of the ill and live there” (3).

· Her subject was not illness itself, but rather how illness was used as a metaphor.

· She did not believe that illness was a metaphor.

· She felt that “the most truthful way of regarding illness—and the healthiest way of being ill” was...

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