"You spend hour after hour, on your own, driving across the country, centre to centre, hospital to hospital, sleeping in overnights, no one to talk to about your worries, no one to have a laugh with." (pg. 207)
The above passage employs parallelism by repeating different words again and again while describing the life of a carer. In this passage, parallelism is important because it shows how repetitive and boring a carer's life is. At this point, I'm becoming mystified as to EXACTLY what a carer does; they seem to me to be a bit like a hospice worker. They help provide comforts and company to the dying. Couldn't that sentence be an accurate job description for a hospice worker OR a carer? Kathy seems to appreciate her job more than I would expect; it seems depressing to do nothing but comfort the dying and wait for your own moment. It also has me wondering, do carers really have any affect at all on whether a patient lives or dies? They don't seem to be doctors or have any medical training at all, for that matter. Yes, companionship can keep the dying going. But carers don't have any decisions on medical matters, so how important are they, really? I suppose we'll have to find out!
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