People talk of rage, but The Use of Force shows it all. The girl we are introduced to as Mathilda is a true example of a truly angered girl pushed by sickness. She is sick yes but doesn’t want to get help. In most cases, children become aggressive when they are sick since they are filled with fear of being hurt even more. They tend to get aggressive to try to fight away the pain yet this does not help. In most of these cases, just like Mathilda, a sick child is easily irritated and has occasional outburst of emotions as they struggle to fight the pain. The speaker talks of Mathilda wanting to push away the people trying to help her away by attacking hem severely. Yes, she is frustrated and also stressed because of the pain. Maybe she wants the pain gone and that she returns to her usual playful life. However, children’s little minds perceive injections as being bad and so are the doctors using them. The first perspective we get of the patient is that it appeared as if she was humble and that’s why she was quietly seated on the father’s lap. Her parents are the ones who seemed distrustful and did not believe in the doctor. The speaker says that all they did was eyeing the doctor up and down, a sign that they did not have trust at all (Williams 56). The behavior of the girl can be connected to the distrustful as well as the words the parents use.Words, like he is not going to hurt you, makes a child to get the picture that doctors hurt people instead of helping. In other words, this instills fear in them, and they will always want to fight the doctors. However, the parents gain trust when they all undergo a struggle to open the girl’s mouth. The real definition of force is evident when the girl violently attacks the doctor almost breaking the glasses off. She does not want help yet she had heard that he was not going to hurt her, she knows someone can be hurt by a doctor and so the mother’s soothing words do not convince her. Fear makes people not only children act violently believing it is the only way to keep the enemy away. However, when the “enemy” is determined then the possibility of giving up is evident. The doctor does not give but persists to ensure he diagnoses the girl and saves her life (Williams 58). He had seen many little ones like Mathilda dying, and so he couldn’t lose the battle but save her even if it meant using force. Despite the hatred and anger that mounts in the doctor’s heart, he is optimistic, and he is pushed to make everything possible. He luckily succeeds to see the throat and the tonsil that the girl had been hiding (Williams 59).

Work Cited

Williams, William Carlos, and Bill McKibbin. The use of force. Associated Educational Services   Corporation, 1967.

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