My Sister's Way

In William Carlos William's short story, a doctor uses force to diagnose a girl that doesn't cooperate. In real life this types of situation really does happen. I can tell an incident that might relate to this story. When I was a child my sister was determined to make me clean the house, do chores and do my homework. I didn't want to, I never did what she said even though she was bigger than me and had authority over me. I even mocked her and made her feel inferior to me. One day, she got furious and I had homework to do. As always, I didn't want to do anything, and my sister was loosing her patience. When I told her I wasn't going to do the homework, she hit me with my book and made me read it out loud. She forced me to write out the assignment and do everything right. Now I thank her because she taught me the importance of study and being responsible. The incident helped me get where I stand now and stand proudly.

“Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it's your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.”
― Lisa See

The Use of Force

"The Use of Force" by William Carlos William was an appealing story for me, it really has truth in it. The story tells us how people with authority use verbal and even sometimes physical force to control others without authority. In this case, a doctor is determined to find out an illness of a girl that is beautiful but fully ignorant and stubborn. The girl's attitude of not letting him do his job irritates him to the point he gets furious and starts to use physical force to open up her mouth so he could look at her throat and finally diagnose her sickness. Even though the doctor was angry and had pleasure attacking her, he was really worried about her health, but using physical force wasn't the right way to help her. The truth is, I think authority can't use force to make people do what they want. But as the author implies: "It is a social necessity" that when people are threat to authority or even to others, the use of force may be a last resolution.
Sometimes people are ignorant and don't reason. Like the child in the story, even though she knows she has a contagious illness that could kill her and affect others, she doesn't let the doctor, which has authority, diagnose nor help her. 

William Carlos William's "The Use of Force"