Hearing Folk Need Not Apply

Sound and Fury represented two major Discourses: hearing folk and non-hearing folk. The movie showed these Discourses in opposition with eachother. They were shown in very different light.

The movie didn't seem to favour one over the other. It did a very good job of remaining impartial, except for one thing: it was made for hearing people. Because of this, it was put together in a way that benefitted hearing people more. An example of this is that the non-hearing people were recorded over and given the voices of hearing people. I know that this was partially meant to make them easier to understand. Most hearing people don't know sign language. Still, giving them the voices of hearing people, in my opinion, somewhat took away their own voices.

The main conflict in the movie was cochlear implants for children. As a rule, the main hearing people were heavily in favour of the implants while the main non-hearing people were, to varying degrees, against them.

Hearing people argued that children would function better in society if they were given the chance to hear. They felt that it was abusive to not give a non-hearing child the cochlear implant. They believed that the implant would save the child from the lonely and frustrating childhood they observed other non-hearing children have.

Non-hearing people disagreed. They believed that the child could function just as well without it. They felt that giving the child a cochlear implant would be tearing the child away from deaf culture. They also saw that it wasn't a perfect solution. Many children who got cochlear implants never fully developed speech and hearing.

The two Discourses viewed cochlear implants in entirely different light. Hearing people saw impants as a solution for the problem of a child not being able to hear. Non-hearing people saw implants as an insult to their culture.

I'd follow him with no problem, just as long as he didn't turn around. He's so intriguing. Something draws me to him; I just can't turn away. He traps me, paralyzes me in my own curiosity.
I don't know why I feel the need to follow him. I know the moment will come when he'll turn around. I know that moment well. In that moment my curiosity will turn to terror. My paralysis won't shatter; no, that would be too convenient.
We'll sit there and stare at each other until I work up the courage to walk away. Walk, because that's all I will need to do. Sure, he'll run, and sure, he has four times as many legs as I do... But as afraid of him as I am, he's only a spider... Right?