This Battle Will Not Be Lost

Sandi Millwood, This Battle Will Not Be Lost (9-12-08), narrative, explains that love, determination, and will can defeat anything. Millwood writes of a mother that tells her personal experience with her daughter. The mother explains how one day she woke up to find her daughter not breathing. She is rushed to the hospital while the mother waits anxiously for the doctors to tell her something. Millwood describes, "my hands were sweaty and uncontrollable tears streamed down my face." The doctors tell the mother that her daughter has a tumor the size of a grapefruit and it is cancer, they rush her into surgery and thankfully she lives. The mother personally describes the struggles of her daughter having to do chemotherapy and losing her hair. This mother daughter relationship shows in the end if you fight you can do anything. With the love and strength of their relationship the finally defeat cancer, and the daughter is a survivor. Millwood conveys strength and determination through this story and captures the readers with an emotional theme, this makes the readers thirsty for more.