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"The Sound of Metal" explores acceptance and adaption to loss through Ruben, a drummer who loses his sense of hearing and struggles to let go of his past identity. Initially, he resisted by pursuing cochlear implants to restore his former life. However, after joining a deaf community led by Joe, he learns to find peace in silence and live in the present. While the community views deafness not as a loss but as a different experience, Ruben gradually realizes that adaptation means accepting his new reality rather than clinging to the past. in the end he removes his implants symbolizing his acceptance and the inner stillness he's found.

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True Biz' by Sara Novic and the sound of metal together explores the experiences people apart of the deaf community True Biz more on young adults and the sound of metal more on Older .In true Biz we see the experiences of a child born in a family with a parent who understands them and once who doesn't but both supportive while the other character Charlie is born in a family where her parents see disabilities as something that needs to be fixed and even making it known when they are thankful of their other child being born without any.while the sound of metal focuses on the life of an adult who wasn't born with a disability but also had a difficult support system but navigating through their problems and seeing their disability as something that can be fixed at first but later on accepting their new life

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I also agree with how Clare states that Ruben identifies with his music and how losing his music he was also losing an part of himself and how his journey and the challenges he faces helped into Turing into the person he was at the end realizing that being Deaf wasn't the end

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In the novel, Sara Novic highlights Each student's different experience of being deaf in a world full of hearing highlighting charlies experiences from living in a family where her parents chose not to learn signs and going through many internal and external challenges on her own, opposite of Austin who is in a family of people who doesn't believe that he needs to be fixed and are a big support system in his life and the benefit of His mother who is Deaf but his father is not and has the opportunity of sign and more information on the Deaf community beginning at a young age.

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The juxtaposition between the background sounds in the first scene and the muffled noises that Ruben hears after losing his hearing is an important point of contrast, establishing Ruben's reliance on hearing. I agree that Ruben attempts to continue his passion for music throughout the film, with the children and his eventual return to Lou.

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I agree with Catherine's notice that the two characters come from completely different backgrounds which shows the significance of the culture someone is raised in, and how that affects them later in life.

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I like the idea that you mention about the criticism of a cochlear implant. That is definitely a sentiment that is shared by characters in both True Biz and The Sound of Metal. It reflects a desire shared by many hearing individuals to try and "eradicate deafness." In the case of True Biz, those people were Charlie's parents. In the case of TSM, that is Ruben himself. Ultimately however, outside Deaf characters encourage the oralist character to embrace less oralist perspective

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I agree Charlie and February had different experiences.

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I like that you talked about how Charlie and Austin had completely different experiences but were still able to help each other.

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Response to Lily's comment on question 2

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Response to Lily's comment on question 2

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I agree with what you said about music being the center of Ruben's identity and how him becoming Deaf forces him to confront his sense of self.

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Response to Catherine Point under True Biz Questions

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I like how your idea incorporated Austin and Charlie in how they had different experiences as they came from various backgrounds of being exposed to deaf culture. Charlie's family wants to cure deafness with Kohler implants, whereas Austin's family embraces them.

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Tony's comment on cochlear implants in True Biz is insightful. He brings up how the implants not only cause physical distress, and a sense of self-hatred for having a disability but also how the implants do not fully solve the issue of hearing. Despite her implant, Charlie can not hear very well, but she grew up attempting to be hearing. She finds herself in a limbo between two worlds, and at the beginning of the next, she struggles with her identity. We see something very similar happen in The Sound of Metal, where Ruben is disappointed with the implants, and can still barely hear. He is shunned by Joe for going against the community that he had built and struggles to re-integrate into a hearing world. He only finds peace after taking out his implants, and embracing who he is.

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Claires comment about the sound of metal.

I agree with what you said, and I like how you added how Ruben and the deaf child made music, and instead of being able to listen to it, they were able to feel it. Showing that just because they have a disability does not mean they have to enjoy their hobbies any less. Their disability makes them find a different way around life instead of the "normal" way.

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Response to Katie's point under True Biz Questions

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I really like your idea about how incorporating the perspective of hearing family member of a deaf person to show the benefits of cochlear implants and how they allow deaf people to retain good communication with their loved ones.

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In what ways does "The Sound of Metal" explore the concept of acceptance and adaptation to loss, both for Ruben and other characters?

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Music plays a central role in Ruben's identity. How does the film explore the connection between music and his sense of self?

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Nović shows so many varied examples of d/Deaf families and childhoods, from Charlie’s ambivalent parents, to Austin’s celebrated generations of Deaf folks, to Kayla’s experiences code-switching from Black ASL to ASL, to the horrifying abuse Eliot suffers at his mother’s church. Compare and contrast the experiences each student had growing up, and how those experiences impacted them. How do these portrayals expand your understanding and experience as a reader?

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How does True Biz explore the ways the experiences of Deaf children, teens, adults, and elderly people differ? Compare and contrast these portrayals in the film The Sound of Metal too?

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The conversation around cochlear implants can get thorny quickly, which Nović illustrates throughout the novel with lines like “She’s read about . . . parents deemed negligent for opting against surgery” and “Isolation was a requirement of the implant, her doctor cautioned.” For Charlie, a defective device and poor instruction from doctors and parents leads to “oral failure” and a host of other issues. What other issues does the novel or additional outside readings raise about the controversy over accessing these devices? How does the novel present only “one side” of the argument?