Awakenings

Awakenings The movie starts in the 1920’s. There is a young boy named Leonard Lowe. He is a very smart boy who always gets good grades and he loves to read. He suddenly starts having a slip in his behavior and his schoolwork gets worse. This is because he contracted the disease encephalitis. The next scene is modern times for them, and takes place in the Bronx, in 1969. It takes place in a mental hospital where a man named Dr. Sawyer is looking for a job. He used to be a research doctor and now is going to work in this mental hospital, even though this is not his area of work. Dr. Sawyer really cares for the patients, and most of them have encephalitis, which is a disease, contracted from mosquitoes that put the patient in a catatonic state. That means they are in an unconscious state, but the heart works, but there is not any movement. Only certain things will bring out a reaction in these people. For instance, Dr. Sawyer can throw a ball at them and they react by catching the ball. When the ball comes they stick out their arm and catch it, but once awakening, sawyer, patients, leonard, drug, dr, out, takes, state, one, l’dopa, disease, ball, wanted, said, put, never, named, hospital, going, everyone, because, worse, work, times, thought, things, summer, starts, staff, small, same, really, reaction, place, patient, own, originally, orange, once, off, normal, next, modern, mental, liking, kept, juice, happen, gets, even, encephalitis