I saw how the article specifically relates to the main character in The Soloist, Nathaniel Ayers who suffers from the same disease. Both the article and the book try to illuminate mental illness and the effects it has on everyone around them.
Like Ayers, Jani has people around her who love her and want to help her, but she is having trouble fighting the illness. I found it shocking that such high doses of medication were not having as great of an effect on the voices in her head.
I feel that the article did a great job of portraying what it is like to live with Jani and what her situation is. The extremity of her schizophrenia caused her family to have to live in two separate apartments for fear that she would harm her younger brother.
The video was a great supplement to the actual story. The readers get a sense of just how severe her schizophrenia is and how great of an impact it has on her family. It also allows her parents to tell part of their story along with short question/answer periods with Jani. The reader can then see how the family interacts with each other and especially with Jani.
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