Emergency

At first I thought that Emergency was a story about drugs and alcohol, but after the second time of reading the story I realized that it has deeper meaning. The story, to me, is about someone finding out who they are and wanting to change. The first mentioning of Georgie is when he is mopping up blood in the emergency room crying. The narrator of the story seems to be confused as to why Georgie is crying, but he never fully understands the meaning to Georgie's sorrow. I believe that Georgie was unhappy with the position that he was in. I think that he knew that he could be so much more than the guy that mops up blood. Georgie even mentions later in the story that he "should have been a doctor," which supports my claim that he wanted to be more than what he currently was. 

I think that this story had a very interesting dynamic between drugs and there effects. The narrator, who works with and is friends with Georgie, seems to have a negative reaction to the drugs. Although the narrator can recall more of the events that happened during the time in which both he and Georgie were on drugs, the drugs seem to cause him to care less about life and detach himself from his surroundings, which cause him to later kill the baby rabbits. Georgie, on the other hand, seems to work better with drugs. Drugs cause him to retrieve the knife from the eye of the man, save the baby rabbits, and offer to save Hardee from war. 

I like the ending of the story where Georgie says, "I save lives." I think this is where Georgie accepts himself as who he is and is satisfied with what he has become.