Eeyore Eeyore Eeyore ( ) is a character in the "Winnie-the-Pooh" books by A. A. Milne. He is generally characterized as a pessimistic, gloomy, depressed, anhedonic, old grey stuffed donkey who is a friend of the title character, Winnie-the-Pooh. Eeyore appears in chapters IV, VI, VII, and X of "Winnie-the-Pooh", and is mentioned in a few others. He also appears in all the chapters of "The House at Pooh Corner" except chapter VII. His name is an onomatopoeic representation of the braying sound made by a normal donkey, usually represented as "hee haw" in American English: the spelling with an "r"
Illness as Metaphor Denis Donoghue of "The New York Times" gave the book mixed praise, describing it as "a deeply personal book pretending for the sake of decency to be a thesis." He added: Conversely, the literary critic and frequent Sontag detractor Camille Paglia described the book as "clumsy and ponderous, like a graduate-school seminar paper." Additionally, critics also brought up the argument that metaphoric thinking about diseases hasn't stopped research about disease from taking place and that humans deal with the reality of their lives through the help of metaphors. Illness as Metaphor Illness as Metaphor is a 1978 work of critical