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 but that all we have is metaphor—even in science—to understand the behavior of a disease that remains mysterious. The work was originally published as three long essays in the "New York Review of Books". Some of the more inflammatory language was slightly toned down for republication. For example, what Sontag originally called the "inimitable looniness" of Wilhelm Reich's language was softened to the "inimitable coherence". "Illness as Metaphor" has been regarded as one of Sontag's widest read and most celebrated works. "Kirkus Reviews" called it "a small, liberating book that could become the cancer patient's Common Sense." The literary critic