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 …

…others. After summer the drug wore off all of them. All of the patients returned to the crippled state. Dr. Sawyer asked out one of the nurses and they went out for a cup of coffee. Dr. Sawyer and his staff kept working with the post-encephalitic patients, trying new drug treatments as they became available. Leonard and many of the other patients experienced brief periods of awakenings, but never as dramatic as the summer of 1969.