Both Uses of
paralysis
in
The Notebook
- Grim faces would prelude their predictions—"loss of speech, loss of movement, paralysis."†
- This, they tell me, is good news, for the paralysis could have been total.
*paralysis = loss of the ability to move the body
Definitions:
-
(1)
(paralysis) loss of the ability to move the body or a part of it
or:
inability to act or make a decision - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)