Radiation and Loss of Control

Radiation exposes Lisa to intense feelings of vulnerability. Her naked breast is specifically targeted. She becomes lost, with no sense of control over her existence. 

A newspaper headline reads "BEWARE, PUPPETEER LOOSES CONTROL"with a photo of an angry Lisa surrounded by a heap of tangled marionette controls. A marionette of Lisa freaks out and turns the radiation guns on a line up of teddy bears wearing pink ribbons that decorate many of the waiting rooms she has been sitting in day after day as radiation has worn her down. Later a marionette nurse is surprised when Lisa refuses to take off her clothes and change into a hospital gown.  

Lisa finally finishes her last radiation treatment and gets her graduation certificate. She writes a cynical poem referring to her degree as second degree burns and her gown as a hospital gown. The scene ends with the human Lisa burning her certificate.

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