... . Warren, Sylvia's brother was born April 1935, concidently around this time Otto Plath's health took a serious turn. He believed he had cancer like a close friend who had recently died from lung cancer. When Sylvia 8, her father passed away of Diabetes Mellitus (insulin dependant diabetes) out of ignorance, since insulin was discovered 20 years earlier by Fred Banting and Charles Best in 1920. At ... learned that living where she did in Winthrop, Massachusetts, Sylvia Plath had a great understanding and a passion for the ocean. In these lines, I believe that Sylvia is comparing her fath...

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