[Don’t neglect the ending, even if you are uncertain of its meaning] The short story does not end with a clear indication of the woman’s decision. When the American returns from taking the bags to the other side of the train station, he asks her if she feels better, to which she replies: “I feel fine...There’s nothing wrong with me. I feel fine.” Her response potentially reveals that she wants the child, that she is not sick and in need of fixing; she has looked to the fields of growing wheat, the river running through the forest, and she is content with her state of being. Conversely, perhaps she is fine with the decision to terminate, though Hemingway obviously did not intend a straightforward conclusion to a complex situation.
Peter Shawn Taylor’s article, “The trauma of high school gym class”
https://www.macleans.ca/society/health/the-trauma-of-high-school-gym-class/
[The analysis begins by identifying the title and author of the piece] In his article, “The trauma of high school gym class,” Peter Shawn Taylor investigates the varied experiences adults recall having in high school gym class, and the effects of those experiences later in life. [The structure of the analysis can follow the logic of what is being summarized; here the analysis acknowledges the personal anecdote the author provides] He begins the article with his own accounting of what he calls “gymnastics self-humiliation,” which, he writes, “engendered a particularly virulent form of dread in my teenaged self.” [Analysis should include direct references throughout, and it is important that they be copied word for word] Taylor connects to his own negative memory to a larger community [this leading phrase shows the reader sees the connection], and potentially the reader also, of adults whose “negative recollections” of gym class “linger long into adulthood.” His recounting of personal experience generates sympathy from his audience. [This previous sentence shows the analysis understands the function of why the author decided to use a personal anecdote]Furthermore, Taylor indicates that the negative feelings many adults harbour towards their high school gym class may affect them in more significant ways. [Again, focus on and show an understanding of the evidence the author has used] He draws upon academic research produced by Iowa State University in Ames, that reports of a “deluge of ‘vivid and emotionally charged memories of events’,” as indicated by over a 1,000 adults polled.[This next sentence evaluates the strength and purpose of Taylor’s use of evidence] Taylor produces a balanced analysis of those adults who weighed in on the poll; not all adults remember gym class as negative. Those students who were athletic and proficient in various sports enjoyed being the top of their class and in performing successfully in front of their peers. Taylor cites one former jock who recalled: “‘It was empowering to me for everyone to see that I could do something better than them’.”
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