In the essay Dissection, Ringler uses very dark language to express this scary and painful time in her life. The first sentence in the essay is very informative and explains to us exactly how shes feeling and what is going on. "In the dark of night, at the age of forty-one, I should have been nestled in my husband’s arms, listening for my daughter’s even breathing in the next room. Instead, I lay on my bed, very still, eyes tight, my face pressed to the sheet, thoughts focused on just continuing to breathe. I had never felt such pain." I also liked when she repeated the idea of not being sick. "I can’t be sick. I will not be sick. I refuse to be sick", I think that when she repeats this idea it gives it more power and how she is NOT going to be sick. Ringler also talks about how she feels after what the doctor has said and the language she uses is simple. but i like the punctuation which helps empasize some words. "I know I should have felt relieved to have an answer, but instead, I felt angry. I did not want to hear his words. Until this moment, everyone had been smiling and hopeful. All of the tests had been negative. This doctor was serious and unwavering and was telling me I needed brain surgery. " In this quote specifically the words "I felt angry" and "All of the tests had been negative" and " I needed brain surgery". These grouping of words seems powerful because shes getting her point across and she made them the most important so we really get whats going on.
In the next essay I read "Letting Go" Ringler has a connection with Gloria a patient in the hospital she was working at and when she dided Ringler was very upset and felt that it was almso ther fault. "I began coming to work early and leaving late" Ringler was willing to give up her time to spend it with Gloria and learn about her and willing her to live because she was only 24. "The hospital gown, so easily changeable when soiled, took its place. Gloria could hardly breathe or swallow. A small sip of water dribbled down her chin. Her eyes were wide with the inability to get air The tumor was growing and there was no treatment. Our goal was to provide comfort and support". This shows how helpless Gloria was and how it touched Robyn's heart. I think that this essay was good and it had power in a different way. It wasn't angry like "Dissection" was it was sad and helpless knowing that she couldn't do anything because she would die no matter what.
As I was reading "Hanging with Horses" I was smiling and laughing to myself. I used to horseback ride a few years ago and I can relate to her feelings. I know what its like to look down and it to seem like you are 20 feet high. I love the humor in the way she wrote the essay. "My breath quickened as I imagined Dan running away with me suspended at his side. I looked for Lily to help. But, when she saw me dangling by my bra, she took a step back and scanned the ring to see if anybody was watching. " I think this is so funny because I can imagine it happening to me and my mom. Her simple language makes it funny like " running away with me suspended at his side"."I learned then that an adolescent girl will not help a half naked mother hanging from a horse. When she saw my bare breasts, Lily turned her back and started walking toward the door." this also made me laugh becaus like the other two its a different type of power, its the type of humor where shes getting the story across in a different way. Im sure she could have looked at the anger in this essay but she didn't and I think thats why I liked it.
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