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A 4 page paper which disputes the aphorism with support from two short stories, Richard Selzer’s nonfiction piece, “What I Saw at the Abortion” and Joyce Carol Oates’ fictional tale, “Jorie (and Jamie).” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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aspects of fear and reviles it as being counterproductive. It implies that fear leaves the person in its grip paralyzed and unable to cope with life. Fear must
be fought as a way of releasing the soul, as a kind of liberation. Human existence is a struggle to live - to survive in a world fraught with
difficulties and unknowns. From the moment of conception, life itself is a mystery - something to be both embraced as well as feared. While fear may have a
crippling effect on the soul, it also forces a person to pause and think about what it is that is frightening him or her. In such a moment, clarity
and insight may be achieved. Richard Selzer is a physician and also an accomplished short story writer. In his harrowing tale, "What I Saw at the Abortion," Selzer recounted
his observations while witnessing an abortion being performed on a young Jamaican woman in her twenty-fourth week of pregnancy. Selzer begins rather matter-of-factly by explaining, "I am a surgeon.
Particularities of sick flesh is everyday news. Escaping blood, all the outpourings of disease - phlegm, pus, vomitus, even those occult meaty tumors that terrify - I see
as blood, disease, phlegm, and so on... I am used to seeing" (Selzer, 2005, p. 636). He assumed that the abortion experience would be for him just like any
other ordinary surgical procedure. But, suddenly, he exclaimed, "I see something! It is unexpected, utterly unexpected, like a disturbance in the earth, a tumultuous jarring. I see
something other than what I expected here. I see a movement - a small one. But I have seen it. And then I see it again.
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