Up until where I have read, Jane Stern uses a simple and informal language to inform us about her experiences of becoming an EMT. She uses emotional language because in certain scenes she expresses a lot of negative feelings, especially when she gets jealous of this athletic woman because she is not physically fit herself. Because of this kind of language, her stories, scenarios, and flashbacks are credible. Overall, her use of language makes me feel she is nervous, anxious, and worried all the time. Because of my feelings, I realize that she has not failed to prove her point of saving herself by becoming an EMT because she has several psychological problems, including anxiety. Stern writes exactly what she is thinking, which makes me evaluate her as a reliable author, since all her thoughts are openly presented. For instance, in one of her classes, they have a physical therapist come in to teach them how to lift patients who are unable to move. Stern thinks that this guy is extremely cute, even though she is already married. Not only does she think he is good-looking, but she is somewhat sexually attracted to him. When the guy asks for a volunteer to play the role of an injured person, she raises her hand like a little kid. She writes how the reason she raised her hand like a youngster is because she is hoping that he would lift her, lie on top of her, or even make out with her. Since a person's thoughts are his or her own privacy, I did not expect a woman aged fifty two to have thoughts like this, and on top of that write about it.
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