Blog Post 2.1
“I weighed less than one hundred pounds and was so thin it hurt to sit on a chair. I had fevers that clawed at my bones. I was so weak I crawled down the hallway to the bathroom. I lost all my hair, even those sweet little hairs on my toes.
It’s become mundane to lose one’s hair.” Robson 232 Paragraphs 8 & 9.
I love this transition. She takes her excruciating experience with chemotherapy and shows us what it did to her, how it affected her physically. She even makes the point of emphasizing the loss of hair on her toes, something that usually get taken for granted, and makes it an important detail. And she immediately follows it up by saying that it becomes mundane.
I think this is a very effective transition particularly because after reading the first paragraph there I was thinking about what other things I take for granted and that it takes a great shock to make me realize that I am indeed taking those things for granted. Then I read the following sentence and it shifted my mood. It made me think that over time everything becomes mundane, even the awful things like chemotherapy that literally change the way we look and the way we look at the world.
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