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Job 3

 When I was in the hospital getting ready for surgery because I had an infection several years ago, I remember being scared. One thing this story reminded me of, is how I was told to think of very positive things to help keep my mind calm when I otherwise would've felt very upset. I remember my mom telling me to imagine lying on a calm and peaceful beach with the sun shining. It's interesting how much this can help people. So much of our feelings are created by what our mind thinks about. This is why the Bible tells us in Phillipians 4:8  Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise,  think about these things. Farguahr was not unwise to think on beautiful things as he was being hung. Even in his last moments he was able to hold onto hope and dwell on positive things. 
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What do you think might have inspired the author to write this short story?
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 "He was now in full possession of his physical senses. They were, indeed, preternaturally keen and alert. Something in the awful disturbance of his organic system had so exalted and refined them that they made record of things never before perceived. He felt the ripples upon his face and heard their separate sounds as they struck. He looked at the forest on the bank of the stream, saw the individual trees, the leaves and the veining of each leaf—he saw the very insects upon them: the locusts, the brilliant-bodied flies, the gray spiders stretching their webs from twig to twig. He noted the prismatic colors in all the dewdrops upon a million blades of grass. The humming of the gnats that danced above the eddies of the stream, the beating of the dragon-flies’ wings, the strokes of the water spiders’ legs, like oars which had lifted their boat—all these made audible music. A fish slid along beneath his eyes and he heard the rush of its body parting the water" (Chapter 3)  I thi
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