Jennings’s reflection and the history of the scars he observes starts when he says that scars tell stories. Occasions from Jennings’s childhood prompted him to go into detail, and as he does just that, he starts to realize just how scars can remind us that they shouldn’t be something to be ashamed of. As he goes on, we learn that Jennings’s find his own abdominal scars to reflective. Those scars remind him of how his life was so bravely saved by surgeons who cut him up and sewed him back up.
