Amy Hempel The Harvest Analysis

Amy Hempel is an American short story writer and teacher born in Chicago, Illinois on 14 December 1951. She wrote several good stories, and “the Harvest” is one of them. Amy Hempel flash piece "the harvest" was developed with the use of backstory that foreshadows what is going on in the story. The technic employed in this short story elucidates how exaggeration can twist an entire event. She begins the story with a strong thesis by arguing at the first paragraph that "the first time she learned to say vase instead of vazh, a man nearly accidently killed her." This statement is where the entire event begins to morph. She later implies that “the man was not hurt when the other car hit ours”. That statement means that there is, at least, …show more content…
The time was coming for Amy to leave the hospital. Her injury started to heal while leaving a very enormous and ugly scar . Then again she felt the urge to exaggerate when she met a young boy on a beach who asked her about her scar. When the young boy asked if a shark did it, she directly responded: "Yes, a shark had done it ." She directly admitted it without further discussion. She probably didn’t want to remember the horrible scene that happened to her since her emotion still being tremendously affected. Amy agreed further that she left out much truth in this short story that if added would have spoiled up the intensity or vivacity on her fiction. She left out the detail that the accident involved a car and a motorcycle instead; she chooses to eradicate the motorcycle on her fiction which according to her sounded phonetically awkward to add such detail. She left to tell the detail of the young man’s profession with whom she had the accident. We know later that he was a newspaper reporter who worked for the local paper. She again fell to precise that this man, whose the motorcycle was, was not a married man. They were heading to for dinner on the top of the mountain Tamalpais when the accident happened. The man got married to a fashion model just after the cra sh. The girl that man married was worth millions of dollars. The second week she spent in the hospital, she experienced an attempted breakout from a prison which was five minute from the hospital. Three guards were killed that night and other s who were stabbed in the neck directly come to aid in the hospital where she was. “Police were stationed on the roof of the hospital with rifles; they were posted in the hallways, waving patients and visitors back into their